Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

How long is a startup a startup? It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.”

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

David Sacks – GP at Craft Ventures, and this week I thought I’d wrap it up with Part 2 stemming from a great session with Spenser Skates , CEO and CoFounder of Amplitude. Justin Stackany CEO / Startup Advisor & Former CCO Hungry generalists who are uncomfortable being bored and secretly enjoy a little chaos.

Sales Hiring 89

Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 89

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 212

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 212

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Invest in your development internally and externally. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Hang Black.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr, the world’s largest SaaS community and leading early-stage SaaS fund with investments in Automile, TalkDesk, Algolia and more. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Three of the companies he founded went public and one was acquired.

Outsourcing Services 114

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 114

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. If rejected, how can startups do this in a polite and respectful way? How can startups give the appearance of a large company to enterprises?

Sales Hiring 221

Sales Hiring Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 221