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Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Can I Develop Confidence as a Startup CEO? But you need to be confident enough to lead the team and make everyone believe. Care about your team for real. Caring about your team and colleagues alone isn’t enough. Your team needs to look up to you. You need your team to believe in you.

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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

User Pilot

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Things May Snap Back Fast. So Take Advantage Of This Crazy World Now.

SaaStr

Most tradeshows and events in China are running at their maximum allowed capacity pre-Covid, with the delta being mainly from lack of travel. Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Underperformers found it harder to hide after Covid, and many have already left or moved on. Let’s take a look over in China.

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Connect and conquer ? build your brand by staging events

Intercom, Inc.

Of all the ways to get your message into the world, staging events might not seem like the most efficient or scalable. But that misses a few important qualities that only live events can offer. Events rely on difference. Staging events to remember. They’re now just called “events.” or “What could be different?”.

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The Path to CRO with TigerEye, CircleCl, Lattice, and Notion

SaaStr

Jane Kim, former CRO of CircleCl, Laurabeth Harvey, President of Field Operations at Lattice, and Erica Anderson, Notion’s CRO, all share the key decisions or events that shaped their careers. The highs and lows always come, usually involving the people on your team. Each of these CROs describes what their worst day is.

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Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Is That a Good Thing?

SaaStr

If a VP of Sales has a $500k+ OTE and a big team to manage, does it even make senses to sell courses on the side? In any event, here’s my rule: Disclose it. Owning an airbnb, doing a podcast, coaching a team, volunteering or trading cards – that’s a hobby and a side-hustle and very much encouraged).

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5 Things that Kill Startups with Y Combinator

SaaStr

Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel is featured in one of our most-watched SaaStr videos of all time — so we were delighted to have him back during our SaaStr at Home event to share the top 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds, and how to avoid them. Causes: Weak previous relationship. 5 Slow product development.