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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Lessons from the Best & Worst Deals (00:05:03) To succeed in today’s rapidly changing business landscape, startups need an ultra-committed binary team, especially two co-founders with an insane level of commitment. The Qualities of Great CTOs (00:15:54) To identify great CTOs, it may take interviewing 20 candidates.

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The Founder’s Guide to Developer-led Growth with WorkOS (Video)

SaaStr

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period.

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9 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Tom Tunguz

Instead I’ve written a blog post about the nine favorite books I’ve read over the last five years have helped me understand startups and the processes that make them successful. Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021

Unbounce

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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10 key lessons SaaStock18 attendees picked up

SaaStock

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Full post.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.