SaaStr
JULY 29, 2019
What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4. These are the Best of Times in SaaS, and by all means, if you are able to raise venture capital, and need it, raise it. But I see two big regrets in venture capital, and they are somewhat confusingly at different ends of the fundraising spectrum.
Intercom, Inc.
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.
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Kellblog
DECEMBER 27, 2021
My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.
Baremetrics
MAY 7, 2019
For example: Company A was funded by some of the founders’ savings, a small line of credit from the local bank, and profits from customers. Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team.
FastSpring
MARCH 10, 2023
Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I just had this idea.
Sales Hacker
AUGUST 4, 2020
Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire? How do you evaluate talent?
SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. They were growing at around 300% per year when they were at this scale, and so, with two years of cash in the bank and a 1.5X
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