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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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What are some of the biggest mistakes you made with enterprise SaaS sales?

SaaStr

I remember my CTO once arguing with a Fortune 500 company on a “security” concern they had which really made no sense. More here: I Never Lost a Customer I Actually Visited | SaaStr Not hiring a full-time RFP person. Not hiring a full-time Chief Security & Compliance Offer. Didn’t matter.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly. What about compliance? How do you automate all the dev ops processes to take out a lot of the people and have compliance in place? How can you automate?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. We chat with Maggie about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. There’s no one size fits all method to improve diversity, and that presents a serious challenge.

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10 Companies Show you their Positioning Strategy for Marketing

Upscope

If you want to learn more before getting the book then watch her presentation here on Youtube. If you position around "time saved" you lose money Jason Cohen has built and sold several companies and is the Founder and CTO of WP Engine. Security information, HIPAA and GDPR compliance. That's not gonna be me.

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Katie Burke on company culture: building a better work culture

ProfitWell

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. In fact, that's probably better for everyone than if you found that out after they've been hired. Compliance.