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How to Scale from 0 to 100 Employees with Speedinvest

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Scaling a company from 0 to 100 employees is no small feat. While these top ten tips may seem obvious, many founders overlook the importance of some of them as they scale their businesses. In the chart above, you can see that pre-seed starts at -2 on the scale. If we’re being honest, scaling a company is hard.

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What Does it Take to Get to the Next Level of Funding After Series B with Scale Ventures’ Stacey Bishop

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There’s only a small chance that it’ll be an IPO exit, and Stacey Bishop with Scale Ventures shares what it takes to get to that next level of funding. To get VC to put money into your company, Scale Ventures looked at and calculated the minimum level of growth based on what typical venture investors require.

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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

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Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? As you scale, your win rate — the % of deals you close vs. the competition — should go down. The post The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue appeared first on SaaStr.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. She can be your CTO forever. As are you.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

As with all things related to customers, there’s an art and science to effectively dealing with each of their ideas. With so many voices competing for attention, you need a means of effectively dealing with all of the data that will come your way.

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The 3 Secret Ingredients for Scaling to $100M ARR with Bitly CEO and CPO

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Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner and CPO Kelsey Stevenson share the three secret ingredients that helped them when scaling to $100M ARR and what they could have done differently. The post The 3 Secret Ingredients for Scaling to $100M ARR with Bitly CEO and CPO appeared first on SaaStr. Lean into the risks and experiment.

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Lessons Learned Rapidly Scaling a Team from 2 to 1100 People with Remote CEO and Co-Founder Job van der Voort

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What does it take to scale a team from 2 to more than 1,100 people in just a few short years? When Remote had 120 people two weeks into 2021, they planned to scale to 600 that year. Over time, you establish product-market fit and determine how to sell at scale. And it was true.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Challenges like infrastructure costs, safety concerns, as well as uptime and scaling can all be avoided with the right embedded analytics technology. Embedded analytics offers a strategic solution to this challenge. Here’s how.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Key topics will include: Getting started: the "crawl" phase of ABM and its boundaries Unlocking the potential of the "run" phase and using the right strategy for scaling your efforts The essential components of an effective ABM tech stack within each stage Real-world insights from NetSPI's ABM journey with MarketingOS

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How Collecting and Managing the Voice of the Customer Will Strengthen Your Product

Unfortunately, even the most sophisticated organizations often lack clear strategies and processes for collecting and managing the voice of the customer at scale—or worse, they simply ignore this valuable source of data. What better source of insight into what those are and how they’re changing than your customers themselves?

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MLOps 101: The Foundation for Your AI Strategy

And for those who are already underway, scaling their results across their organizations is completely uncharted waters. Many organizations are dipping their toes into machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). However, for most organizations embarking on this transformational journey, the results remain to be seen.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

In most cases, the COVID-19 crisis has sped up the desire to engage in digital transformation for medium-to-large scale enterprises. Roadmaps are rarely implemented without challenges.

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The Ultimate Gartner Report to Driving Growth & Recurring Revenue

In 2023, companies are looking to improve their revenue and drive sustainable growth by scaling their subscription offerings, to increase the rate of growth and resilience by moving from one-time sales to recurring revenue.

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Build Trustworthy AI With MLOps

In our eBook, Building Trustworthy AI with MLOps, we look at how machine learning operations (MLOps) helps companies deliver machine learning applications in production at scale. For businesses that are AI-driven, this trust hinges on the confidence that their AI solution can help them make their most critical decisions.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.