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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. You’ll probably want to include Contract Labor – R&D for any product-related contractors you work with.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Is there hiring decisions? If you’re hiring right now, I think it’s extra important to have the hiring criteria all the way down to specific things you’re looking for, for a candidate or red flags documented, so that everyone is super tightly aligned. .” Is it like a weekly update to the whole team?

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. This is a framework I use.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. It’s that simple.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Brian and Dharmesh started the company out of MIT Sloan, so who did they hire?