Downtown Boston Companies Quickly Approaching 50 Employees These are 10 out of 41 companies in downtown Boston with 30 to 49 employees and more than 10% employee growth in the last 6 months. Here's the list.  From the Investors Atomico reports that the stage is set for more China-Europe games business action as Europe’s mobile games industry is increasingly becoming a hunting ground for Asian investors with huge war chests in “Europe Meets China” Omar Mohout of Sirris releases an extensive and interactive overview of deals, markets, and funding trends in “Investors in Europe 2016 Report” Sarah Tavel of Benchmark wagers that the majority of multi-billion dollar companies started with an investment that looked crazy from the outside in “The Art of VC is Knowing When To Be Crazy” Nicole Quinn of Lightspeed Venture Partners tells a story of how Rothy’s is an example of the inherent virality investors love to see in consumer brands and she outlines five reasons why they invested in “What is True Virality?” Carl Fritjofsson of Creandum begins with the perspective of organizations and 5 changes he thinks will impact and force them to adapt in “Adapt or Die” SaaS Metrics Survey
Are you ready to raise your next round? Take our survey to help measure and benchmark the metrics vital to a SaaS company’s success. Answers will be compiled and released this summer. Go here to take the survey. From the Operators Hiten Shah of Product Habits explains, at length, that for any company that lasts long enough, they’ll face a period that they have to copy in order to get back in the game in “Facebook’s Shameless Copying of Snapchat and What It Means for Your Product Strategy” Ogi Kavazovic of Flatiron Health identifies the two most common ways B2B product orgs get stuck, and how to get them back on track in “Dear PMs, It's Time to Rethink Agile at Enterprise Startups” John Saddington of Pinpoint offers a few thoughts on intentional culture building on "Pinning Culture" Must-Reads From Today's Raise The Bar
Lauren Licata of Base CRM asks all the right questions of the legendary original VP of Sales at HubSpot in “The 6 Greatest Sales Management Lessons from Mark Roberge” Peter Strohkorb dives into 7 pervasive bugaboos that plague B2B sales-marketing alignment, which is at a premium and chances are, your organization could do a better job in “7 Common Mistakes in Sales+Marketing Collaboration” Raise The Bar is our newsletter, focused on the best sales and growth marketing content to help the community of DOERS who grow companies. Are you a fan of the Mattermark Daily?
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