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Career Decisions: What To Look For In a Software Startup

Kellblog

Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. Newer company/technology. So the third hardest-to-change key factor is technology. Startups are about people. We live in a founder-friendly VC era. Clean cap table.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Lucidchart and Wrike — February 28, 2020

SaaStr

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners, ActiveCampaign, Insight Squared, and Dropbox — June 29, 2019

SaaStr

Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. David Skok: The really bad companies, you kind of get that statement from them, well, we missed the number and then you ask them the question, well why did you miss the number? We would absolutely not do it that way.