SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Q: What are the Odds of Success for a Startup to Hit $100M in Revenue? All startups are trying to figure out how to grow. You have to learn it yourself.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. She has been around the globe, working in startups and digital agencies in Brazil, Germany, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. The reason? Diny Gomes.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. We’re startups, but 10 is the crazy CEO. They had low NRR all the way until 30.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. Who do we outsource to?

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. How does a startup benefit from this? Zscaler is growing 32% at $2.2B.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. If spending $20,000 meant 200 new customers, spending $25,000 would result in 250.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

This is my third startup. Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud. A few years ago, Louis wrote an excellent article titled Routes to Defensibility for your AI Startup.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. A simple control panel brings it all together and makes infrastructure management easy. Where Web 2.0

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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. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

A lot of startups built the equivalent of Dropbox but never became Dropbox. If only we had figured out how to explain to people why they needed cloud storage :-(." My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. John has 22 years of experience in the world of startups. Here are 10 lessons we extracted from them.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. Vlad: So what’s the new reality?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. And made a lot of sense that I felt the confidence that I also have the networking side of Boston, a great, great startup community and really welcoming, and really helpful. And we continue to be in a very competitive startup scene, which is awesome, in a thriving ecosystem here in Boston.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application. Dev teams can access Frontegg’s suites as managed services on Frontegg’s highly secure and elastic cloud, or install as a Docker/K8s container on their own or in their customers’ cloud.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You also have the option of getting certificated in trending fields like AI & ML, Cloud Management, and more. LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. Frontegg will be a sponsor of LeadDev 2023 New York. workshops, and even a hackathon.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. This is not new.

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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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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. The only way you could do it is by having a single global cloud platform. Absolutely beautiful.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Startup CEOs generally fall into one of two categories and the category is likely to predict how they will approach the ownership issue. When you’re CEO of a startup there is no boss and there are no peers.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For example, if you subscribe to the New York Times , you pay a flat price per month or year. And from that flows decisions about what and who to spend time on,” says David Heinemeier Hansson , co-founder and CTO of Basecamp. “[My What is flat rate pricing? Who is using a flat rate pricing strategy? And lots of them.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The firm is an investor in no less than 40 companies from this year’s Cloud Top 100 list. 1) You can build a global SaaS winner from Europe Until a few years ago, European SaaS startups with big ambitions had to move to the US. In the last few quarters, Tiger Global has emerged as one of the most aggressive venture capital investors.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Most recently, he started and founded Upserve and grew it to become one of the largest cloud-based point-of-sale platforms for full-service restaurants in the US with over 10,000 restaurant customers and a payments platform processing over $12 billion in annual volume. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Today, we are excited to have Zvi Guterman, founder and CEO of CloudShare, which is a leading provider of specialized cloud environments. Zvi has leadership experience across a wide range of organizations, from his various fledgling startups to large national military organizations. The cloud is a huge revolution.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. He is the managing director at Foundry Group, and his insights on technology startups are useful. Brian Halligan.

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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. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. It’s in the cloud.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Ep: 299: Yousuf Khan is the Chief Information Officer @ Automation Anywhere, the only web-based and cloud-native RPA platform. What are the biggest green lights for CIOs when startups are pitching them? What are the biggest red flags CIOs see when startups are pitching them? What makes for the best buyer experience for the CIO?

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. One of them, I was the first CTO of Stubhub.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The article also emphasizes the importance of big ideas, patience, resilience, and support within the ecosystem for the success of Latin American startups.

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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. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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