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Looking into the Future of BI With Colin Zima

Tom Tunguz

He worked on search quality at Google, founded a dynamic pricing company for the restaurant industry, then ran data at a hotel tonight before becoming Chief Analytics Officer at Looker through its acquisition by Google. Colin has advised many of the world’s largest companies on their BI strategy.

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Optimizing GTM for PLG with Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge (Pod 594 + Video)

SaaStr

He advises bringing these features to a B2B growth team and then shares mistakes that B2B companies make while adding go-to-market (GTM) to PLG. Free user acquisition. Stage 3: Prove scalable quality user acquisition. It’s time to reduce the customer acquisition cost by experimenting with content marketing and virality.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. That’s something that Jason advises. They don’t have an agenda. Yeah, go ahead.

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What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer

Casey Accidental

I had been an advisor for Eventbrite for about two years, so I had a lot of comfort with the CEO and many of the executives before ever starting the role. When I started advising Eventbrite, the company had a business unit structure, so it didn’t even have a CPO role, but product leaders embedded into different business units.

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Hump? What Hump? Why You Should Listen When Someone Says You’re Doing It Wrong.

Kellblog

But the outcomes are clear if the reasons are not: you’re omitted from meetings, passed over for promotions, underperform in nine-box reviews, find advisors suddenly too busy to work with your company [1], and VCs surprisingly passing on your financing round [2]. There are few symptoms, other than the odd cringe that may go unnoticed.

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How to Build your Marketing Stack with Gorgias and OpenClassrooms (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So data analytics, marketing customer analytics, and technology and acquisition. The second category is very interesting because this, you can translate that as the paid spend, of Facebook and what not, moving towards MarTech acquisition tools. And you talked earlier about how it’s becoming more and more technical.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity. ” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

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