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Point Nine Land
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. Building some level of repeatability in closing at least a handful of deals is the fuel that drives the entire business forward.
Chargify
APRIL 23, 2019
Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work. Seeking financing from friends and family.
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SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
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!
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
To date, Karl has raised $114M with Lucidchart from some of the best in the business including K9 Ventures, Meritech, Iconiq, GV and Kickstart in Utah. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? As a result of his success, Karl was recently announced as EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2020
343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked? What did not work?
Kellblog
JULY 21, 2019
(And it makes you think twice when you’re on the other end of that phone call – was the show bad or did we execute it poorly?) . The difference between a great show and a bad show is often, in a word, execution. I’m a huge believer in live events and an even bigger believer that you get back what you put into them. Work the speakers.
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