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Eoghan McCabe on the importance of authenticity in leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Our Chairman and Co-founder, Eoghan McCabe , sat down for a chat with Harry Stebbings on the Twenty Minute VC podcast to discuss his startup journey and the lessons he learned while building Intercom. What distinguishes good leadership from bad? So it’s scary, but it’s so rewarding.”. It’s not enduring.”.

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The 10 Keys to A Successful Board Meeting: How to Make Them Great and Not Something Everyone Dreads from Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Partner

SaaStr

One of the selling points of joining a startup over a big company is the additional ownership and impact that execs feel which is why including them makes sense. Having your board meet and interact with the senior leadership will also help the board give you advice on your team and org structure. .

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. To run a startup, you have to make bets. Mistake: Not parting ways well always In startups, relationships end. Maybe they are misunderstood. Maybe they need more coaching.

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

rates them on 3-Year Growth – a slightly strange metric for start-ups at all different stages), for SaaS and SaaS-ish startups: [note, the higher they are on the list, the faster they are growing on a % basis YoY]. #7 Where it Went: IPO’d in 2013, hit $250m ARR by 2016, a cquired for $1.8b in 2011 GAAP revenue. 78 Marketo.

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

Sales Hacker

Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Lyft is one of many companies that began as a small startup but quickly rose to a multibillion-dollar company. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten

SaaStr

His thoughts on leadership in a nutshell? “A YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. Y Combinator is a seed accelerator.

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PODCAST 180: Talent Retention with Whole-Person Benefits Package

Sales Hacker

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Hakim Myers , Business Recruiter at Nextdoor , where he recruits for people, finance, and legal functions for startups. The talent search in the startup environment. The startup environment & powerful employee benefits [12:25]. powered by Sounder. Head to Outreach.io/onOutreach