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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. It became a part of our interview questions. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team?

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Bob Moesta on unpacking customer motivations with Jobs-to-be-Done

Intercom, Inc.

Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. From qualitative interviews, you’re able to actually see behaviors, and you can look into the data analytics and actually see what’s happening. Finding underlying causality.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And we sold that to Rupert Murdoch in 2011 for about 80 million bucks. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor.

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PODCAST 136: From the Opera to the C-Suite: Taking the Leap and Founding a Company with Matt Klepac

Sales Hacker

Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Matt Klepac. I struggled with being able to align our sales and marketing teams across New York, LA, London, Delhi all of these different places. They developed this don’t let anything get in the way attitude for me, and chase, and always be chasing.

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3 Steps to perform a pricing audit and maximize profitability

ProfitWell

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. What is a pricing audit? How to perform a pricing audit.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Buffer Funding History $120,000 through AngelPad start-up accelerator in August 2011 $330,000 seed round in December 2011 $3.5M and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. of the $3.5M