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The Compound Startup Advantage: Why The CEO of Rippling Believes Focus Is Overrated

SaaStr

Conrad personally runs payroll for Rippling’s 2,000 employees across a dozen countries as a “part-time job,” while UK companies with even small teams often spend 5-6 days monthly just managing payroll. The company now has three distinct “clouds”: HR Cloud : Traditional HR and payroll functions.

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Things May Snap Back Fast. So Take Advantage Of This Crazy World Now.

SaaStr

Things were slow for a while during the last downturn, but then the Cloud just picked itself up and … ran. Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Underperformers found it harder to hide after Covid, and many have already left or moved on. Respectfully move on from any other underperformers by year-end.

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Microsoft as a Mirror - What We Can Expect for SaaS in 2023

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. Segment Expected Growth Productivity 12% Office Commercial 6% Office On-Premise -25% LinkedIn 5% Dynamics 13% Intelligent Cloud 18% Azure 26% Server -3% Services -3% 2. About 70% of commercial Office subscribers use Teams.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is when I got hooked on tech, and SaaS, and cloud, and making things faster and better. Want to see more content like this?

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

Multi-cloud architectures. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “ multi-cloud ,” it means deploying your application to a heterogeneous cloud-based platform spread across multiple cloud providers.

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When Should You Add a Second Product?

SaaStr

Do you have two sales teams? Who gets what part of the long-term development budget? And most importantly, multiple products can be very distracting at the management team level. The last thing you want the team doing is chasing a shiny penny, when what really matters is hitting the plan for the quarter.