SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. Is it a time?

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2019

I remember my CTO once arguing with a Fortune 500 company on a “security” concern they had which really made no sense. More here: I Never Lost a Customer I Actually Visited | SaaStr Not hiring a full-time RFP person. Not hiring a full-time Chief Security & Compliance Offer. Didn’t matter. They were concerned.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. I think I did this time and time again. I spend a lot of time going to events. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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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

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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Though our second day of the event is focused on mythical creatures of all kinds, you’ll find that there are unicorns hiding in our agenda every day this year. Well, we did the heavy lifting and highlighted a few here for you… “When to Hire and When to Automate” with Zapier CEO Wade Foster. The Unicorns ??.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Why most SaaS companies are blind to some of the best talent on the market By Geoff Roberts 9 min read I believe that most SaaS companies are missing out of a major opportunity when hiring—the opportunity to hire more part-time help, where the employee acts as a fully integrated (albeit part-time) member of the team on an ongoing basis.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. We were not an enterprise company yet.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And then, invest your energy and time into the product. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

Therefore, investing in robust cybersecurity measures is essential to safeguard against these threats. The Role of Fractional CTO in Enhancing Cybersecurity A Fractional CTO can provide invaluable expertise and guidance in strengthening an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome no credible timing event. How to overcome no credible timing event (18:32). ? This is a relationship worth investing in. Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? How to overcome no brand in market.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. You can use them the next time you need to convince your manager brand investment makes sense. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Full post. . Full post. Create Heroes.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I looked back at our investment memo, it was a 2K ACV when Jason invested after Y-C. So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 19, 2023

Safeguarding Intellectual Property Healthcare companies invest heavily in research and development to drive innovation in medical treatments, technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Healthcare companies face potential fines, lawsuits, and damage to their reputation in the event of a breach.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In February 2021 Intercom’s CEO Karen Peacock and recently appointed CRO Leandra Fishman spoke at an internal staff event event and we wanted to share some of the highlights with you. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Eyal Manor : But there is a lot of investment in that direction. Megan Leuders: And when you were talking to CEOs and CTOs today, what do you believe is the biggest technology challenge that they are facing as a SaaS company? So deep integration from day one of the data pipelines in real time is super critical.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, somewhat lesser-known fact about Zoom’s obviously superior video call tech is the fact that they invest less than half than an average SaaS company to their R&D, given that their Engineering offices are based in a lower-cost countries. In QuickBooks, add “Marketing” account as a subaccount of Sales & Marketing.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M of the $3.5M

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

3 Laura Grand-Hill, Event Marketing Manager at Airbase (Spend management software) says: “ Our community, Off the Ledger runs on Slack. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. These are always very easy to get published by journalists and bloggers. ”.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. This is empowering and allows me to execute at a dramatically fast pace than I otherwise could.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

Meta AI Releases Llama 2 Meta’s Llama 2 release is a seminal event, given that (a) Meta’s initial LLaMA 1 release spawned AI March Madness , (b) Llama 2 is substantially more capable than the first LLaMA, and (c) This time Meta is allowing as opposed to blocking commercial use. I’ll concentrate in two areas.

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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

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. Turned out it became who I am.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts. The idea is to provide customers with value to keep them invested with the company. If customers were to attend QBRs, they need to put in time for every application or tool in their tech stack. Discuss terms of renewal.

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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

APRIL 18, 2019

And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. The first event was four years ago. And I remember with BigMachines my first partner was Chris Shuts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

I did an event with CIOs recently. From contract signature to launch. It doesn’t take the massive amounts of infrastructure investment that it required before. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? ” Loren Padelford: And so I’d applied for contracts. Let them go.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? Okay, so what were the stages of investment rounds that you took? But the first one was, yeah, I mean, who are you and why should we invest in you? Vlad : Well we did have to hire a new CFO.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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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 do a lot of events. Ross : Yeah. It was good.”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? I think the third thing is really about the level of investment that you want to be able to make and how you measure that. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Read more about true differentiation in sales data in Primary Venture Partners’ article on why they invested in Operator. The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). We created Operator to address this very disconnect.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Loving our podcast content? They’re like, do we really need one?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

So I spent some time talking to our CEO, our CTO, and some of the board members about ways that we can go to market in a different way that might allow us to kind of break that next kind of barrier to growth. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Even though still a lot of strategic planning is involved, PR spins around media placement and throwing events. Working in-house for startups is often ‘a one man job’ as you do everything: from general comms strategy to media placements and everything in between (social media, product descriptions, attending / organising events, etc.).

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