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In this episode, Eric Martin (Vanta) walks us through what Vendor Risk Management is and why it's important to consider.

You'll learn:


The benefits of vendor risk management
How startups typically do this AND how you can set up a process to mitigate risk

0:00 Intro
0:40 What is Vendor Risk Management
0:55 Why companies invest in Vendor Risk Management
2:12 How do startups do this today?
3:20 How do you identify critical vendors that your employees are sharing data with
4:00 How do you classify vendor risk?

Email eric@vanta.com for a special 25% discount on Vanta products.

In this episode, Eric Martin (Vanta) walks us through what Vendor Risk Management is and why it's important to consider for startups.



0:00 Intro

0:40 What is Vendor Risk Management

0:55 Why companies invest in Vendor Risk Management

2:12 How do startups do this today?

3:20 How do you identify critical vendors that your employees are sharing data with

4:00 How do you classify vendor risk?

Email eric@vanta.com for a special 25% discount on Vanta products.

In this episode, Vishal Sunak, Founder & CEO of LinkSquares, walks us through how he took his company from $1M in ARR to $10M ARR in just 2 years.

You will learn how to grow faster using Vishal's framework: People, Product, development, Predictability, and Philosophy on VCs.

Learn more about LinkSquares at https://linksquares.com/

Follow Vishal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesunak0:00


0:41 What does it mean to be the "best" in SaaS
2:26 Vishal's framework: People
8:08 Vishal's framework: Product development
11:19 Vishal's framework: Predictability
12:47 Vishal's framework: Philosophy on VCs

In this episode, we hear from David Derigiotis (Embroker), on how cybersecurity can differentiate your business. You will learn the following:

- How to protect your business from cyber threats
- Why cybersecurity is more important now than ever before

Learn more at: http://embroker.com/startups

(0:24) Intro
(1:54) Why This and Why Now
(7:42) Cybersecurity By the numbers
(10:16) How to protect your business
(14:29) Examples of stolen data
(18:20) Leverage to differentiate

In this episode, Presh Dineshkumar (LAUNCH) walks us through how to use ChatGPT for content ideation and creation, specifically, how startups can start producing high-quality content with ChatGPT right away.


(0:00) Intro
(0:29) Generating ideas from existing content
(6:28) Using Chat-GPT for your product or service from scratch
(10:34) Creating micro-content with Chat-GPT

In this episode, we're joined by Shensi Ding, Co-Founder at Merge, to talk about product-led growth and how you can implement it at your company.



Merge is a single API to add hundreds of integrations to your app. Learn more at: https://merge.dev/twist



Speaker: Shensi Ding - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shensiding/




1:13 Why focus on PLG (product-led-growth)
5:01 Prioritizing Customer Success
6:57 Three pillars of Product-Led-Groth