SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

From improving customer experience to streamlining operations, technology has revolutionized the way hospitality businesses operate and given companies access to extremely valuable insights. By embracing mobile check-ins, digital concierge services, and personalized recommendations, hotels can create seamless and memorable experiences.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. We were like 18 people at the time.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. . Click To Tweet.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. When that person goes to their colleagues and says, “ I want to buy this ,” and they say, “ Buy from who?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. in debt to buy out their investors.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. Tweet this quote. Tweet this quote.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. In fact, that's probably better for everyone than if you found that out after they've been hired.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. And so I’m speaking specifically about the space that I’m operating in within New Relic. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future.

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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

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Trend #2: Growth is not marketing; Growth is operations. This is not new.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? Yousuf Khan: So a phenomenal company and a phenomenal opportunity to be part of, really just honored to basically join a great team and a great culture. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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Stax

APRIL 16, 2025

Stax CTO, Mark Sundt , recently sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS for an eye-opening conversation about the exciting future of AI and how it’s poised to revolutionize the business world. Mark adds, I do this all the time with my cell phone bill. I can ask, what kind of bill is this?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. I feel like if you listen to us for 60 straight days, there's going to be a part of your brain that's good, but a part that gets corrupted slightly. Sam: Got it.

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Scytale

APRIL 14, 2025

Regarding effective risk management , pretty much all compliance frameworks include regular security awareness training (SAT) programs as a basic requirement. Still, you don’t have a fighting chance without influencing the day-to-day security culture of operating securely or without implementing a behavioral change.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Guest Speaker (Cassie Young): LinkedIn Primary VC Host (Scott Barker): LinkedIn Newsletter Find GTMnow (GTMfund’s Media Brand): Website LinkedIn Twitter/X YouTube Podcast Sponsor: Pursuit The best talent isn’t actively job hunting. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30)

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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