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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

SaaStr

You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share more data, not less. Share up front why your first CTO left. Seed is slowing down last, but it is slowing down. Show the opposite.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. In 2016, she moved to Hong Kong to head Innovation at HSBC. Kathleen Ting. Janet Yuen. Kandy Yeung.

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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. (And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ).

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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. He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. Keep your eyes peeled as we unveil the list and a bit more about your favorite leaders.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. And it was very successful.

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Laura Klein on improving chemistry in product teams

Intercom, Inc.

When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call. Laura: I’m glad you asked, because my CTO currently lives in Hawaii.

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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 It is no better than the data that you feed into it, and it has no soul. million apiece. “AI is fancy statistics.