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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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SaaStr Podcast #343 with Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz

SaaStr

Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. Guru lets your team capture information instantly, wherever it surfaces, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, Microsoft Outlook and Teams, and more, without ever leaving their workflow. So lots and lots of questions there, burn rates, your targets in 2020, how is your team doing?

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Alex: I don’t know.

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

SaaStr

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. And then what’s your unique advantage as a company, as the team? Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development.

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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

We are post-term sheet moving along diligence. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. They know everyone, and if they don’t, someone on their vast team does. Like if you have a three people in a team, what do you think that is recession proof right now? Nathan W (@nwenzel): Yeah.

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