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What were 5 distinct milestones that you encountered on the road to becoming a CEO?

SaaStr

Luckily, she worked in the same company and had co-invented the technology. To hire our CTO, our first VPE, etc. And to close $6m in customer contracts through founder-led sales. And to close $6m in customer contracts through founder-led sales. You don’t always need to raise money to do a start-up.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

The world of technology start-ups has been good to me—it’s provided for my family, it’s given me a wonderful amount of freedom to live my best life outside of work, and it’s been intellectually engaging and challenging throughout. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.

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PODCAST 65. The Framework to Deliver Exceptional Customer Success w/ Kim Rose

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Kim Rose , VP of Customer Success at Buildium. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. She’s the VP of Customer Success and Support at Buildium. Kim is a successful executive who spent 8 years out of the workforce.