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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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How to Build a Product Customers Love and Drive Nearly $1B in Revenue Along the Way with Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki

SaaStr

They built one platform that does it all, but also made it simple so that these small businesses they wanted to serve, could actually use it to grow revenue without needing a developer that they didn’t have. The friend wasn’t very technical and asked Andrew to help him. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. Why is that?”

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? So I think it plays on both dimensions.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter

The Angel VC

I’ll be sharing a few specific observations from the S1 review, but let’s start with some more general thoughts about the company. Instead, I think that the right team has to hit the right opportunity at the right time. Dropbox's one big weak spot, in my opinion, is that the product is almost UI-less. It was pretty messy.

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Little Otter’s Rebecca Egger on making mental health care accessible to all

Intercom, Inc.

In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Helen Egger — launched Little Otter.

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