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

Sales Hacker

Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified. Be aware that it might not check all the boxes from a compliance/security standpoint. Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Raised seed in 2013. Founded in 2013. Raised seed in 2013.

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Kellblog 2021 Predictions

Kellblog

Leadership matters. And if that’s not all confusing enough, why do I hear like 5 different definitions of data governance and how does that relate to compliance and privacy?”. So, with that charitable scoring, I’m 7 and 3 on the year. We do this for fun anyway, not the score. Kellblog’s Ten Prediction for 2021. To quote Edward R.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. I got my masters in Computer Science and I had different roles since I joined tech companies in 2013, in different roles: product, design, engineering.” Again…Why? Else : “Yeah absolutely.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

We’re proud to do our part in trying to lead a focus into this area and then fulfill that leadership with a real brand promise and real measurable outcomes for every one of our customers. We’re in the very early innings of a huge market and it requires leadership, and it requires incredible tech.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

But as strange as it sounds, before maybe 2013, it was hard to do a call center in the browser, right? Literally in 2013, as strange as it sounds, this was a segment of the marketplace running on flash, and running on weird technology. Here’s some stats we launched in 2013.” Tiago Paiva: Yeah. That is true.

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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Kevin : I joined in 2013. Dannie : What the early Slack team did very elegantly with Stewart’s leadership is, design a product that is so intuitive and so frictionless to sign up for, that it can add value from the get-go. Following 10 years at Salesforce, I joined Dropbox for four years.