Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. 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.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 28, 2020

Sit down with Chargify CTO Michael Klett and I, as we unravel the mysteries of RevOps. Recently, the Stone Brewing Company filed a lawsuit against Keystone Light claiming their new branding—the word “stone” prominently on the front of their packaging—was confusing customers. Random number generator. Transparency goes a long way.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Technical Review CTO 45

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Figma made the product SaaS-based. It’s actually similar in PLG SaaS, but we don't do that well usually.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top 10 Things to Know Before Starting a SaaS Company? This isn’t B2C and virality won’t accelerate the process enough in the early days. You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. You really need a great CTO, not just a good business team. True in B2C too of course.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Sales Recruiting VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) 295

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. It’s challenging to find super high-quality folks unless you’re in B2C, where customer support is sales. The average public SaaS company is marching toward $400k in revenue per employee.

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AI Pricing Artificial Intelligence Scale 299

Frontegg

JANUARY 27, 2022

These “software hooks” are helping SaaS companies make the shift towards Product-Led Growth by giving users more in-app freedom and reducing the need for cumbersome support emails or calls. One such example is automatically shooting up an onboarding video for new customers. The SaaS space has become very dynamic.

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New CTO SaaS Payment Features CTO 98

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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SaaS Payments Engineering Technical Advisors Payment Solutions 77

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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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

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. And that kind of sets the incentives and kind of you can’t get a new co-founder or a team member multiple of those to your business.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 111

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

In my opinion, the biggest downside to working in-house, whether it is a big brand or a startup, is that the messaging remains the same: the tech can evolve and it may have new features, yet the story around it tends to remain the same. What are PR peculiarities for SaaS companies? PR works similar in both B2B and B2C.

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Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) They just built the first SaaS product. It’s in New York. The other thing is, I live in New Orleans. Levelset was the only venture-backed company in New Orleans. I remember there was this podcast.

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