A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your values are tested only when the decisions are tough, like losing money, hurting your brand, firing a highly-productive employee who isn’t a culture-fit, or a wonderful culture-fit who isn’t able to be productive.

culture 161

culture strategy SaaS founder 161

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. We made up for the inefficiencies in the software by giving them good advice on how to optimize their website, and how to get going in social. 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer.

consulting 51

consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 51

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. And I published this on my own startups blog. So for a long time, it was brand, culture, and what I call boldness, which is is the organization taking on enough risk? So when I had culture on my list, I spent 300 hours in the culture code deck at HubSpot. It's like that.

frameworks 135

frameworks culture advice networking 135