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Startup 411: Building for Scale with Google Cloud, Stairwell, Mashvisor, and Inworld.ai (Video)

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To convert an idea into a successful venture, startups need to be equipped to scale. Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. A deep dive on selling to SMBs and more from SaaStr Europa.

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5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $2 Billion in ARR

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Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. HubSpot’s operating margins have scaled into the double-digits the past two quarters for the first time. 23% Customer Count Growth Leads to 30% Revenue Growth, but NRR dips to 104% HubSpot is still very much SMB, especially the “M” of SMB.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

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This is also one of the least expensive (in terms of hard costs) things you can due to help the company scale in this phase, and beyond. Once you approach Initial Scale, it’s worth at least considering bring on some strategic debt if not equity. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. More on that here and here.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

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In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How should the success of marketing be measured?

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

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So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. Basically, he had seen something at scale, but he hadn’t gone through that sort of growth phase where you don’t have everything at the tip of your finger. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. We’re low six figures.

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