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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

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So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

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Founded : 2011. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founded : 2011. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform.

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

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Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. 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? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

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How to Hire A Great VP Sales: The Full Video and Transcript

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You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. But let’s step back a minute, you’ve got three reps on your team already, doing whatever revenue, four, and you want to triple your revenue. Whatever you do, hire two.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

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I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. And then what’s your unique advantage as a company, as the team? Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. It truly has been a team effort. billion to $20.7

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

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The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2011, he co-founded Rock Content, the top provider of content marketing solutions in Latin America. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.