Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. David Politis: “The 2017 State of the SaaS-Powered Workplace Report”. More at www.frontegg.com , Twitter , LinkedIn , GitHub.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Innovation New CTO 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 5, 2019

“Segmentation gets people to make decisions” Travis Logan, CTO & Co-Founder, Justuno. For example, what information are you currently capturing when a new visitor arrives at your site? With this information, you could automatically build segments within your new visitor audience. right in your welcome pop-up?

Merchant Services 73

Merchant Services Scale New CTO CTO 73

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. For example, before releasing/starting to develop a new feature, we run it by our community first.

Marketing 98

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

In 2017, Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad were all beginning to break out. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. Get best price tickets here!!!

Sales Hiring 255

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 255

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” We spent most of 2017 building it out. Not to mention we have new episodes every week.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You know, earlier today we talked about creating a new category. Welcome Eric.

Sales Hiring 136

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

Merchant Services 81

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 81

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Around 2017, our R&D team realized machine learning has the potential to remove these hurdles from A/B testing—and free marketers to focus more on what humans do best. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 145

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Chart Mogul

JULY 14, 2017

In other words, Freemium leads to a big influx of new accounts, which leads to performance problems, impacting the whole platform (a great way to anger your loyal paying customers!). I quizzed ChartMogul’s CTO on this, as he’s far more qualified on the topic than myself. Your recurring revenue (à la ChartMogul’s new Free plan).

Pricing 53

Pricing SaaS Scale New CTO 53

Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

The new server will be open to those with paid Medium accounts. P.S. Ironically, Gruber skewered Medium back in 2017 about an early form of enshittification, the dickbar. I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame. That would look great on a UX designer’s resume, no?

Social Media 75

Social Media Mobile Management Business 75

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And by the time the song comes out, you’re not even going to really appreciate it because you’ve written 20 new songs, and those are the ones that you can’t wait to hear. And I always just also love to hear about companies that are started outside of New York City and San Francisco. So it’s a great story.

Marketplace as a Service 98

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 98

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. Don't fret, we just bought out our investors and took on some debt.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Scale SMB CTO Coach 56

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. And we were acting as the CTO of Gap and whatever, another title.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 141

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

Payment Features 111

Payment Features Subscription Scale Underperforming Technical Team 111

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The New Sales is about Relationships. Jensen Harris, CTO of Textio, described just how broad this reaches. “If So as salespeople, we have to prepare for — and embrace — this new normal. Or are you creating a new aisle altogether? The post The 11 Most Awe-Inspiring Sales Talks From 2017 appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sales New CTO CTO AI 92