Development Technical Cofounder Underperforming Technical Team 
Point Nine Land
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.
SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
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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Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Dreamforce in SF last week for our GP, Max Altschuler.
Kellblog
JULY 18, 2019
Great core/founding team. Thus, there is a good chance one or all of the founding team will be around, and in influential positions, for a long time. While the sales-and-marketing types will emphasize “its proven-ness” you will want to know how much technical debt there is associated with this old architecture.
FastSpring
APRIL 26, 2022
To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate.
Kellblog
JULY 21, 2019
(And it makes you think twice when you’re on the other end of that phone call – was the show bad or did we execute it poorly?) . The difference between a great show and a bad show is often, in a word, execution. I’m a huge believer in live events and an even bigger believer that you get back what you put into them. Just good.
Chargify
APRIL 23, 2019
Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Seeking financing from friends and family.
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