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10 Must-Read Books for Startup Founders

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Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler 2 2. Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler If you or your sales team do any outbound prospecting, you should definitely prioritize reading Predictable Revenue. Happy reading! Table of Contents. The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz 3 3.

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

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Maybe try a super-stretch in Year 1 of revenue, for the company as a whole or for a new product line. Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. So the general rule of if you are going to stretch, then stretch early — doubly applies for double stretches. But after that, it’s tough.

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

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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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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (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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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

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We thought it would have a business opportunity of around about $100 million in revenue. I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. It was monitoring Ruby on Rails back in the day.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

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353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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I mean I guess I would say one critical thing that we did early on was we got them to agree that we as a leadership team were the ones who are owning the whole sort of announce and offer process to that new company for our employees. We have a leadership center in New York City with these phenomenal sort of leaders and instructors.