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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And that’s really good when you’re scaling part of the team that looks like yourself. But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. One, a VP sales.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. The shift has been revolutionary both in software delivery as well as sales. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off. It’s not an understatement to say everything has changed.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And that’s really good when you’re scaling part of the team that looks like yourself. But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. One, a VP sales.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. It’s one of the leading financiers of top notch companies like Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and many more.

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

Or perhaps you work in marketing and are looking for ways to test and optimize your sales funnels. For instance, you may be setting up an online shop and your primary consideration may be a low learning curve, whereas somebody else may be thinking about a platform that can allow them to scale easily. Ease of use.

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How to Get More Organic Traffic Without Doing Any SEO (Seriously)

Neil Patel

Now to be fair, this was back in 2003 when it wasn’t that hard to rank on Google (or any other search engine for that matter). Next thing you know I was collecting 5 figures in monthly checks and my “renters” were ecstatic because they were generating sales at a fraction of the costs compared to what they were spending on paid ads.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions.

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