SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth, however, the company realized just how badly it needed the valuable services of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Key takeaways.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. So it’s API first, even for our own services that are being consumed in new products that we are building. Our hope when we launched the platform, and you can actually look up this blog post.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog. Everything she writes here is reinforced in her blog, eBooks and kits, and videos. You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2020

In today’s fast-paced B2B marketplace of instant communication and process automation , businesses cannot afford to rely on the classic definition of a deal. Leverage document templates to speed-up creation and increase brand compliance. Executive Leadership – 43%. Client services – 22%. Finance – 38%.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. Furthermore, the company grew so quickly that it struggled to keep pace with compliance and governance, which was dangerous in a regulated industry. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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