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

SaaStr

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 9, 2020. Anyhow the one thing I learned, beyond getting help screening and hiring for these positions from domain experts, is to look for Flags. For signs the prospective hire just won’t work out, no matter how strong they might look on paper. I’ve had to recruit Ph.Ds.

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

SaaStr

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. We have a 60% chance that we can do it.

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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)

SaaStr

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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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. Want to see more content like this session? Good afternoon.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Emilie : The way I see it, the bar is higher because on the … because of education, there has been a metrics war. So what we see when our companies are pitching to investors is that you know what metrics investors will open the email. Want to see more content like this?

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

The siloed management structure paralleled the key components of Operating Expense, making it easy to report backward-looking Income Statement expenses and recognized revenues, but not cross-functional customer and product lifecycle metrics, critical to managing a SaaS company. Chief Product Officer.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. The Value Metric: Optimize Your Pricing Strategy for High Growth. At the enterprise level, discounting SaaS contracts is expected, not optional.

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