SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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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. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

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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. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role?

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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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