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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together.

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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. At what scale does that become impossible? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Loving our podcast content? What are the drivers of its death?

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. So Gartner says 2018, the SaaS market is over $73 billion dollar, it’s growing very, very quickly. And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? How can you automate?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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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. in debt to buy out their investors.

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The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. They wanted a one-call close. So what’s the break line?

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.