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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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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? But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out.

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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.