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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

This is also one of the least expensive (in terms of hard costs) things you can due to help the company scale in this phase, and beyond. At $8m in ARR, if you have $2m of cash in the bank, you get real nervous investing much more than $500k-$750k, $1m max. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. on the balance sheet.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. ” That was the catalyst for me to think about leadership and management. That was very exciting to me.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

The decision to invest is based on the founding team’s potential and their product’s potential to scale and become a significant market player. Vitor Torres shared his journey in founding Contabilizei and how they integrated accounting with banking solutions to provide a full-stack experience for their customers.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then it was just a matter of, okay, make sure that it works, make sure that it scales, then very important not to forget, make sure that people buy it, that they know how to find you, you know. en you start saying, scaling and what does that even mean? They’re really giving them money to scale the business. Vlad : Ye ah.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What were his core learnings from that? *

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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