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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The real conflict is around trying to serve both sets of messaging and marketing at the same time since how you market to SMBs is very different than Enterprise customers. 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

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 endless price increases,” Jason says. How does a startup benefit from this?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In part, my shift in thinking could pertain to not being the “front man” handling the pitch. But thanks to our VP of Business Development, I realize team-based selling for an early-stage startup or company is still likely a necessity, and far outweighs specialization when your sales org is fewer than five people or so. Solution review.

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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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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. How to overcome no credible timing event. All right guys, welcome to the Sales Hacker’s Success Summit presentation, How To Close The Enterprise When You Are Just A Startup. What You’ll Learn.

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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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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In this framework, you’ll learn how to design a scoring system that aligns to your growth strategy, brainstorm and select leader indicators of success, and operationalize the system across your startup. In HubSpot’s case, we eventually hired a world-class data science team, but our scoring only improved by a few points,” notes Redbord.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Pricing and packaging strategies. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Ask him about his thoughts on what companies are looking for in a RevOps role or where companies go wrong trying to hire/ build their RevOps function.).

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. QuikNode wants to see technology transform decentralized applications, smart contracts, decentralized governance, voting systems, and more. There are so many things that can be evolved,” says Shklovsky.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Thanks for everyone who took the time to write their impressions and share with the community. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. Full post. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. I think different startups will choose different paths here. You know, incumbents versus startups.

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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. That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

A lot of startups built the equivalent of Dropbox but never became Dropbox. However, it became flooded with competitors who described themselves the same way and they found that competing on price for high value complicated work is difficult. Summary of how to 8X your price. Why positioning matters? That has changed completely.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people. With the full BOOK of instructions, we get busy hiring.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

While the CTOs may be directly involved in the purchase decision-making at the startup and SMB organizations, the role of the CTO at larger organizations can be very different, and not all CTOs look the same. “A A lot of our clients want to target CTOs or C-level executives,” said Valentino Volonghi, CTO of AdRoll.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. Experienced VPs with a track record of building successful companies have been hired across multiple functions.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. It was pretty easy being an SDR for Marc Andreessen because he’d been on the cover of Time magazine. .” Talk to us about what you mean there.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

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. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

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. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. When you’re mature, raising prices by $1 might make sense.

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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

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. We see that guy all the time down in LA. Don’t be that guy with your startup.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. There is more capital available to startups than ever before. The influx of capital has made it easier for startups to raise money, but it has also led to higher valuations and more competition. Is it sustainable?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We see that guy all the time down in LA. Don’t be that guy with your startup. He would, time after time, point to an area that I had completely missed. Cannot put a price on that. The reality is most startups fail. We failed almost many times.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. He is the managing director at Foundry Group, and his insights on technology startups are useful. Casey Winters is a growth and SaaS marketing expert who has transformed how startups grow and scale into large companies. David Skok.

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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

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. He’d work with me at our prior startup NICU.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

When you don’t necessarily have a startup there. It’s like we’re going to put pictures online with a price and you’re going to start marketing it and that’s the thing. From contract signature to launch. Touching it, playing with it in a way a CIO or CTO might not before? ” Right?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

. * What are the biggest green lights for CIOs when startups are pitching them? Why does Yousuf believe now more than ever, the buyer experience is more important than the price? What are the biggest red flags CIOs see when startups are pitching them? What must startups always remember when pitching CIOs? *

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. It’s that simple. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Mark’s decision to eliminate credits – a disliked industry standard – goes beyond pricing strategy. The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). It’s purpose-built to turn flat, commoditized data into dynamic, 3D insights.

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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’ve had to hire really smart, driven, intellectually?curious

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. 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.

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