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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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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. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners, ActiveCampaign, Insight Squared, and Dropbox — June 29, 2019

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Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Is it best to start at enterprise and work down to SMB or does SMB and work up to enterprise work best? When does SMB pricing turn into enterprise and mid level pricing and so much more. How do I increase them?