OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

years of arduous effort before they exit, according to data from Statista. 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. It’s a long road from idea to IPO. . Founders face an average of 5.7

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

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. At what scale does that become impossible? Why is this? What are the drivers of its death? How important is it to own the entire customer journey?

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SmartKarrot

MAY 19, 2023

Company culture maintenance: Maintaining a strong company culture becomes challenging when team members are dispersed remotely, hindering relationship-building and rapport among colleagues. This cultivates stronger customer relationships, even in a remote work environment.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 19, 2023

Company culture maintenance: Maintaining a strong company culture becomes challenging when team members are dispersed remotely, hindering relationship-building and rapport among colleagues. This cultivates stronger customer relationships, even in a remote work environment.

ChatGPT 10

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

How do you scale SaaS startups from the seed stage to mature industry leaders? 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. Protective Infrastructure —to protect internal data, systems, and people.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We’re going to learn so much about ourselves, about how we should and can run our companies, how we run our day-to-day lives. Jen Nguyen: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

My first real job was at GE Capital in Australia, and then I moved back to London and joined a company called Complinet, which was a back office compliance software company. It was ultimately acquired by Thomson Reuters, so a 200-person company got swallowed up by a 45,000-person company. How did you solve that?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. And so it was this thousand X increase in terms of the size of the company. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

Dharmesh Shah : As part of that exercise, I did some data collection, and we created this deck called the HubSpot Culture Code, which has exactly 128 slides. ” Katie Burke: So, at most companies, right? At most companies, employee feedback surveys are where feedback goes to die. It’s where data goes to die.

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