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Why Your Startup's Org Chart is Limiting Your Growth

Tom Tunguz

There’s a CEO at the top in red, VPs in orange, senior contributors in dark gray, team leads in green, and junior individual contributors in light gray. Sometimes there are directors running teams that should be headed by VPs. Is this so bad? Hiring a large team is necessary, but insufficient. That won’t work.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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How to Build and Improve Your Product Analytics Strategy

User Pilot

Product analytics refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data on how users interact with a product. A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Enables teams to track progress toward key performance indicators (KPIs).

Strategy 105
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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

Scale 250
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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale 293
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10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift’s Co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres (Pod 626 + Video)

SaaStr

Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process. It’s about enabling the people on your team to be more productive and efficient. Lesson 6: Pivoting isn’t a bad thing.

Scale 246
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Bad Customers Can Kill Your SaaS Business

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Everybody’s got a story about bad customers. But if you’re a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, bad customers can be much worse than that. No way to recover your costs For one thing, these bad customers are likely to cost you money, not make you money. These customers can be infuriating, frustrating, and just plain rude.