Startup for Startup - Global ⚡ by monday.com

Dec 20 2023 31 ep. 36 mins 55

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Startup for Startup is a podcast in which we at monday.com openly share knowledge, experience, and actionable insights among startups. Each episode of the podcast highlights a different challenge we faced on our journey as a growing startup.

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Fundraising During War - Are Foreign VCs Investing in Israeli Startups

Dec 20 2023 37 mins

The current geopolitical situation in Israel brings quite a few challenges for startups wishing to raise money. These challenges become even more significant when they involve foreign VCs who may need help understanding the situation, making the way startups communicate with them even more critical. In mid-November, we held an event where Daria Wertheim interviewed Shuli Galili

The Importance of CS & Account Managers Alignment

Aug 10 2023 27 mins

Why is it important for CS & AM to work together? What can this cooperation allow us as a company? Customer retention is one of the most, if not the most, important abilities for a company. It becomes even more important in a time when markets are changing, and companies are re-evaluating their expenses and making sure every service they use is at the core of their business - n

Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Eran Zinman & Roy Mann (monday.com) - Measuring SaaS companies in 2023

Jul 24 2023 70 mins

Let's talk about SaaS metrics in 2023. The last few years have turned the tables for many startups, and have also changed the way the market, and investors in particular, have evaluated startups. As part of this, many of the metrics we have worked with until then - such as ARR or CAC, have become much less relevant. The market wanted to focus on profitability and efficiency and had

What makes a good discovery call?

Jul 11 2023 18 mins

A discovery call is fundamental to any successful sales cycle. Looking at the more simple definition of it, a discovery call is the first conversation with a potential customer after they’ve shown initial interest in our product. It’s basically our chance to get to know the customer and see if we're a good fit for them, and, in return, if they're a good fit for us. But there’

How we went from near closure to a unicorn (Joe Thomas, CEO, Loom)

Jun 27 2023 44 mins

How do you build a product that people will want to share with each other? What do you do when you have two weeks left until your runway ends? How do you know that pivot is the right thing for your startup? Back in 2015, Joe Thomas and his fellow co-founders held a meeting where they each pitched three startup ideas. They spent the next eight months striving to develop a video-base

Why have we decided to build a startup within monday.com?

Sep 08 2022 47 mins

Why have we decided to build a startup within monday.com? What makes a founder that closed their company want to start a new one within an existing company? And how does the integration between the two companies work? How many of the big companies you know have started within other companies? Gmail started within Google, Atlassian has companies with a different brand like confluen

Onboarding a new team member

Apr 12 2022 29 mins

There is a number of important points in an employee’s life at a company. The most crucial one is probably the onboarding. a good onboarding experience can improve the employees’ retention by 82%, and their performance by 70%. It puts a lot of weight on this process - that many companies struggle with. By working right with a few tools, you can improve dramatically the

Managing job crafting

Mar 29 2022 34 mins

In the age of technology, careers shift all the time. A programmer can wind up in product management. A content writer can find their passion for design and become a graphic designer. More and more, we’re becoming comfortable switching career paths, and like any new practice, there’s a name for it: job crafting. Though job crafting is all the rage at the moment, not eve

“Well done!”: How to give constructive feedback

Mar 15 2022 34 mins

“Well done!” “Err, good job.” “It’s sufficient.” For both the giver and receiver, feedback can feel daunting. As a manager, you face quite a few challenges: you don’t want to be so slight-handed that the team member doesn’t know what to improve or how, but you also don’t want to come across as cold and demotivate the

Fostering a winning team

Feb 28 2022 28 mins

Having a bunch of great team members doesn’t guarantee team success. Your team needs to be able to run smoothly and independently, effectively collaborating with each other without needing constant reassurance. Vitali Margolin learned this lesson the hard way when he realized that as a CTO of a small startup, his team wasn’t capable of making decisions and moving forwar