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.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Finance & Accounting. The most common example of business outsourcing is finance and accounting, or F&A. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. This lack of resources is a major struggle for teams with in-house F&A staff, according to Consero.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Frida Ahrenby : “I started out in sales in the TelCo industry, I started from working in one of the biggest TelCo providers in the Nordics, moving on to product management, then business development, and then a role in marketing and sales again. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. Using precious development resources to build and maintain your own recurring billing code, and all the complexities that arise, 1. costs money and 2.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Josh and I both went to work at Fair, along with our entire team, until eventually about a year and a half in, Josh and I both decided to leave, go for round two with Pipe in late 2019. I totally agree.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The premature release of a product that has major overlooked software flaws can turn off potential customers immediately, with no chance to remedy the bad first impression. Chances are, someone else spotted the same opportunity, and is developing a solution of their own. SaaS is one of the fastest growing sectors of entrepreneurship.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

How remote work, social entrepreneurship, and the sharing economy are colliding to drive us towards community based, self-managed organizations By Geoff Roberts I’ve written previously about how we’re embracing self-management as we build Outseta. Imbalance can be bad, e.g. inherited privilege, coercion, manipulation, the ‘old boys club.’

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

First, from a career development perspective, how one should manage the presence of such badges on your resume. That team survived that devastating shock and later sold the company for $900M. In this post, I want to explore two different aspects of the red badge of courage. Those folks are my heroes. Anger and conflict. Economic loss.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

But challenges and obstacles are just part of the reality of entrepreneurship. Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you. As Gary Gaspar points out , finance is another one of the biggest sources of startup stress. Mind the numbers. Streamline your IT for smoother workflows.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”? How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps?

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? And so really it became a bad habit. Harry Stebbings: And then what was the founding moment with InCountry after the bad habit of selling companies? Where do many people go wrong?

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