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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

SaaStr

5+ cofounders can work (I think of that as too many cooks, but now I see it can work). Cofounder conflict. But now I’ve seen many unicorns make it even with significant cofounder conflict in the early and middle days. Great CEO But Mediocre CTO. A mediocre CTO can’t keep up. It works for Atlassian.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . The risk in failing to comply with one state’s sales tax laws is that you could be subject to an intense audit where the state’s auditor scours your books for every instance of uncollected sales tax. .

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation?

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These 36 RevOps Leaders Have Something (Great) to Say

Sales Hacker

It’s not all technical. Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. Check it out.

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