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

SaaStr

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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What are the biggest mistakes first-time startup founders make, and how can they be avoided?

SaaStr

Even if you don’t like sales, or big companies, or whatever. Not hiring a good enough CTO. But if you hoped to sell to cool tech companies, and you end up selling to government somehow — embrace it. If you never thought you’d sell to sales reps, and even sort of hate sales, but that’s your core customer — embrace it.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. It was an iPad interactive brochure and sales tool for sales centres. Sima Banijamali – Sr. I knew nothing about tech.

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Whose Company Is It Anyway? Differences between Founders and Hired CEOs

OPEXEngine

However, VC investors are material shareholders, typically negotiate the contractual right to sit on the board of directors, and have certain governance and fiduciary duties as a part of sitting on the board. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. However, some do [5]. Maybe it wasn’t a great idea.

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Security at Intercom: How our InfoSec team protects our customers’ data and trust

Intercom, Inc.

Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. The team’s remit covers: security and abuse; governance risk and compliance; and IT. People, processes, and tools each introduce a degree of complexity – guaranteeing 100% security all the time, and therefore zero security incidents, is just unrealistic. .

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. The CRO leads Sales, Marketing, and Operations, plus often Customer Success.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up.