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Leadership Learnings: 5 Things I Wish I Could Have Told My 2013 Self With Advisor and Former CTO of Heap Dan Robinson (Pod 663 + Video)

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Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Register for SaaStr Annual and join 12,500 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs at SaaStr Annual for three full days of workshops, sessions, and networking — all to help you scale faster.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2019 The Fifth SaaStr Annual: Where the Cloud Meets . It was a hit!

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

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Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. Chris Degnan: At Snowflake, we built a cloud database from scratch.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars. It’s in the cloud. And as they grew, we grew.

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GTM 137: The Biggest Business Turnaround You’ve Never Heard Of & The Growth Levers to Pull When Things Go Wrong

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Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. From a top perspective, you know, it was an interesting time. It was 2013 in New York city.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

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Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? When is the right time to sell a startup?