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The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make

SaaStr

Quickly, though, your attention turns to initial traction, your first critical hires, and building out those early business functions. I’ve contracted accounting help. Let’s say you receive a contract from a customer that outlines they will pay you $100 for the monthly subscription with an invoice of terms Net 30.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

As a founder, you need to be more involved in functional areas like sales support and success. It’s tough for folks to staff these functions. Give everyone x amount of money to go find the best one. App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. Is SaaS dead right now?

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. For this one deal, we just need to do X. To run a startup, you have to make bets.

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The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Then things got worse in 2021 because everything was easier.

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PPC 2023 in review: UA sunsets, Google antitrust trial, X’s downfall and more

Search Engine Land

The decline of X Following Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, Twitter’s ad revenue steeply declined. The following month, the platform changed its name to X and tried to lure back advertisers by slashing the price of video ads. Experts have predicted that X will lose as much as $75 million in ad revenue by the end of the year.

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PODCAST 138: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. He talks about the journey of a marketer leading the entire revenue function on the path to CEO. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:01].

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Since March 15th, was there a trigger point where maybe I had a project that I was talking to Coupa, it might be a 2021, 2022, 2023 long term deployment because you have many enterprise customers. You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X? It’s almost a step function. But what is this?

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