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

OpenView Labs

The exciting thing about prototypes is that large-scale experiments can be built through open-source projects , which companies like Netflix and Linkedin will do as a strategic way of recruiting top talent. . Why startup founders should treat fundraising like a sales funnel. Milestone: Selecting a price. What should you charge?

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

SaaStr

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. It was initially compliance focus. Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company.

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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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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

SaaStr

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

So, for those of you thinking, “Hey, I’m going wait on the ROI of our culture, or I’m going to wait to invest in our employee experience,” wait no longer. Companies that have great, happy, productive employees do better by every single return. Because not everyone has a background in these issues, right?