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80 Founders Share The Moment They Knew … When They Really Had Something

SaaStr

I recently asked on Twitter when folks knew their startup had something … great. What was the moment when you knew your startup was really doing something great? ” — Jason Riedel, founder/CTO of Aspireship. “When on New Year’s Eve, customers kept sending us signed contracts.”

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” In his podcast, Lenny interviews leading product experts to extract actionable advice related to building and growing successful products.

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

The founders named their startup JFrog because a frog is agile and always leaping forward. Yet the strategy was not to have a conventional startup. They included: Team and Culture : “In my opinion, having the right team and culture in place is the most important thing when it comes to building a startup. JFrog offered 11.6

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Hiring a Senior Executive? Ask These 3 Interview Questions

OpenView Labs

So I’m always on the lookout for provocative interview questions that help you learn much more about the person than just their canned answer to “What’s your biggest weakness?” Mixmax isn’t the only company that tries to talk new employees out of staying. “Learning” is the new “expertise.”

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

But it was super interesting that the two big interviews I did were with Ben Chestnut from Mailchimp yesterday and with Dharmesh and Brian from Hubspot. They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today.

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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. How Cynthia came up with the idea of a startup incubator. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage.