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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Support sales early.

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5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company

SaaSX

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. Ideally, as a company scales, headcount doesn’t scale exactly in tandem. Ah…you know there can’t be a B2B software article that doesn’t mention churn, right?

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Founders: Before You Hire a Sales Team, Consider These Options

Sales Hacker

Hiring a sales team too soon can lead to issues like: Your team tries to sell a product to a market that doesn’t need it or want it. Your company incurs unnecessary expenses before figuring out product-market fit. Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive. You’ve got the connections and authority.

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CEOs x Coronavirus

ProfitWell

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

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The 9 best tools for your early-stage startup tech stack

Intercom, Inc.

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Mercury’s product also includes integrations, rules, and shortcuts that were engineered to help founders spend as little time as possible thinking about banking.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. We just were never going to get that headcount.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?