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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Email * The latest SaaStr updates straight to your inbox. Head of Marketing.

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

I’m asked with some frequency which startup sectors are booming. In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed. Mobile messaging and big data are knee-jerk reactions at this point.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

SaaStr 305: Lessons From Scaling Box From 5 Employees To IPO & The Right Way For Startups To Approach Partnerships with Karen Page, General Partner @ B Capital Group. SaaStr 328: SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre on What They’re Seeing with SMB E-commerce Customers. Romain Lapeyre is CEO of Gorgias.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. How do you understand really if cloud marketplaces are right for your startup? Jabari Norton. Rico Mallozzi. Crowdstrike.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

These “digital native customers” are not afraid of startups and look for customer-centric products. These are great customers for startups. As the pace of innovation in this sector accelerates, incumbents feel the increasing pressure to work more with startups. We’ll see a transition with startup founders.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

At some point in your journey, you’ll need to think about your exit strategy from your SaaS startup. It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. You might feel uncomfortable with the idea of selling your startup. But what’s the final checkpoint for your business?