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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. Pete’s also the author of Founding Sales , the canonical writing on early stage startup sales, and prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, which ended in the exit to Monster Worldwide in February, 2014.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software. million in 2014.). A SaaStr Classic!!

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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Of course, the software, we need to build something, which is very different in term of performance. Like search engine are very intensive in term of CPU versus the memory. We have to build everything from scratch in software to be able to have high availability. We were end of 2014. Is it realistic?

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