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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. And where you were spot on is that this is not a review site. Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? Are they hiring?

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

SaaStr

Netflix’s 10+ years to 100MM) Time to 100MM users: ChatGPT (2 months), TikTok (9 months), Instagram (2.5 Internet’s 23 years to reach this level) Why This Matters for B2B: Unlike previous tech waves that started in Silicon Valley and slowly diffused globally, AI hit the world simultaneously. Token Costs Collapsed 99.7%

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

.” Here’s a summary from phind.com , a ChatGPT-backed web search similar to (but better than, in my opinion) Bing Chat: In the Expanse series, “the churn” is a term used to describe the cycle of chaos, change, and upheaval that the characters face due to various factors such as political, social, or criminal turmoil.

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QBR (Quarterly Business Review) vs. EBR (Executive Business Review): And the Winner Is…

SmartKarrot

While some may be doing these reviews, the bottom line is whether they are necessary. Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? The Quarterly Business Review is a quarterly business meeting where stakeholders meet to discuss KPIs and goals. Whatever suits the customer would be the right time. What are QBRs?

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How to Use M&A as a Tool to Accelerate Growth Feat. Insight Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. One other thing would be talent pickup.