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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. Which role should you hire for first? One thing is the timing. Is it a time?

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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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. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

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10 key lessons SaaStock18 attendees picked up

SaaStock

This gives you four basic types of ideas: Scalable Growth: that’s the ideas you’re currently using as a foundation for your business model, they require a lot of company resources, but they’re tested and provide high ROI. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI. Full post. .

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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right?