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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. Adopt At the time of adoption, the user starts to feel confident about the product. Let’s start with product-led growth (PLG).

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

” In this episode of the SaaStr podcast, Aileen and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin take a deep dive on how Aileen finds deals, her tips for a winning pitch, and the state of VC in 2020. 347: Ready to hire your first VP Sales? You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below. But haven’t done it before?

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ll have some time. It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. I used it in kind of my breakfast pre warm-up, the crazy times we’re in. From Satya from Homebrew, we just heard that seed’s at an all time high.

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How to Maintain Control of Your Startup When Things Get Bumpy

OpenView Labs

But challenges and obstacles are just part of the reality of entrepreneurship. During trying times, stakeholders could put undue pressure on you to deliver. But for a CEO, silence and avoidance during trying times generally does more harm than good. It could even reach a point where these concerns start to keep you up at night.

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The Y Combinator Guide to Perfectly Pitching Your Seed Stage Startup with Michael Seibel

SaaStr

The fundraising relationship is inherently asymmetric – investors see hundreds of pitches while founders pitch the same company hundreds of times. Airbnb’s unique insight wasn’t about travel or home-sharing – it was about solving the payment trust problem in a low-trust environment.

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