SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . Expanding into new sales channels is a common growth play. Mark was named 2019’s number one Small and Mid-Sized CEO by Comparably. And, these laws often completely contradict one another. .

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I joined TechCXO Back in 2019, and it’s been a great experience surrounded by an awesome group of people. I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. This is not new. They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. That’s when he realized they would need to find a new way to grow.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. Here’s what the new best-of-breed world looks like. But it’s creating a fragmented workplace and new friction.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. Lenny ’s N ewsletter: Top 5 recommendations Started in 2019 as an experiment, Lenny’s Newsletter now has over 670,000 subscribers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. New year, new job.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

We’re doing it SaaStr Europa bigger and better in June 2019. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. Key takeaways: M&A allows you to acquire talent you didn’t have before. Grab your tickets! ??.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On average, our customers’ revenue grew by nearly 20% relative to 2019. With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We added three new executives to our team. We helped facilitate record growth for our customers.

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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?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category. So he’s the CTO? QUESTION 9: Comfortable with a new VP of Sales coming in and using an outside coach. I think I didn’t answer your question.

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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. It has been running since November of 2019 and now has a membership of over 1,500!

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2019, I launched ThinkFractional.blog and took advantage of the opportunity to learn a new platform – Ghost. I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. Already interested in CTAConf 2019? It’s tougher than ever and what used to work, doesn’t anymore. Speechless.

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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.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. So in 2019, we saw in ad tech in general a lot of companies moving toward bringing capabilities in house. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

aprildunford - I think you’ll appreciate this video [link] — Brian Corcoran (@brianc13) November 17, 2019. My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology? It has some unique new features, though it's not positioned around those.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 21, 2021

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. And as you probably know, the constant onslaught of new data protection laws make it really difficult to secure your SaaS apps and stay compliant.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Michael Klett, Co-Founder & CTO, Chargify. We’re particularly pumped to join forces with the Chargify team because it’s so much more than your traditional partnership — from the new product integration, to shows and events, we’re excited for what’s to come. Joining forces to drive SaaS revenue. You only pay if it performs.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since 2019, she’s been the Director of Growth at GitLab. When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We This might include developing and implementing new use cases that drive usage frequency. And it’s about doing a lot of experiments to improve engagement.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I run that company for 4 years (bootstrapped) and got acquired in 2019. I approached the challenge of proving myself by pretty much consistently working harder and longer through much of my career. […] Now, as a new mum – it has forced me to find more balance. I very much would assume that anyone would know more than me.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. That’s when he realized they would need to find a new way to grow.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This video training was originally presented at the 2019 Sales Hacker Success Summit. Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

LinkedIn does, actually, throw away my content, as I found when I tried to get back to some work from 2019.) Plugging the LinkedIn and Mastodon POSSE Leaks From now on, any significant small idea gets done first on Crafty’s Illustrated as micro content using these new microformats.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2019

Are you looking for more on the star-studded line-up coming to Europa 2019 ? Chief Customer Officers from Egnyte and New Relic will be leading sessions on scaling happy customers and winning the long-game in SaaS. Is Seed the New Series A? Jane will focus on scaling sales and all the mistakes new leaders make that affect sales.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? This podcast is an excerpt from Andrew’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. Last year, we added almost 200 new people. What works? What does not work?

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SaaS Onboarding Emails

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

create their first project CTA: Upload a Video/ Make a New One/ Borrow one from us Strengths: Whereas the poem welcome email introduced the brand at large, this second Day 1 email jumps into the task at hand. It’s a new world for Wistia customers, and examples help show them what’s possible. It’s a new CTA.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. This podcast is an excerpt from Eric’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. Harry Stebbings. Yep, we did that. Kind of solve the problem.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. And as a result of that, new opportunities occur.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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