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Top 10 Reasons SaaStr Annual 2025 Will Be Better Than Ever!! May 13-15 in SF Bay!

SaaStr

With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! 1,000+ Networking Sessions Weve doubled down on networking opportunities, with over 1,000 sessions, including Braindates, AMAs, mentoring, and 1:1 meetings. Whether youre looking for a co-founder, a mentor, or your next big customer, youll find them here. The SaaStr.AI

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PCI explained: Why every platform should prioritize compliance | Episode 42

Payrix

addresses this shift by expanding its scope to include 64 new requirements that specifically target eCommerce vulnerabilities. These new requirements cover various aspects of security, including phishing protection, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability scanning, and more. There’s 64 new requirements in total.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. And then you keep resources on them because for the next three to six months, you’re taking feedback from customers and feeding it back into that new functionality or that new product.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. We had to say: what does SMB want? Q: In your career, did you actively seek out coaches, sponsors, and mentors? Steve Gladis is my executive coach.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. A couple weeks into my summer internship at Netscape, I met a guy named Mike McCue who really became my mentor at Netscape.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users. Once you have that, you can begin to acquire some new users. I do that a lot.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? And during my time there, one of my close friends and mentors, his name is Steve Carpenter, gave me a nudge and said, “Hey man, when are you leaving?”

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