SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2021

From 41% in 2020 to 51% in 2021! Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. CEO Spencer Skates owns 8.5%, CTO Curtis Liu 8.0%. We don’t see this that often. This is rare.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2021

. — Daniel Peter (@danieljpeter) December 2, 2020. They know how to take an established brand and grow it faster, and build or expand a new core offering around it. Salesforce may not be great at creating brand new things anymore. Bret Taylor is President and COO of Salesforce — and Facebook’s ex-CTO.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2020

— Scott Evanson (@scottev) July 21, 2020. Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. Save that for board meetings, quarterly updates, etc. I know, board meetings again.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Product Officer.

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. It’s taking the bets that will take longer to prove just because it’s new. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Audience Member 4: I have two questions for you, about when you had to cancel SaaStr Annual in 2020. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

500k+ deals make up half their revenue, and $1m deals 37%. $500k+ deals made up 41% of Braze’s revenue in 2021 and 2020, and $1m+ deals grew to 37% of their revenue, up from 25%. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. I love to see a CTO become CEO, and founders pass the baton to each other when it works.

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. This can be seen in the growing popularity email (newsletters are hot in 2020). How I made it to $1,000 MRR Here are the tactics I used to grow Friendly from a brand new startup to a company that makes over $1,000 in MRR.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Katie Costello, Meghan Rimol: “Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17% in 2020”.

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Unbounce

MAY 19, 2020

If your product offers an immediate solution to the challenges of the new normal, you may also want to place that message front and center on your website. February 1, 2020: In April, though, Asana’s header section refocused on “keeping your team organized and connected,” no matter when or where they work. We’re all in this together.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

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 have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 4, 2022

How Usage-Based Pricing Fueled Two 2020 IPOs” led one from Insight Partners. It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo finally took place.

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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. Last year, Tom Warren of The Verge reported that as of May 2020, Slack’s concurrent users had reached 12.5 We’ve also written about how each new application introduces an endless number of security risks.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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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. At Unbounce, we not only believe that applied AI is the future of marketing , we also think marketers tuned in to what’s happening now stand to benefit in a big way in 2020 and beyond.

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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. Caught your interest?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

is a much worthier investment for your 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. Brand awareness is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle. Here's the data.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In 2020, that figure dropped by half to 38%. Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. I would also encourage you as a new executive to have a separate executive coach. Who made up the lost ground?

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

All are linked back to their source in the online book and are copyright ©1999-2020 Basecamp. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. My problem has been, it’s a big subject, and the deeper I dug, the bigger it got.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. So, we decided to be flexible and through that we actually opened a New York office. Good afternoon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. 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 that’s new ACV.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

All link to their source in the online book and are copyright ©1999-2020 Basecamp. The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. When new tasks come up, you know where to put them. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 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. What do I do now?

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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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