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Katie Burke on company culture: building a better work culture

ProfitWell

Katie Burke, Chief People Officer at HubSpot , is a marketer-turned-culture expert. To her, culture is much more than a blurb in your job description. A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. While culture is something many companies try to do, getting it right takes a certain finesse. The top 9 mistakes companies make when it comes to culture. Compliance.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. So let’s start with the origin story of the company.

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

SaaStr

And at TEAMWERC, our mission is to deliver workplace as a service, helping companies navigate the company’s changing working environments. And companies are looking for guidance for us to pave that way. What never changes is that the space has to represent your culture.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. How do companies go through this journey? What about compliance?

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making. We work with many of the companies who are here at SaaStr, Salesforce, Slack, Twilio, Zoho, and I hope many of you in the room.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. To help companies of every size, yes, accept payments but also manage billing, tackle fraud, issue cards, and basically run your commerce side of your business online. They built their first company and sold it when they were teenagers.

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Empire Selling’s Dan Swift on using social media to drive sales leads

Intercom, Inc.

He’d go on to become the VP of Sales at Sprinklr, guiding the company through its own high growth period, before striking out on his own. Today with Empire Selling he’s helping B2B companies drive revenue and deepen customer relationships through digital and social selling training. Can you give us a quick rundown of your career to date and the types of companies you’re now working with at Empire Selling? The other part of it is culture.

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I hosted Elad on the podcast for a conversation that ranged from the key themes of his new book to scaling a healthy culture and ins and outs of mergers and acquisitions. Are people leaving the company?

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? And, nobody wants to cancel the company bonuses or worse, turn off an interested VC, because of a totally preventable sales tax disaster. .

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Cyber attacks have gone up 125% from the previous year, and with companies shifting to partial or fully remote settings, it shows no sign of slowing down. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand. SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide.

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Hiring Global Talent With Liina Laas of Deel

Chart Mogul

Deel, the payroll and compliance company, recently raised $425 million in series D at a valuation of $5.5 She focuses … Deel , the payroll and compliance company, recently raised $425 million in series D at a valuation of $5.5

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

A clever business model enabled the company to be “the fastest-growing software company on the planet,” he says. The company had created no guidelines for how it would operate. The Building Blocks of a Scalable Company. Company Culture.

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Going Global: Key Considerations to Drive SaaS Success Abroad

OPEXEngine

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. There is a clear distinction between fast growth SaaS vendors (over 50% annual growth) and slow growth companies (less than 25% growth) between $100M-$500M. By contrast, slow-growth companies reported 20% revenue from international business in 2020.

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Removing Legal Bottlenecks to Accelerate Deal Cycles

Sales Hacker

??. Contracts are the lifeblood of modern companies. Inefficient or incomplete processes can also lead to approval delays, decreased productivity, compliance issues, increased risk , and lost business due to dissatisfied customers. Risk mitigation contributes to the company’s revenue.

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Blueprint for Early Stage SaaS Companies [Webinar Recap]

SaaSOptics

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Healthy Churn , CAC , and ARR rates are all clear signs of success at early-stage companies.

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Best HR Outsourcing Services

Neil Patel

Handling HR for large companies is vastly different than doing the same at a startup or small business. As such, different HR outsourcing companies specialize in different things and offer services targeted to a specific type of customer.

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From Idea to IPO: All the Milestones Between You and the Public Market

OpenView Labs

To put that in perspective, if your company had a highly successful exit this year, you would have had to incorporate your business right as Apple released its first iPad. Additional resources on thriving past product-market fit: The SaaS company that accidentally grew to 800,000 users .

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. What do we believe in as a company in terms of where we want the product to be in a few years?

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