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Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify (Podcast 502 and Video)

SaaStr

Founders’ Personal Development & Relationships With Investors. Personal development for founders should be important to investors just as much as company success. Company Culture of Personal Development. The more I share, the more I think that I help myself out, and I think I help others.” .

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The Intense Power of a Strong Company Culture

Tom Tunguz

Redpoint partnered with 2U at the Series A, and they are now a $2B publicly traded education company that powers online degree programs for Georgetown, USC, Syracuse, Berkeley, and Yale, among others. It was an inspirational moment for me because I observed the intense power of developing strong company culture.

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SaaStr Podcast 447: How Asana Incorporates Customer Insights Into Product Development

SaaStr

Beth Toland, the Head of Experience Research at Asana, shares her tips for making your roadmap inclusive of customer needs and ways to use insights to improve your product development. The approach that Asana takes to product development and innovation relies on the double diamond framework. The Double Diamond Innovation Framework.

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How To Live Your Values While Building A Unicorn with Notion, Motive, and Incredible Health (Video + SaaStr Podcast 683)

SaaStr

How To Create Values For Your Startup For purpose-driven founders, how you live and honor your values when building and running a unicorn is powerful, not only for your company culture but also for the success of your business. Founders can use the strategies that make sense for them to develop their own set of company values.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

There's a lot of innovation advice out there, but very few companies are recognized for their innovation. Despite the importance of new product development, more than half of all product launches and innovations fail. Innovation advice will not work if your company's culture does not encourage it.

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Building a company to be proud of: Intercom recognized as one of the best places to work

Intercom, Inc.

Our products and platform have come a long way since Intercom was founded 11 years ago, and while our innovation is absolutely something to be proud of, we’re especially proud of the company culture we’ve built in tandem. Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022. s Best Workplaces 2022.

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Building a Values Playbook that Led to a $1.3B Exit with Emery Wells, Co-Founder & CEO @ Frame.io & VP, Digital Products, Adobe (Pod 558 + Video)

SaaStr

If you operate with your instincts as your primary guide, you’ll learn the importance of culture the hard way. Company culture is like an ecosystem that has to be nurtured to thrive, and values are a foundational element in a cultural framework. . The nine values outlined below reset the company culture at Frame.io