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9 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Tom Tunguz

They have been written by salespeople, CTOs, speechwriters, consultants and magnates. 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. They range from written 70 years ago to written in the past 3 years. and building a startup.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. We’re on iTunes.

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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]. The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

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

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?