Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. Let’s start with Payroll – Support.

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. We also measure NPS, and we benchmark that across all acquisitions. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS?

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Customer Success VP of Engineering CTO Hire 52

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing. Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. This guy is a mental toughness coach. I’ll never forget.

Scale 93

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 93

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So I worked for Jason Lemkin for about six years, half of which was EchoSign and the other half of which was Adobe post acquisition. You’re probably going to maybe give them some shares in an advisor. People that can, not just from a numbers standpoint, but from a culture and mentoring standpoint. New category.

Sales Hiring 233

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 233

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

It can even be due to mergers and acquisitions taking place in an organization. Your current role as a CS leader can become temporary after the merger or acquisition. If you take the consultant route to the C-Suite, it can open new doors in the career. Search for a mentor who can show you the way to the top.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success CTO Coach Leadership New CTO 10

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. But to teach new salespeople how to do those great demos, how to sell with passion, how to sell as a team.

Sales Recruiting 233

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 233

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader. Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook.

Scale 253

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 253

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 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. So acquisitions could be for a number of reasons. So you might say that you are so focused on core growth, how would you ever manage an acquisition and then integrating that?

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 114

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.

Technical Advisors 233

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 233

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. So this is Dharmesh.

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Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. So this is Dharmesh.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

Scale 83

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 83

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin Roth is the former CRO of Levelset, where he led the company from its first dollar in ARR to a $500 million acquisition by Procore in 2021. He’s an advisor. I feel like from selling flip-flops to half a billion dollar acquisition by Procore feels like a pretty damn good title for this episode. I love it.

Scale 116

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 116

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. Casey Woo: Yeah, I, I have a thing where when I start a new CFO role, I sit down the entire team and I think one, one of the most important things for leadership is setting the mindset and the, and the tone. You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO.

Sales Recruiting 89

Sales Recruiting Scale Finance Underperforming Technical Team 89