Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One key lesson we’ve learned from the best founders we’ve worked with is that they don’t need to learn the hard way by risking their businesses and employees. Building some level of repeatability in closing at least a handful of deals is the fuel that drives the entire business forward. If this doesn’t happen, the company is at risk.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

Did you know there are more than 30 million small businesses in the United States alone? With a number like this, small business owners need a competitive edge. If you are building a business, chances are you’re looking for ways to get your leg up on the competition. Google Analytics.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

  We welcome business owners and social media managers as well as creators (though we do have a dedicated space for creators in our #creator-corner). On The Colin and Samir show, they interview other successful creators (they even have a couple of videos with YouTube superstar Mr Beast ). 

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re CXO/VP-level, make sure you spend time with this team during your interviews [1] and make sure you think they are “good people” who you trust and who you’d want to work with for a long time [2]. Business Objects eventually sold for nearly $7B. You might well be doing so. Strong investors.

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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? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Karl.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Business starts with “busi” (23:00). ? This is all about those David and Goliath situations we all face early on in our business. If you think it’s hard to work at one of the world’s largest companies and close business, then you have not sold from a startup. We should probably do an interview together.

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