OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

Throughout all of my experience at early-stage growth companies, there’s been an overarching theme: From inception, it’s the people you attract, hire, train, promote, and “communify” who enable and accelerate your time to market and your customer acquisition and satisfaction. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. On the other hand, PLG companies are introducing sales teams and processes to deal with being pulled upmarket as their existing customers grow. .

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 97

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. If you enjoy the it, check out more episodes.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 120

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open-source communities typically fall into one of two buckets: user communities or developer communities.

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Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52