SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

At Click Ventures, Carman uses her impressive skills to lead companies on the right path, with an unheard of failure rate of funded businesses – below 10%. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Diny Gomes. Everything about Diny Gomes screams energy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. We’ve built some exciting new features into Intercom using this new GPT technology and have given access to several hundred customers – and the response has been astounding. Our team has been using the new AI Inbox features a lot.

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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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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career. And that is precisely the gap that a strong fractional CTO can fill.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. Stax’s mission and commitment to unlock partner and customer success through its innovative technology really resonates with me,” said Krahl. Stax Payments , Inc., and Canada. For more information, visit staxpayments.com.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Nikos Moraitakis, CEO @ Workable, moderates this insightful session with Dan Adika, CEO at WalkMe; Mallun Yen, Chief Business & Product Officer at RPX Corp; Craig Walker, CEO at Dialpad; and Wade Foster, CEO @ Zapier. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This is if companies opt to use an independent consultant. Therefore, many companies opt-in for an independent consultant to perform the audit. What happens if you add new services or locations? This includes detection, business losses, post-breach response, and notification.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But as a digital seller and online business owner, sometimes you need a quote that gives you more than warm, fuzzy feelings. You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. Make sure you’re prepared to make things right when you need to.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

Introduction: Digital transformation can be challenging for any business, but it can be especially daunting for legacy businesses with entrenched cultures and systems. However, embracing digital transformations is essential for staying competitive in today's fast-paced business environment.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. He has also invested in businesses, like Figma, Vanta, and Webflow, among others.

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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. Allyson is highly certified in Salesforce and attributes her success to a knack for technology and a love of finding and solving problems.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year. It isn’t the lack of team adoption or poor implementation of new tech. Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. That’s crazy!

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Before we get there, we have two sponsors.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes business conversations in real time to coach reps on how to become top performers. The first is Chorus.ai.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Taking shortcuts diminishes you and your teams ability to truly understand, harness and exploit the DevOps' potential to supercharge your business results. Not only is this sound business practice, but also a great way to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration between, otherwise highly protective, stakeholders. And here you are.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This series attempts to give practical advice to SaaS CEOs and Founders on how to organize and automate their financial backend , giving them freedom to spend time with more value-adding parts of their business like financial planning. What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins?

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Let me be very clear—this is not an argument for consulting or the so-called gig economy and I’m not arguing against the need for full-time employees—if you’re hiring a COO, for example, you’re probably going to need that person full-time. “ You don’t need more people or more hours, you need fewer hours from better people. ”

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. He founded LinkSquares with the goal of building great products to improve how businesses operate. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While this is an oversimplified example, it highlights the point that it’s a lot easier for CFOs to understand and accept the investment strategy in these areas of the business. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. Below, we breakdown and detail the various elements of this new growth measurement: Costs.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

First it was Wistia , followed shortly thereafter by Buffer ; both buyouts a sort of declaration of independence that gave both companies back the ability to build their businesses on their own terms. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.”

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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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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Mickey is passionate about designing, building, and launching innovative products that drive business success.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Business starts with “busi” (23:00). ? This is all about those David and Goliath situations we all face early on in our business. If you think it’s hard to work at one of the world’s largest companies and close business, then you have not sold from a startup. Have they created something new before?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

How should we rethink our decision-making, how we run our businesses? When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. A case in point: you’re familiar with the stock photo business? War game AI for your business—offensively and defensively. Well, that industry has been terminated.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Upserve and sold that business to Vista Equity Partners. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. And that was not a success. Angus Davis: Yeah.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills. I’ve played the following roles at various tech companies.

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