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You Won’t Know Most of Your 10x Hires Are That Good on Day 1

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So Auren Hoffman did a SaaStr workshop a few years back that was one of my favorites, I’ve embedded it below. A good / great employee can become 10x in a new environment was part of Auren’s point. My co-founder and our CTO were both wicked smart. They more often rise up. I saw this live in my first start-up. months later.

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20 Incredible New Experiences at 2020 SaaStr Annual

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250+ AMAs, Workshops, Super Braindates, and more. But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! 100+ Workshops. We’re boosting that to 11 this year with 100+ Workshops. We’ll have a lot of options, but dead center of Annual is our new Cantina. 4,000+ CEOs. 1,000+ VCs. Well, a lot.

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The Final Speaker List for 2023 SaaStr Europa in London 6-7 June is LIVE!!

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And we’ll have a ton more Braindates and Workshops still to come last minute to sign-up for! And we’ll have a ton more Braindates and Workshops still to come last minute to sign-up for! See you there! Take a look at the full agenda here and grab 20% off the final tickets with the link above!

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The Latest Event Trends from SaaStr Annual 2023: More Teams, More VPs and More Leads

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We hosted more than 10K attendees across 3+ days Indoor/ outdoor festival style 25,000 attendee connections were made 3,200 hours of workshops and braindates hosted 289 speakers, 52% women, 53% less represented 159 sponsors 213 zipline rides We had attendees from over 100+ different countries(!) The result?

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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We had Lew Cirne, Founder & CEO of New Relic, Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot and for the first time at Annual, we added office hours with the top VCs in SaaS. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc. 2020 SaaStr Annual At Home.

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10 key lessons SaaStock18 attendees picked up

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Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

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At last week’s Workshop Wednesday, we brought back one of our most highly requested sessions: an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. AI is coming for sales and marketing, and Jason is a super fan of AI in marketing. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Q: What Are You Most Excited About with AI?

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