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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth
MARCH 23, 2020
One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.
SaaStr
JUNE 7, 2021
If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.
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Clouded Judgement
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) Iceberg is an open table format developed by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks (2 of the 3 co-founders of Tabular) while they were at Netflix. This prevents bad data from leaking downstream.
OpenView Labs
JANUARY 12, 2022
Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. In fact, the team intentionally takes a non-dualistic approach that relies more on empathy, flexibility, and context than on the concept of right versus wrong. .
OpenView Labs
MAY 20, 2021
The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. A final comment on purpose: It should come from your team.
Outseta
JANUARY 20, 2020
In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. When I left Buildium five years later we’d grown from a start-up to a business with more than 12,000 customers and $16M in revenue.
Crafty CTO
APRIL 12, 2020
The Basecamp guys have been busy lately. Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book.
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