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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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. The first line was, ‘With almost three decades in technology,’” he told me. At the same time, this is an area that has been underserved from a technological solution set.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

to, “When and how often is sales tax due to the state?”. So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . Say you sell a subscription-based software but you also send your customers a handy flash drive with a version of your software on it.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. And then, if they find gaps along the way, because gaps could form any day of the year, they have to remediate.

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Unbounce

JUNE 11, 2019

You’ll need to do your own due diligence on each of these tools, however. Join Unbounce CTO and Co-Founder Carl Schmidt (and 60+ other speakers from companies like Amazon and IBM) at the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference (MAICON). Learn how to build a strategy that starts leveraging AI today.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33]. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. And most of our data now as a software company it’s because that’s my background, but you as a sales professional can go to RepVue and view detailed analytics about sales organizations related to compensation data.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

No Person is an Island It is rare in B2B sales for a single buyer to make a noteworthy purchase in a vacuum, and according to the Harvard Business Review software purchases greater than $100k involve on average eight stakeholders. Buying software is more complex than ever. Examples: CTO, COO, CFO.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. Businesses must take a step back, evaluate their software investments, and rework their implementations. Now it’s time to find solutions that might fit the bill.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Digital transformations often fail due to unclear vision and outdated methods, not team adoption or tech implementation issues. He hosts Proddys, an annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding software products, and The Product Podcast. Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hiring and cultivating incredible talent on our Information Security team. Shipping is our heartbeat ” has been the motto of the Intercom R&D org from the very beginning and engineers ship code to our customer-facing production app dozens of times a day. Shipping quickly and securely. Continuous risk management.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We’re thrilled to announce that Frontegg was named a G2 Best Software Award Winner, placing #26 on the Top Security Products list alongside other best-in-class tools, such as Okta, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, GitLab, IBM Security Verify, Snyk, Datadog, and GitHub. link “Frontegg seems to get it. link “Frontegg seems to get it.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely. Software pricing strategist Jim Geisman shares three reasons why software companies often miss the mark when it comes to the delicate relationship between packaging, price, and cost.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Flexible integration with any other software, hardware or business workflow applications. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Mallun Yen : And so, what led you to decide, that okay, my first 33 hires are going to be engineers?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, is a firm believer in this idea. Hubert Palan , founder and CEO of Productboard.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Today on the show, we’re excited to have Vishal Sunak, the CEO and founder of LinkSquares where he’s responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate, legal, and finance teams with the review of their contracts. Show Introduction [00:10].

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. It would help us establish a more predictable and consistent income based on recurring revenue instead of one-time purchases. Recognizing Your Cue – Opportunities and Conviction.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Cost per development hour : Cost per development hour helps average out differences in cost between remote, in-person, and outsourced development.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Let’s face it, even the top-notch expense management software can fail your employees if they don’t use it, but it also has to be easy and simple to use. Enterprise.

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Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As businesses continue to embed payment solutions into their software platforms, ensuring compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) is more important than ever. Candice offers valuable insights into why PCI compliance is critical and how software companies can navigate this complex landscape. is essential.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Initially, businesses only see a few basic requirements, but later realize there is much more hidden below the surface as it relates to the ongoing creation and maintenance of custom code. Using precious development resources to build and maintain your own recurring billing code, and all the complexities that arise, 1.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“Our renewal rate looked great, but as we began to dig into data, we realized it was because of our CS team and their high levels of service—it wasn’t necessarily a reflection of our software, our product/go-to-market fit, or the pain we were solving in the market,” he says. “We Just like your product—and your business—health scoring evolves.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When designing your culture code, here are nine mistakes to be aware of. 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. Hamilton, Broadway show.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. Fail often, fail fast.

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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. Apple’s bag is mixed , with strength in ML-enabled silicon but weakness on AI software, particularly Siri’s grave limitations and snails-pace evolution. Once burned, twice shy.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

PLG is taking center stage across all SaaS domains due to the benefits it brings to the table. Despina is one of the most proactive and inspiring PLG experts you can find today. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Let’s begin. Speaker, Writer and Founder of Product-Led Growth Hub.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

I follow DHH and Jason Fried on Twitter and generally find myself agreeing with their often-contrarian points of view. Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. In those days, most software development happened using the lumbering, ultra-heavyweight waterfall methodology.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. ” Autonomy (project) or code monkey (tasks), which do you think your dev teams will prefer? Let there be tasks Since the dev team wasn’t handed a list of tasks, they need to develop their own. And shipping!) See you soon!”

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

For example, Amplitude is a product analytics software. For many developer tools that is actually one potential vehicle for PLG. Or there is a developer product put out by a company that builds a kind of a security vulnerability product. And they already know the software so you just need to negotiate price. That's hard.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. Is it sustainable?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Finding LPs to invest in Latin American startups is a challenge. There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. So one example is that we vet all of the reviews, right?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

star rating on G2 backed by over 7,300 verified reviews. But the internet made it easy to find prospects, and automation allowed sales teams to reach thousands at once. The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer).

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Why did you develop your PR agency in London? What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. If you have some sort of budget – I’d recommend hiring someone in-house. Since then, I’ve been on a PR mission! Tell us more about your team.

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GetUplift

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Or urge people to show up to your events or log into your software? In it, you’ll find over 30 psychological triggers and cognitive biases along with examples of exactly how to use them to increase conversions and keep your customers coming back for more. It says, “Faster real-time coverage from the field to the fans.”

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