Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky. Master The SaaS Customer Lifecycle: Acquire, Engage, Retain. Seeking financing from friends and family.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Kellblog

JULY 21, 2019

And that’s good — you’re going to get leads and engage with people in your market, not win a design competition.). While I included a picture of Slack’s Dreamforce booth, which is very fancy for most early-stage startup situations, imagine what Slack could have spent if they wanted to.

Underperforming Technical Team 77

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Cofounder Scale Startup 77

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. You could start doing active learning or do experimental design, and it’s a really exciting technical discipline at this point. Engage means that we’re not siloed.

Artificial Intelligence 88

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Scale 88

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. The best-performing startups led by technical or product founders also have investors or advisors who guide them through the early days (and often later years) of their journey. Which are you?

Sales Hiring 124

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 124

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. You don’t have to know it all; seek feedback from trusted advisors. No one does it alone. Nikki Ivey.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

While this is a great way to engage your audience and send traffic to your website, it’ll only work in your favor if you have a solid plan in place. It uses AI to help you find a cofounder, additional member, or advisor based on a certain set of criteria. Followerwonk. The best digital marketing tools make life easier.

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Payment Methods Social Media Marketing Business 144

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.

Sales Hiring 308

Sales Hiring Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 308

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. Do you think that’s a luxury that maybe only larger companies with more elastic budgets should engage with, advice wise?

Sales Hiring 241

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 241

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

Kyle Parrish: To reference that sales learning curve article that I mentioned earlier, I think for me early on, especially with our product, we’re selling to a technical audience. You’ve got to have a technical aptitude and excitement for the product.

Sales Hiring 275

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Sales 275

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Jason Vandeboom is the Founder of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and engage with their customers. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. We would absolutely not do it that way.

Outsourcing Services 138

Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 138