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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scaling from 2 to 200 Employees and 0 to 75,000 Customers with Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer and VP of Operations Lydia Kothmeier (Video)

SaaStr

They credit this growth to their global team, a switch to an enterprise business model switch, and flexible work operations. Hiring a global team to achieve the vision What do you do when your company’s location limits your access to talent? You spread your hiring net and draw in as much talent as possible. Self-service.

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Top 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling GTM Teams at Notion, Asana, and Dropbox

SaaStr

So, when you’re designing and building a product, think about the problems you’re solving for and the business models to support those products. If you’re lucky enough to find a problem to build a business around and put your first iteration of the product in place, there’s a way to put users on your team.

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My Top 10 Mistakes in 10 Years: Andy Byrne, CEO at Clari

SaaStr

Next up was Jason Cohen, founder of $100m+ WP Engine. A lot of young entrepreneurs are so earnest, they wear their strategy and business model on their sleeve. Before you know it, they’ve extracted a trove of valuable information about your company, and they’ve moved on before you’ve had a chance to ask your first question.

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7 Secrets to a Successful SMB Go-To-Market Strategy with PayFit Co-Founder and CEO Firmin Zocchetto and Accel Partner Philippe Botteri (Pod 576 + Video)

SaaStr

As a result, they’ve continued perfecting their marketing engine to support automatic or self-guided transitions to eliminate any final sticking points before a conversion. . As Zocchetto said, “It’s very important –– sales hiring planning –– because in a self-driven SaaS business model, it’s what drives growth.”.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. And then the next one that we best now is proving a business model. We have a still a big engineering, most engineering human in Brussels. We have a big engineering team in Poland. Teddie : No engineer.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. And we were like less than 10 million ARR and business was doing very well. And I met with Dev and I was telling him our business was doing very well and he asked me, “Why is it doing well?

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Move Thoughtfully and Create Things: Stripe’s 4 Steps to International Expansion

OpenView Labs

In payments, that’s even truer than anywhere: payment methods, financial behaviors, banking ecosystems and businesses are intensely cultural. Every new market has given rise to countless considerations and almost as many variables depending on your product type, business model, customer segments and other company-specific elements.