SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Elisa Steele is the CEO of Namely and board member of Splunk, Cornerstone OnDemand as well as an advisor to Tile and People.ai. Over the years, Dug has been an advisor to many startups from Mu Dynamics, Olark and Tech Brewery to Trace and Stratos Card. He is also a Techstars mentor and sits on the board of Censys.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the UKs tech startup ecosystem continues to thrive, visionary founders are driving innovation across various industries, shaping the future of technology , finance , healthcare , and beyond. In this article, we highlight the top 10 tech startup founders in the UK for 2025 (who you should be following if you arent already!),

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Welcome to In CASEYou Missed It , where I take a brief break from my Weekly Walks to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative personalities behind the greatest startups in the world. And if I could do that and coach baseball… it’d be the jam. The post ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz appeared first on OpenView.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. 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.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Do you think it’s possible to combine e.g. working in tech startups with family life/motherhood? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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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. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: I’ve read a lot about difficulties in startups becoming SOC 2 Compliant.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Please join us for tomorrow’s SaaS Product Power Breakfast where we’ll speak with Dan Faulkner , CTO of Plannuh , about building great product teams. I serve as an advisor to Plannuh and I wrote the foreword for their book, The Next CMO , which Dan co-authored with Plannuh founder and CEO Peter Mahoney.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wouldn’t it take away from allowing managers to manage and coach — not to mention the monstrous to-do lists of VPs and CEOs? Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. Third, review the critical areas where reps may need the most support.

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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. Hi inov also manages SNCF Digital Ventures, a corporate fund intended to invest in startups that accelerate the group’s digital transformation.

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Kellblog

APRIL 4, 2021

The CEO said to the CTO as we were leaving, “spend the $9M anyway.” Your investors and advisors will have plenty of opinions but if you end up buried, you will be buried alone. Unlike your VCs and advisors, you have but one life to give for your company [3]. The meeting adjourned shortly thereafter.

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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 If you are a smaller team, I recommend not to categorize your CTO or the Sales Leader in G&A until they have at least a few people in their teams. Use area charts for more detail.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. RELATED: How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

What Lilach is Known For: As a coach who believes in the power of positive thinking, Lilach is known for helping businesses go from zero to 60 through her unique strategies and exercises. Why Rand is Successful: Rand speaks frankly and with humor, as shown in his book Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Guide to the Startup World.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

As the founding coach for SDR Nation, she helps those early in their sales career nail their jobs and get their net promotion. Ask Mary about what she sees as missed revenue growth opportunities at second-stage startups.). His company Revenue Grid is all about moving on to the next phase in CRM- Guided Selling and Coaching.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Chorus records, transcribes, and analyzes business conversations in real time to coach reps on how to become top performers. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. Now of course, we want to thank our sponsors. The first is Chorus.ai. Our second sponsor is Outreach.io.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

He was a VP of product at a series D startup, so a little bit ahead of us and we just had a real connection. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this. Two years ago at SaaStr, I was huddled up in a room trying to close on a chief product officer. Real connection, but there was a catch. I had a good sense.

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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. Hi inov also manages SNCF Digital Ventures, a corporate fund intended to invest in startups that accelerate the group’s digital transformation.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. A few years later, joined a startup. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I was working with a company that … Because people will write big checks today into early stage companies, where someone came in very early and gave an early startup $50 million too early, and just started telling them how to raise the company, immediately told them to go buy competitors, which they’re not ready for.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Many technology roles, at startups in particular, have an issue with career progression. Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. Option 2: Become an Analytics Manager.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Welcome to In CASEYou Missed It, where I take a brief break from my Weekly Walks to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative personalities behind the greatest startups in the world. Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. What’s the best part of your job? Growing leaders. Meet Yamini Rangan, Chief Customer Officer at HubSpot.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! What does it feel like to be a female CTO?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to In CASEYou Missed It , where I take a brief break from my Weekly Walks to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative personalities behind the greatest startups in the world. Early in my career, I had a mentor who always said, “Your team is everything.” ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

A couple weeks into my summer internship at Netscape, I met a guy named Mike McCue who really became my mentor at Netscape. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. Talk to us about what you mean there.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Just prior to Sapper, my job was basically to go in and be the head of sales at a different startup. I am the head of sales for a startup company in a basement office in the Silicon Prairie of St. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. This guy is a mental toughness coach. I took a job.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most popular sessions at SaaStr Annual, Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker is up at the top of our must-watch list. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Don’t be that guy with your startup. The reality is most startups fail.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Don’t be that guy with your startup. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. The reality is most startups fail. I really try to never lose a game of chicken. Don’t be that guy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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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. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. He’d work with me at our prior startup NICU.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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