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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. Getting off the ground is one thing — an easy pitch of being an HR tech startup focused on improving hiring. He ran from the term.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.”

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The Most Important Investment a Startup Can Make

Tom Tunguz

I’ll never forget the first time I met Paul Graham in that very same room right after the first Startup School. Nor the management class on having difficult conversations with colleagues, among countless others. One could argue the entire open-source movement is a giant continuing education program for software engineers.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

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The Limitations of Data and Benchmarks

Tom Tunguz

All the quantitative analysis in the world won’t lead me to the next great idea for startup. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit because in both the recent Software Engineering Daily podcast I did with Jeff, and the presentation I gave at Launch Conference, the question of the limits of metrics surfaced.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer.

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Fearless Marketing: Meet the Small Team Selling Big Dreams

Unbounce

Sounds like a big opportunity for talent-starved companies to recruit, right? For example, female software engineers have increased by only 2% in the last * 21 years *. How’d they grow from a small startup to a budding global player? It’s also interesting to see how “community” shapes the allWomen sales funnel. “We