Valerian Tech

JANUARY 5, 2023

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. 2017 The Third SaaStr Annual: Scale Together. 2018 The Fourth SaaStr Annual: Learn and Scale Together.

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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. And for good reason.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. 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. But after a couple million in ARR, you can afford any hire if they’re accretive.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams. Who do we outsource to?

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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. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. 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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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. The evidence that made it super clear in the end was that we were not closing big deals with technology buyers at scale. So, let me walk you through that.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). Patrick Campbell of Price Intelligently lays out the case for why a focus on pricing strategy is vital to almost every company’s bottom line.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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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. Automated Penetration Testing : Uses tools to quickly simulate attacks at scale, ideal for identifying known vulnerabilities before a more thorough manual test. What are Compliance Audits?

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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. It’s a factor of their size as they become successful – it’s hard to innovate at a very large scale. We’re complex.

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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. Now, he is setting his sights on how to scale out a larger function with more specialist roles. Channing Ferrer , VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at HubSpot.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, there’s one continuous streamlined customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, Outreach allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Are they hiring?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Want to see more content like this session?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

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. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. The best part? Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Do we have the technical support, in-house or contracted, to take on the learning curve of an emerging platform? It promises tips and strategies for Chief Information Officers and Chief Digital Officers looking to incorporate a digital experience platform. The Rise of the Digital Experience Platform E-Book From Elastic Path.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “. And of course your team changes over time – you might be scaling like crazy, so how do you make sure you haven’t already outgrown your tools and processes?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55. ” So, depends on the strategy. I don’t know if they should think anything of it.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Simmone talks about her experience building Gilt City and Kidpass as a woman of color and how she advises companies to build diversity and inclusion into their hiring practices and sales teams. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It really starts in how you’re hiring. Unconscious bias is a part of all of us.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Here are some recent trends and developments in the cloud computing space: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption: Many organizations are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers. Cloud-native development enables rapid iteration, automatic scaling, and faster time-to-market.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the past four years, I’ve worked closely with the Reforge team to create three of the 16 programs it currently offers including: Product Strategy. Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Advanced Growth Strategy. Apply to Join Reforge ].

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy. While there are many tactical elements to consider, the most successful pricing strategies are built on a strong, almost philosophical foundation: that your pricing needs to be a win-win that works for both your customers and your company.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

You understand the customer, and you understand the strategy. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. Q: FranConnect has customers of all sizes, from emerging and growing to scaling and enterprise. You run the gamut.

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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. After Jebbit raised its Series B, Michael Marcus, VP of Customer Success (CS), sat down with his team to plan their scale-up operations.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We were talking to Sean Place, who was the co founder and CTO, and it turned out that they were just giving gift cards to these drivers, but they had no way to authorize the right transaction at the right time for the right amount. We can help you scale your business, or you can go with an inferior solution. We did that.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? It’s the first survey of its kind and the PMA is hoping that with this level of detail in tow, product marketers worldwide will be able to put strategies in place to focus on their personal bottom line, as well as their business’. What is their ROI? Here are a few teasers. And for some U.S.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. When I chatted with [ VP of Engineering Lorinda Brandon ], she said that her management strategy doesn’t change based on the product, but it might change based on the people. That was very exciting to me.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

Part of that does come down to our overall strategy of offering best-in-breed solutions to problems, but that doesn’t necessarily mean one solution. That might mean two, or more, but we were able to scale and provide solutions when one didn’t fit. How about from your team’s perspective? Send us an email here.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. It should last even as your company scales and grows. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates.

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