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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2. Solve Hard Technical Problems Create multiple moats Patent protection Technical innovation Market leadership 2. Black Friday playbook) 3.

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IBM’s $7B Bet on Vertical AI and What It Means for SaaS Founders

SaaStr

What’s Next The next 12-18 months will be critical for SaaS companies looking to establish leadership in vertical AI. cost savings, 35% time savings The Partner Ecosystem Play IBM isn’t going it alone.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.

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How to Know When It’s Time to Hire a CISO with Adversarial Risk Management Founder Jerry Perullo and SafeBase Director of Strategy and Operations Macy Mody (Video)

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual 2022, he shared with SafeBase Director of Strategy and Operations Macy Mody how to know when it’s time to hire a CISO and what you should be doing even before you hire one. Compliance. Compliance. compliance can feel incredibly daunting. Secure Compliance. Why should you hire a CISO.

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5 Tips to Reduce the Enterprise Sales Cycle With TripActions’ GM: SaaStr Podcast 472 and Video

SaaStr

This strategy reduces time to revenue since the rep is focused on getting the account up and running. Enterprise clients expect a high level of security, compliance and legal protections as a given, so you should have things in place, like GDPR and certifications like SOC-2, PCI, etc. Pick Your Lane. Leverage Executives.

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Cracking the Code to Hypergrowth: 5 Strategies From Vanta’s CEO and Founder

SaaStr

Hypergrowth in today’s highly competitive and budget-constrained SaaS world may be less frequent now, but Vanta, the software tool empowering security companies to achieve compliance and manage risk, has defied the odds. With a multi-billion dollar valuation and a trajectory to double growth annually, Vanta is seizing the spotlight.

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

SaaStr

You also have a technology decision maker whose job is strategy: ensuring the execution of the implementation is driven by strategy and that the CXO, risk and compliance, and the business owners know what’s going on. Events and media meetings allow you to showcase your product suite and thought leadership. #2:

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