SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. “Have better Onboarding.”

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

Part-Time VPE 290

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

is committed to empowering businesses to build powerful enterprise grade applications without the need for extensive coding expertise,” said Ben Hubbard, CTO at ues.io. This will allow our users to streamline their workflows, improve customer experiences, and unlock new revenue opportunities.” application. Key benefits for ues.io

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. If you have an Enterprise or sales-led motion with humans onboarding and handholding, that fails in self-serve. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Product marketing is neither marketing nor product. It’s up to you.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of my comprehensive Buffer onboarding — which had me up and running at full speed in a matter of weeks — I was tasked with setting up intro calls with the company executives.  I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. After all, a CTO can’t handhold the entire deal cycle, but they can jump in and provide clarity and an expert voice at critical points. Who doesn’t love a good combo of ham, egg and cheese?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Well, in the past several years, there’s been a tremendous number of companies that have built specifically for developers and use this as a way to get into these new markets, to displace incumbents and disrupt the competition. You have the opportunity to upsell new features and capabilities to them. The contract size grows.

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

For example, I can give input on the data base schema if I want to, or if I have a strong opinion, but the CTO or the tech lead makes that final call. Laura: I’m glad you asked, because my CTO currently lives in Hawaii. Where can our listeners go to keep up with what’s new with you? I’m in Silicon Valley.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Some of the things we talked about were operational overhead and cost of various data stores we were running, along with whether or not we needed to hire dedicated database administrators for various different technologies. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. He said, “I want to run less software, not more software.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO. That’s it.”

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“We put a lot of emphasis on the user experience and trying to make the onboarding as easy as possible and not time-consuming or complicated,” Chris says. Balancing technology with a personal touch. Offering support before it’s needed.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Aviad Mizrachi, co-founder and CTO at Frontegg and Dotan Horovits, Technology Evangelist at Logz.io, converged to discuss the crucial SaaS Observability aspect. The initial onboarding is just the beginning,“ Horovits continued. Every new feature is like a mini-release for companies. What are these all about?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

“Understanding the guardrails we need to build means closely tracking meaningful change across Intercom and making sure we’re on top of new initiatives”. Understanding the guardrails we need to build means closely tracking meaningful change across Intercom and making sure we’re on top of new initiatives. Evolving security landscape.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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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? Developing a career plan.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This quarter new records were set thanks to our customers and their amazing feedback as well as growing momentum in the User Management space that helped us earn the Momentum Leader badge. We stand behind this statement by ensuring product onboarding and implementation is as simple as possible.

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SaaS Onboarding Emails

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

create their first project CTA: Upload a Video/ Make a New One/ Borrow one from us Strengths: Whereas the poem welcome email introduced the brand at large, this second Day 1 email jumps into the task at hand. It’s a new world for Wistia customers, and examples help show them what’s possible. It’s a new CTA.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. Table of Contents. is the third and most advanced generation of the Internet.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Security affects every function across your company: from onboarding and offboarding to encrypting data and managing endpoints. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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

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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. When done correctly, it’s a perfect way to enhance your user onboarding. CV templates by Canva.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this article, we introduce a new Customer Success metric to help you effectively measure the impact of your CS organization, definitively prove the ROI of Customer Success and garner eager investment from your CFO. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. These costs can be monetized or considered investments.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology? It has some unique new features, though it's not positioned around those. It turns out they don't have mental energy to spare to learn about something new.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Drive new levers of growth. Through this work, it can drive new revenue opportunities. You’ll need someone familiar with your data—perhaps a CTO or someone responsible for business operations. With this new algorithm, the Jebbit team can predict renewals at a 93% accuracy rate. Strategically allocate CS resources.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The playbook was useful in the success of the rollout and it is recommended to involve the teams that will be onboarding customers and selling the product early on. The models used by the company are changed often, with different steps having different models, and the team tests something new every week.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. I knew that we had something here when we were in the Postmates office in San Francisco. I do grocery delivery.

Merchant Services 81

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We One of the first things I learned from Sean was that if you have ten developers on your team, put five on new product and the other five on new-user activation,” she says. Always be onboarding.” .

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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. Scott Bierbryer, CEO of Leanprop.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Should they focus on the setup, the onboarding flow, the free user experience? What categories or areas (activation, onboarding, monetization, potential stages of the funnel, etc.) You need a lot of education.

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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. In general, European rounds tend to be slightly smaller and valuations slightly lower than they are in the US.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 11, 2020

On that note, we’ve also been really laser-focused in helping our support team build new and better systems to cope with that particular influx of the business right now. I also want to streamline the onboarding and offboarding experience. And so it’s my job to make sure we remove a lot of those hurdles for our employees.

CTO Hire 52

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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. Scott Bierbryer, CEO of Leanprop.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Upscope

MAY 25, 2021

This new developer hub will contain all the key information and links required for you as a developer to test and configure Upscope co-browsing. Here's an interview with our CTO on how co-browsing technology works. For security officers See an overview of Upscope's security measures here. You might not wish to do that.

Development 52

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead pitches to cross-sell and upsell new channels and features that meet client needs to achieve client KPIs. Oversee client onboarding and implementation process including product, channel and partner activation, campaign launches and ad-hoc projects. Nurture key relationships internally – product team, BD team, COO, CTO, etc.

Customer Success 19

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business. Beyond that, with new data privacy laws attribution is actually becoming more difficult and less possible than it was 5 or 10 years ago. Look for a new team.

Sales Hiring 50

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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?

Scale 169

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