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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights.

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Why Hiring Senior Leaders Early Is Worth the Investment

OpenView Labs

To get the team started we hired several junior developers. Does a new senior member have the right to challenge a historical decision made by a junior developer? We needed a CTO. If the challenges around hiring a senior developer late in the game are high, hiring a CTO can be even tougher.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

SaaStr

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Automattic is a web development company best known for “Wordpress.com”. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. Loving our podcast content? Yep, we did that.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. When we were acquired in 2016, it was about 30,000 employees.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage. of the $3.5M