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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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At Click Ventures, Carman uses her impressive skills to lead companies on the right path, with an unheard of failure rate of funded businesses – below 10%. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Diny Gomes. Everything about Diny Gomes screams energy.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Namely is an HR software company that offers HR, payroll, benefits and talent management tools to businesses. Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning. He was the CFO of SQA and Orange Nassau.

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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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In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. The problem is that he was in business school, working towards an MBA.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

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Plus, I knew these company leaders were busy — when would I have the opportunity to pick their brains again?  Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Ever since the beginning, our mission has been to make internet business personal, and the podcast has played a big role in that.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 How can it really, really help businesses outside of just, say, managing a calendar? million apiece.