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The Irreplaceable But Toxic Employee

SaaStr

So there’s a pickle a lot of you will get yourselves into. That critical team member, that you just have to have, that you need — that’s also toxic. I remember when it happened to me. In my first start-up, there were literally only a handful of engineers who understood our technology. The best we made our CTO. The second best, “William”?

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Mean Reversion: When Will Startup Investing Return to Normal?

Tom Tunguz

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously. When a collapse follows a surge, mean reversion suggests behavior should revert to a reasonable baseline. By building a linear model we can hazard a guess of when that might be. The blue line shows actual Seed, A, & B activity by quarter.

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My App Stack: Carin van Vuuren, CMO of Greenhouse

SaaStr

“My App Stack” is a new series where we dig in with top CMOs, CROs, CTOs and CEOs on just what apps they’re really using to run their business. I always learn a lot from these — they are in essence a best practices list from each leader. This week we have Carin van Vuuren up, CMO of Greenhouse. #1. What’s your core stack of apps today?

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Modern Content Marketing: Your New Growth Flywheel

Sparktoro

Many of us know the classic content marketing strategy to a tee.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Workshop Wednesday with Justworks’ CRO, Loom’s CEO and Co-Founder, Rippling’s CEO and more!

SaaStr

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The SaaStr MiniGuide to Pitching, Raising and Closing VC Funding Business Disputes: You Always Lose 5 Top Tips to Drive Down Churn in The Early Days Top 10 SaaStr Tips for Founders & CEOs The 10 Habits of Unsuccessful Entrepreneurs Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Three Marketing Lessons from The Political Realm

Kellblog

Silicon Valley marketing communications are, simply put, not the major league. By comparison to Washington, DC and political communications, we are AAA baseball [1]. In fact, to be less kind, if DC communications are the major league, you could argue that consumer marketing is AAA, and we in Silicon Valley are only AA. We play for the love of the game [2].

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How to Use the Build, Measure, Learn Loop In The Product Development Process

User Pilot

The build-measure-learn process is a fundamental part of the lean startup methodology introduced by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup.” Over time, companies across different industries have used it as a valuable tool for building successful products. Read on to see how to apply this framework at every stage of your product development cycle and drive product growth.

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Proactive Customer Service: What is It and How to Do It [+ Examples]

User Pilot

Proactive customer service goes beyond solving problems. With customer service, we often think about solving problems as they come. But, its actual purpose is to prevent problems from happening—leaving little friction in the customer experience. So if you want to learn about how to apply and practice a proactive service without spending too much time, keep diving into this article.