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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

Seeking financing from friends and family. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Hiring mistakes (at this stage bad hires can harm company culture). Find out that a problem exists before you dive into the deep end,” explains serial startup founder Leticia Mooney. Creating a minimum viable product (MVP).

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. Do you know what I mean?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

I’ve actually been a fanboy of the company and the story for a while as well, which I didn’t think you knew that before, but I do want to ask you now, it’s a wonderful world, the world of SaaS, but how did you make your way in and how did you come to found Lucidchart? Karl Sun: Oh, that’s a great question.