CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

” This definition, to reiterate my prior post on the subject , is most useful when it applies not merely to “time-is-money”, but to the speed of learning. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. It highlighted all kinds of tools and techniques that would be useful in building a new type of self-sufficient lifestyle. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool? Process is a tool.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. 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. I’m Travis Bryant.

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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. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. 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.

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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. Make sure the key stakeholders are involved in the definition of those metrics. We’re complex.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. Caught your interest?

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? As new options roll out, keeping customer experiences seamless and continuous across all digital platforms grows is highly important. Just as important as a definition of what a digital experience platform is what it’s not.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. And it’s easy to inflate that for companies during the hiring process.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Read more about QuikNode Definitely take a look at QuikNode's blog.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. I just knew there was always going to be something new to learn and I wasn’t going to get stagnant in it. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. I knew nothing about tech. That was my perception of tech.

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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. Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Performance Officer.

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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. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. What You’ll Learn.

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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. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And a lot of the time, GPT-3 could not write as good of an answer as what the best human answer was that had been written, but it could write an answer instantly to any question. The constraint for Quora had always been the amount of time that high-quality answer writers had to answer questions. David George: Sure. Yeah, of course.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Have they done something unique before?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? Who are the new developers?

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Al Ries definition: " Positioning is not what you do to the product; it’s what you do to the mind of the prospect. Wikipedia Definition : " Positioning refers to the place that a brand occupies in the minds of the customers and how it is distinguished from the products of the competitors. Create a new category.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. It didn’t take me long to say, “Oh yeah, this is a leader I definitely want to work with and learn from.”

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. in debt to buy out their investors. The company even took $2.5M of the $3.5M

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. That would just be crazy.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. I did some traveling and ended up going to New York City. I knew the timing was right, that this was something people wanted, and it would benefit this new market as well as the hotels.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

One example: the script currently runs in CLI mode with arguments, but it’s not implemented in the latest-best-Python way, and I’d definitely want to correct that. As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. Typer from Tiangolo looks like a promising solution, by the way).

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status. ” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. Not the highest possible status, “Can It Be Tuesday Already Please?”

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The challenge in each case is the same—the company is hiring you at a lower level of commitment than a full-time hire, usually with the expectation that they will see some ROI relatively quickly. Full-time Head of Marketing I’ve been hired to lead marketing teams at four companies in a full-time capacity now.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. Jeff Winters: I’m worried you’re not going to think they’re funny, definitely not by today’s standard. ” Seriously?

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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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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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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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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