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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

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5+ cofounders can work (I think of that as too many cooks, but now I see it can work). Cofounder conflict. But now I’ve seen many unicorns make it even with significant cofounder conflict in the early and middle days. Great CEO But Mediocre CTO. A mediocre CTO can’t keep up. It works for Atlassian.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

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Tips: to manage OKRs, and KPIs with ease with Kashinath Kadaba Shrish, Cofounder & CTO at Fitbots Leveraging new age AI technologies(GPT and NLP) to increase Organic Traffic using Scalenut with Saurabh Wadhawan, CoFounder at Scalenut What are the best marketing channels for SaaS B2B businesses?

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Chances of a Startup CEO Getting Fired?

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So, if you don’t raise money and bring on any outside Directors, there is usually no one who can fire the CEO , unless the other cofounders get together, vote themselves the majority of the board, and then fire the CEO. So the other cofounders can sometimes fire you, but that’s about it. That’s different, and more common.

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Right Co-Founder … Wrong CEO. Could That Be You? Be Honest.

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This happens with some regularity in SaaS, I’ve learned (and to be clear: I’m not talking about any company I’ve invested in, am an advisor to, board member of, etc – Because when it’s still a very small team, with no true management team … co-founders can kind of hack it to $1m-$2m in ARR together.

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Business Disputes: You Always Lose

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I’ve had cofounders and VPs walk out the door and make mlliions. And it just scales. What To Do When a Customer Doesn’t Pay? Let it Go and Move On. Finally, I’ve been doing this long enough to tell you there is no karma. What goes around does not come around. I’ve made folks millions that never said thank you.

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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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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. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

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“The initial appeal was just how easy it was to work with the system,” CTO and Cofounder David Heinemeier Hansson said, “that we knew rates were up to date and we were billing our customers for the right rates and we could defend that when we were submitting our paperwork.” ” 2.