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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

At the end of Day 3 of SaaStr Annual 2022, Jason opened up the mic for an AMA. This episode is the second half of the session. In this episode, Jason discusses: Advice for very early-stage founders. Why real customer support is critical. Bootstrapping. What’s next for SaaStr. The first half of the session was published in Episode 607.

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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents, each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I’ll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents.”

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. Founder and President. Vice President Sales. President and Co-Founder. VP Europe Sales, Presales and Marketing. Vice President, Client Partnerships North America. Vice President. Regional Vice President of Sales. Leadership.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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9 Internet Trends You Need to Know About This Year

FastSpring

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. Looker CEO and President, Frank Bien , said data has become the new application for digital companies.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. are what we like to have in an online forum. As a business person yourself, you know how it works. Professional moderation.