Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 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.

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Patrick Campbell deconstructs and walks through the elements of a pricing strategy that enables startups to more effectively acquire customers. Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. Economics and Acquisition ?? Economics and Acquisition ?? Market Characteristics ??

Marketplace as a Service 59

Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Just prior to Sapper, my job was basically to go in and be the head of sales at a different startup. I am the head of sales for a startup company in a basement office in the Silicon Prairie of St. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. I see this online all the time. I took a job.

Scale 93

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 93

SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2023

You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. A mediocre tech team, a part-time CTO, or even just a decent CTO just doesn’t get you there. Finally you have great customers and traction — but you can’t afford to hire all the people you need to meet their needs. True in B2C too of course.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) 300

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. There is more capital available to startups than ever before. The influx of capital has made it easier for startups to raise money, but it has also led to higher valuations and more competition. Is it sustainable?

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CTO Hire Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 297

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She is active on LinkedIn, where she helps SaaS companies optimize their customer acquisition, demand generation, product positioning , and growth plans. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. He’d work with me at our prior startup NICU.

Sales Recruiting 233

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 233

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Today I wanted to talk to you about something a little bit unconventional, which is around doing M&A, as a startup yourself. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. So on this topic, so how like what are the things, what would you consider, why would I start up, be buying another startup?

Outsourcing Services 113

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 113

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. 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.

Scale 252

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 252

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. dollar acquisition. Harry : We’ve had a billion?dollar

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Startup CEOs generally fall into one of two categories and the category is likely to predict how they will approach the ownership issue. Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. When you’re CEO of a startup there is no boss and there are no peers. Founder CEOs: It’s My Company. However, some do [5].

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Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? Throughout this whole time, you own, I believe, millions of millions of dollars worth of domains.

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Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 140

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016.

Sales Hiring 162

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 162

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. How do you have time to have your hands in all this different stuff? Throughout this whole time, you own, I believe, millions of millions of dollars worth of domains.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. You know, startup experience and then at larger companies. But you and I both know. Do you know what I mean?

Scale 83

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 83

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2025

Co-founders Dharmesh Shah (CTO) and Brian Halligan (Chairperson) shared at SaaStr Annual the unfiltered truth on building an SMB powerhouse, pivoting to product-led growth, and why the “M” segment is SaaS gold. The company had to retrench and restart their global efforts multiple times. May 13-15 in SF Bay!

Scale 200

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Scaling 200

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. Currently, he’s the founder of MartinRoth.com, specializing in helping startups scale from $1M to $10M in ARR. The Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. He’s an investor.

Scale 116

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 116

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. Then I joined a 10 person startup. And yet, everyone I’m working with in the startup is smart, English fluency, and then I quickly learn as a rookie operator. In startups, it’s a goddamn zoo. Eight languages at a startup. Hey everyone.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Finance Underperforming Technical Team 89