Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Another thing that’s different about NP Digital is the fact that we don’t separate technical SEO from content marketing. SEO — technical, on-page, off-page, local, etc. Distilled – Best for Technical SEO. Technical SEO. it’s always a package deal with content marketing. Budget: $10,000+.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

On the heels of our 2018 retrospective, we decided to take a look at what product themes and technology are likely to define the year ahead. I think bots are going to be a massive success as a technology. Bots are great at things that are suitable for computer calculations, like when your next bill is due. Short on time?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 2, 2019

We need to reject the idea that only younger, newer generations can keep up and adapt to changing technology. 2014 saw the rise of marketing automation. It’s the year mail sequences became the new norm for sales teams across the entire tech community. The future of sales can’t rely on technology or channels.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

Due to instances like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there has been a growing unease about the dominance of large tech companies and the possible misuse of data. It is no coincidence that I first learned about Baremetrics because Buffer used them to make their revenue public in 2014. It took us 23 customers to get there.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. It illustrates the distribution of different types of technology users. of the market) are excited about trying products and testing new technology. What is the product adoption curve?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In 2014, entrepreneur and marketing guru Eric Siu bought a failing SEO agency — Single Grain — for $2. Their focus on e-commerce includes design and development, SEO, and CRO. They’re a small 20+ person team that’s focused on serving a specific group of clients in particular niches.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : And, you’ve done that with a number of your executive team, and, in fact, most of your executive team are the ones that you hired early on in the day. Mallun Yen : Well, I think one interesting thing that you have instilled on your team though, and this is something that you do yourself right?

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Unbounce

AUGUST 28, 2018

image via Tech Crunch. This year Google made pagespeed an official ranking factor for mobile search, introduced mobile speed score, and perhaps most important—they’re backing the Accelerated Mobile Pages open-source project: a means of developing web pages that load in (approximately) half a second! The problem with this change?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

DevOps is a practice that combines software and IT operations to shorten the development cycle and deliver high-quality software. As more enterprises adopt SaaS applications, it’s not hard to imagine a world in which most companies have dedicated SaaSOps teams. Could SaaSOps become the next “big” thing in tech?

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). The volume of operational work to maintain our infrastructure to keep up with the growth rate (and deal with tech debt simultaneously) increased. Team expertise. Disaster Recovery.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

We are post-term sheet moving along diligence. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. They know everyone, and if they don’t, someone on their vast team does. Nathan, do you have a question? Jason Lemkin: Got it.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams.

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GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

This was originally presented at the Google Washington DC HQ Tech Talk on August 7th, 2018. Kevin is recognized as a Google Developers Expert and G Suite Top Contributor. . 7 (SS7) or Common Channel SS7 is the technology that connects one mobile phone carrier to another. Signaling System No.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 28, 2020

To that end, Lori also founded Women Sales Pros, the first community online dedicated to helping smart, savvy women get into B2B sales positions and sales leadership and to help companies find and develop great women sellers. How to pivot to when leading a sales team during a crisis [23:14]. A primer on social selling [19:53].

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

But since then, companies that are not SaaS, or even technology companies at all, have recognized the transformative power of Customer Success and embraced it as their new operating model. years since I first published this guide, way back in 2014, Customer Success has evolved dramatically. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In addition, you could use the Portulans Institutes Network Readiness Index to help assess, which countries are ready for the kind of technology you provide. Sure, it’s dropped from 8th to 9th, but that’s more due to increased global competition from the UK and Korea than it has to do with decline for Germany.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 8, 2025

Privacy Concerns with Facebook Integration WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014, and by 2016 its privacy policy changed to share user data with Facebook and third parties. Security and Data Protection WhatsApp secures messages in transit with strong encryption, but there have been weak spots in other areas.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 35:30) Optimal team structures for SMB sales organizations. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46)

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