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SaaStr
JUNE 1, 2021
In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. million in 2014.).
OpenView Labs
APRIL 12, 2019
Getting hiring right is absolutely critical. I’d like to talk about two different companies with two very different approaches to hiring post-seed raise. To get the team started we hired several junior developers. There is a binary feeling that comes from making those first few technical hires. We needed a CTO.
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OpenView Labs
JULY 2, 2020
Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. Critical questions throughout the article will guide the reader in developing an effective pricing strategy.
Buffer Resources
DECEMBER 1, 2023
⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. While he has worked mostly in iOS and apps, he’s also dabbled in marketing, too — Andy’s had a hand in building almost every part of the Buffer website! ” 11. ” 12.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 31, 2019
The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”.
Outseta
OCTOBER 15, 2018
The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. of the $3.5M
SaaStr
JULY 28, 2021
I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped it and then in October of 2016, we actually did an IPO which was interesting and fun and cool, but it’s a lot of work, too. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. Therese : Turned out I liked it.
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