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. Obviously, I can’t imagine a chief executive not having loss of sleep over building a management team. Mallun : Sure.

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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. You’ll find out tomorrow.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

We tend to find that there are three key technology initiatives that we can help our customers with when they’re undergoing a digital transformation. We had to develop empathy for those customers and I’ll talk more about that in a minute too. Hire builders who are experienced, strategic, and agile.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. Stax’s mission and commitment to unlock partner and customer success through its innovative technology really resonates with me,” said Krahl. “I Stax Payments , Inc.,

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I imagine when you’re working with companies like those that you’ve consulted with over the years, you end up repeating many ideas over and over. Laura: Exactly.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! With the sheer volume of queries arriving in the Inbox, it can be difficult to find the right words. This saves us a ton of time and enables us to assist even more clients.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Yet they live on borrowed time. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need to know as much about your audience as possible so you can find them where they are and know how to communicate with them. With so many automated personalization tools available, they need to be part of your marketing mix. Over-developed websites are slow to load. Website Creation. Ecommerce Inspiration. I love this.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33]. The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Are they hiring?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

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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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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

DevOps is a software development methodology that can help legacy businesses streamline their digital transformation efforts. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. The idea was simple: use empirical evidence to develop products iteratively in small increments. Traditionally, the product function fell under Technology. More than 50% of Fortune 100 have a Chief Product Officer (CPO).

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. Critical questions throughout the article will guide the reader in developing an effective pricing strategy. Find out here.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s part of everyone’s DNA, and I do recognize that.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. We chat with Maggie about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

This is your chance to minimise your tech footprint by refactoring applications to work on common environments and reducing the number of moving parts. This is a great time to share these learnings across team and functional boundaries. This is where you start eliminating every superfluous manual intervention in your delivery process.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? I personally find it surprising that a SaaS company’s forecast may often include such an expense breakdown – as it should – but the company’s actuals are a mere black box. New Gross Margins?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. of the $3.5M

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But for some reason the importance of the CMO building trust internally doesn’t get discussed nearly as often—yet it might be the single most important skill for a marketing leader to develop. Co-founder Marketing Consultant Full-time Head of Marketing Here’s an overview of how the trust building process has differed in each capacity.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despina is one of the most proactive and inspiring PLG experts you can find today. Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Sachin is a seasoned PLG expert who is constantly developing new product strategies. 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Find nothing—vacuum. Drill down on the current AI emergence, find so much that, like me, you’ll have trouble even keeping up. Both developments lead in the direction of “we can build something great ourselves without depending on OpenAI or equivalent” … ChatGPT as a weird intern.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

Besides finding the examples very useful , I noted that OpenAI shared these as a Jupyter Notebook , rather than as a traditional Python project. So I dropped in over at ObservableHQ to get up to speed on Observable Notebooks—only to find that Observable had changed course. Mix and match at will. You might be surprised.

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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. Investors should immediately engage with the CTO to assess their technical capabilities and potential, as great CTOs can demonstrate their exceptional skills quickly. Is it sustainable?

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? These are the primal questions you will find answers to in this article. Business consultants Human resource Consultants Lawyers Accountants. QBRs ensure that companies deliver customer outcomes in a timely manner by encouraging meetings and conversations.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can access the latest information, insights, trends, and data to enhance your knowledge of the latest SaaS industry developments. He often shares his knowledge on Twitter and LinkedIn regarding SaaS marketing and product development. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So I was doing environmental consulting.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time. Sales enablement is easy.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. It made sense then.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Finding space in a crowded category. Alexa: That is such helpful advice.

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