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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Developing a robust forecast is imperative for your future success.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team?

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

In SaaS vs. marketplaces? We use a separate Jira project for the following reasons: Jira because it is well integrated into…Jira where we manage all our developers’ tickets. Assign the right priority to bugs and the right status for them to be picked up by developers today (for critical bugs) or later (for non-critical bugs).

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Best Free CRM Software

Neil Patel

HubSpot CRM – Best free marketing CRM Really Simple Systems – Best free sales CRM Agile CRM – Best free customer service CRM Flowlu – Best for SMB finance Apptivo – Best for basic business management. Free Customer Service CRM Software. The Top 5 Options For Free CRM Software. The Limits of Free.