SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2023

Ode to the $100,000,000 Exit Dear SaaStr: Should You Hire Someone That Seems Good … But Always Job Hops? SaaStr 637: Unveiling the Data Behind Effective Scaling with ICONIQ Growth General Partner Doug Pepper and ICONIQ Growth Partner & Head of Analytics Christine Edmonds    4. TAM is Great. If So, How Much?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Look at your install base, do a data analytics exercise, and understand your free and paid customers. Let the customer buy through their preferred channel.” – Kim Walsh Data: If you’re serious about building a PLG company, you need a robust, unified data platform. The next hiring focus should be growth marketing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2022

with Jenn Knight, Co-founder and CTO of AgentSync, and Daryna Kulya, Co-founder of OpenPhone. Attract, Hire & Build a Diverse Sales Team | Handshake VP, Employer Partnerships Jessica Peluso. Attract, Hire & Build a Diverse Sales Team | Handshake VP, Employer Partnerships Jessica Peluso. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

“For large enterprise customers, your stakeholder map is almost always too small” — Alex Farmer, VP CS, Cognite Data. You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. ” — Blythe Morrow, Microsoft Data Platform.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 29, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO at Wistia , wants to know what proportion of paid plans should be annual versus monthly. To answer Brendan's question, we gathered data from just over two and a half thousand subscription companies. Click to enlarge.

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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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Today, triangulation is how people prioritize who they will reach out to — what’s happening on their list of accounts, if they’ve posted a job, if they’ve hired a new CTO, etc. By examining a company, their intent data, the companies visiting their website, who’s on the pricing page, who the buyers are, etc.,

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. More time may make them better if they’re already progressing, even if it’s just 10-15% in the first sales cycle. Hiring someone too junior. That often compounds.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Using RepVue, you can figure out exactly what people are making. In some cases it does.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a SaaS business, Intercom is a data processor: our customers entrust us with their data, which we store and process on their behalf. Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. Shipping quickly and securely. Continuous risk management. There will be many more challenges ahead.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. in 12 months?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

We will use only a specific set of AWS data stores. Some of the things we talked about were operational overhead and cost of various data stores we were running, along with whether or not we needed to hire dedicated database administrators for various different technologies. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line.

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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”. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). Here are some signs to look for: When change is hard to make as a result of cascading dependencies up and down the stack.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A few months back, I was inspired by a section in Scott Barker’s “The Forecast” newsletter where he referenced some data from Chorus.ai 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. Who doesn’t love a good combo of ham, egg and cheese?

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

ISO 27001 is the leading data security standard, trusted by companies worldwide. In addition to significant losses in customer and stakeholder trust, as well as severe reputational damage, let’s consider what hurts the most when it comes to data breaches – the financial impact. What is ISO 27001? The result?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 19, 2023

Introduction In today's digital age, healthcare companies face increasing threats to the security and privacy of patient data. The potential consequences of data breaches, such as financial losses, reputational damage, and loss of patient trust, highlight the critical importance of robust data security measures.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when we realized we had to go hire some experienced enterprise go-to-market leaders, like Heather Zynczak who runs marketing at Pluralsight. We realized that what the CTO and the CIO need to know is what skills do I have, what technology skills exist in my business, what skills are missing relative to my tech strategy?

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Panintelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we asked Panintelligence CEO Zandra Moore and CTO Ken Miller what they think are some of the most frequent mistakes in SaaS development and offer actionable insights to help you steer clear of them. Finally, access to data in the first place is also a big problem we see. That they only want simple data insights.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

With the rising frequency and sophistication of cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive customer data and protecting against potential breaches is of paramount importance. Protecting this data from cyber threats is crucial for maintaining customer trust and complying with stringent data protection regulations.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

We spent a lot of time and effort setting up that foundational system, making sure that our data was really good. “The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing.

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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. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. ” And so I tried it initially, I think it was toward the end of my time at Google actually.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Penetration Testing Explained Imagine you hire someone to try to break into your business – not physically, but digitally. If penetration testing is like hiring a hacker to test your defenses against security threats, then a compliance audit is like inviting an official inspector to verify whether you’re playing by the rules.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. It is no better than the data that you feed into it, and it has no soul. Balancing human-computer interaction. “AI is fancy statistics.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s a lot of companies now in our portfolio that have been very successful like Collibra, who became sort of a data insights category and it started with cataloging and then they added lineage. They defined what data insights is. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Introduction In the competitive landscape of e-commerce, leveraging data analytics has become crucial for businesses seeking sustainable growth. Efficient data analytics allows e-commerce companies to gain valuable insights into customer behavior, optimize their operations, and make informed business decisions.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka. Find out here.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2020

When you ask average questions, you get average hires. If a potential senior hire has gotten so far as to talk with the CEO , she’s probably someone the company wants. Related: Are You Hiring for Culture Fit or Culture Add? For example, I met with a new client recently, the CTO of a fin-tech startup.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. On top of requiring a separate 2-person team to support this homegrown solution, they also had a hard time collecting and trusting the data in Looker. Click To Tweet. How was that possible?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Although the specifics vary by the product or vendor, a digital experience platform is a single digital hub that allows a brand to use data and AI to create and deploy custom content experiences for consumers and integrate them for consumption across an array of digital and other ecosystems. It’s essentially a further evolution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data. Security affects every function across your company: from onboarding and offboarding to encrypting data and managing endpoints.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Baremetrics spoke with co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky to learn more about QuikNode and how they use Baremetrics to understand key financial metrics, translate cancellation data to inform product iteration, and sustain long-term growth. When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

So before committing to Jupyter Notebook / Jupyter Lab, I did a quick survey of the state of the art in data notebooks—was there an up-and-coming alternative to Jupyter I should be looking at? The majority of their team are data scientists. R is widely used in agricultural data and particularly soil analysis.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. Product is now at the C-level: More than 50% of Fortune 100 have a Chief Product Officer (CPO) who no longer reports to the CTO but directly to the CEO. Turning data into insights AI enables product teams to democratize data and improve decision-making.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In most companies, though, Finance and various “Ops” groups spend huge amounts of time pulling together data from various systems (which are still based on siloed functional areas) to eventually come up with one set of the “truth” in order to provide Management with the data for decision-making. Chief People Officer.

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