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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)

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Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales.