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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Karim Atiyah came to SaaStr Annual to share how they got this rocketship … off the ground. In 2014, Atiyah co-founded Parabus, a consumer-focused startup that automatically secured refunds when prices dropped on online purchases. ” SaaStr Take: Your early hires will define your company’s trajectory.

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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. Q: How Do You Get Sustainable Output In A Startup?

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Bet On Up-and-Comers. But Add One Veteran For Each $10m ARR.

SaaStr

The first type is the kind of management team hired by second+ time founders. They often staff up their teams with folks they already know and have been successful with at their last startup. And if you are, you are going to naturally start off hiring up-and-comers to your first leadership team. And that’s great.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . hiring in-house talent). For example, you hire a developer to move you over to an ERP like NetSuite. Mark was named 2019’s number one Small and Mid-Sized CEO by Comparably.

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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

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. I run that company for 4 years (bootstrapped) and got acquired in 2019. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was.

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: I’ve read a lot about difficulties in startups becoming SOC 2 Compliant.

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