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10 Must-Read Books for Startup Founders

Baremetrics

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things , Horowitz distills years of experience building companies into actionable lessons of leadership. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Listen to it here! Try Baremetrics free.

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Applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are Now Open

Casey Accidental

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Product Leadership. Unlock your full potential as a Product Manager by learning to drive impact for the metrics that matter most for your product.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. For example Founders Fund, I don’t think we changed our criteria at all, but I felt like maybe we were on the 20th percentile in terms of conservatism on some of these metrics.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Rico Mallozzi: Yeah, I think oftentimes people look at marketplaces as like a storefront, like an eBay, but it’s much more like a PayPal. And it will require a collaboration across the organization at the leadership level. So I think that’s key in your assessment phase as well. Rico Mallozzi: Yeah.

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What Does a Successful Security Program Look Like?

BetterCloud

Success is having leadership buy-in, lending authority to decisions that come from the security team. After that, we talked to their manager (leadership buy-in!). Figure 4 – Not a real Paypal email. We’d then do a phishing campaign, collect metrics, and present on our findings. What does success look like?

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. Okay, so the crazy thing is that when I was doing PayPal and Yammer we really just used Excel. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

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