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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

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Instead, due to a decade-long exodus from Wall Street, the strategic CFO has burst onto the tech scene. I think what we’re seeing in all of our portfolio companies and tech at large is that finance is increasingly seen as strategic, and they now have a seat at the table when it comes to making major decisions at the company.”

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My Top 10 Mistakes in 10 Years: Andy Byrne, CEO at Clari

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In our early days, we were like elves in Santa’s tech workshop. Let’s talk about implementation and past challenges when deploying technology. That’s when you’ve got to take the diligence to the next level. Be diligent about learning and improving. Did we give the conversation its due? We’d build.

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How To Land Enterprise Clients As An Early-Stage Company With Hugo CEO & Co-founder Simone Bartlett (Video)

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In this week’s Workshop Wednesday , Simone Bartlett, the CEO & Co-founder of Hugo, talks about tactical tips for landing enterprise clients as an early-stage company. You can operate with a sense of urgency while also doing your due diligence to ensure you’re ready. What’s going on in society? It’s okay not to be ready.

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The Fall of the Metric Monolith with Battery Ventures Principal Brandon Gleklen (Video)

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In an insightful SaaStr workshop , Battery Ventures Principal Brandon Gleklen shares how the views on SaaS metrics are changing and considerations for measuring success continue to shift in today’s landscape. For example, data-centric and machine-learning businesses have high COGS early on, but they gain operating leverage at scale.

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500,000+ Tuned into Our Digital Events in 2020. Here Were The Top 10 Sessions.

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Things start off looking bleak, with SaaStr Annual 2020 the first big tech event to be postponed due to Covid. And then we all plunged into what looked like a big tech recession — at first. tune into SaaStr Enterprise, with an incredible line up sharing how to sell and scale with larger customers.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

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At last week’s Workshop Wednesday, we brought back one of our most highly requested sessions: an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin. Many tech veterans don’t want to work anymore, and we can’t afford folks who want to work 10 hours a week and make six figures. It doesn’t matter until you’re at scale.

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9 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google

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You have to be able to pass a technical review, do or build what you said you would, and pass diligence on usage and revenue. Google was acquiring 40-50 companies, while smaller startups will be acquiring on a much smaller scale, if at all. #3 People lie about usage and revenue, which leads to a failed acquisition. #2