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The Top 5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg, Balderton Capital Executive-In-Residence (Pod 574 + Video)

SaaStr

generate momentum, they will inevitably need to scale up. For whatever reason, the company is ready to exit startup status and prepare to scale-up. Dave Kellogg, Executive-In-Residence at Balderton Capital, breaks down the most common mistakes companies make when going from startup to scale-up.

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What is an Online Terminal and Why Do Merchants Need One?

Stax

By leveraging online terminals, merchants can enhance their operational efficiency, expand their market reach, and provide an enriched customer experience. For eCommerce companies and other types of businesses with online booking or subscriptions, it’s essential.

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Empowering Your Business with Stax Bill: A Comprehensive Guide to Billing Platforms

Stax

This subscription billing platform helps businesses improve accountability with clean and accurate books by eliminating the need to manually handle complex tasks. Efficiently manage payments and invoicing processes, reducing manual errors and enhancing overall operational efficiency.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. Weak-Leak and Strong-Link Thinking The idea of weak-link and strong-link thinking was first popularised in The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong , a book written by Chris Anderson and David Sally.

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Drata vs Vanta Compared: Similarities and Differences 

Scytale

By minimizing compliance violations and turnaround time for compliance requirements, organizations can bolster their operational efficiency and risk management capabilities. Simplified Audit Processes Traditional compliance processes are known to be complex, messy, tedious, super time-consuming and admin-intensive. What is Drata?

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70. was a book called “The Phoenix Project” , written by Gene Kim.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

These companies can scale really efficiently. When you look at sales efficiency as measured by magic number, it’s quite good. And they do on operational efficiency frankly and our value proposition at Coupa has always been to help companies become more operationally efficient. David Schmaier: Sure.