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Be Careful Hiring “Dualies” — Folks That Are a VP of More Than One Thing

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. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 9, 2020. Front-end, mid-end, back-end engineers of all sorts and types. Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds. Why join a start-up?

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Developers and Engineers! Here’s everything you CAN’T miss at this year’s Annual.

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Are you a developer coming to SaaStr Annual 2020 but afraid there might be not quite enough content for you? From large scale mainstage sessions to intimate workshops and even a dedicated lounge, we are carving out some of SaaStr Annual just for developers and engineers. The post Developers and Engineers!

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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

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From 41% in 2020 to 51% in 2021! Use overages to renegotiate contracts, not charge per event. Folks come out differently here, but while Amplitude charges per volume, in part, it doesn’t make a material amount from overages. 245 employees in Sales & Marketing — vs. 101 in Engineering / R&D.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

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We can’t believe it’s already November and there are only four months until SaaStr Annual 2020 , we’re already looking at an awesome speaker line-up this year. We’ll be back at the San Jose Convention Center, March 10-12th, 2020. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor.

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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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Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Audience Member 4: I have two questions for you, about when you had to cancel SaaStr Annual in 2020. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel. More likely than not, but barely.

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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

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Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. At the time, COVID-19 was in full effect, so sales opportunities aplenty were turned upside down. Have an action plan.