SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pace of innovation in the ecommerce industry is accelerating, and we aspire to play a significant role in leading this charge. With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We added three new executives to our team.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. Beyond education, Carlos is the author of The Product Book and the guy behind multiple industry events and initiatives. It isn’t the lack of team adoption or poor implementation of new tech. That’s crazy! The main reason? There’s more.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. The same thing is true with calendar events distributed over email. You take, for example, the iPhone.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Just two years ago what type of services you had.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

2023 has commenced with a plethora of business challenges, but innovation is still going to be on the minds of engineering teams worldwide. We have shortlisted the top full-stack developer events you should consider attending to learn about the latest trends, engage with influencers, and improve your networking.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome no credible timing event. Find innovators (10:36). ? How to overcome no credible timing event (18:32). ? Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. Have they created something new before? How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome limited sales support.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. SaaS Community Marketing: 11 stories from software companies. We have received over 2.6k

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despina is now the organizer of PLG Disrupt Summit , a popular PLG Gathering and networking event. She is a true growth champion and a featured speaker at top global events. Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Despina Exadaktylou. A True PLG Pioneer. #3

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. Casey: It’s not that easy? Peter: By the way, it’s a gorgeous day in San Francisco! Absolutely beautiful.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The key takeaway is that full automation is the new expectation, and it takes time and resources to build, but the cost will go down with advancements in technology and infrastructure. Creating a sense of urgency, such as a deadline for a critical event like Black Friday , can help drive the team to deliver on time.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch. Robert Kern, CTO & Co-Founder, PredictHQ. Trial ending notification.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

Meta AI Releases Llama 2 Meta’s Llama 2 release is a seminal event, given that (a) Meta’s initial LLaMA 1 release spawned AI March Madness , (b) Llama 2 is substantially more capable than the first LLaMA, and (c) This time Meta is allowing as opposed to blocking commercial use. I’ll concentrate in two areas.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It normally takes years for a new team to master Le Mans’ triple requirements: speed, reliability, and teamwork. What motivates me to watch a single sporting event, a single race, for 24 full hours?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Before diving into your questions, you’ll want to head over to the link below and sign up for an exciting event coming up this week. Q: What Do You Think AI Will Do to the Next Generation of Innovators and Disruptors? Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Will It Affect Entry Level Jobs? We’ll see,” Jason says.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). Interested to learn more, click here.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Harry : It’s being innovating on those themes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc. Just to name a few.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And my retort was, for the first year, basically, well they’re the team that’s got my here so I’m going to stick with it, which I did for a year and then we kind of started turning around a little bit and saying, look, yeah, but are we growing as fast as we could be given the new reality of the ground? Vlad: So what’s the new reality?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. I believe Text AI will follow the same “sustained explosion” trajectory of innovation seen in Art AI. I do not have knowledge of events, developments, or advancements that occurred after that date.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company. Loving our podcast content? Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 1937, mail order was as innovative and disruptive as e-commerce in 1999. In fact, according to Paul Collins’ 2008 New York Times article The Oddball Know-It-All , Herter’s catalog printer Brown Printing, also located in Waseca, MN, grew with Herter’s to become “one of the country’s largest commercial printers.”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future. We’re already in this like a new gen.”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We add human touches to as many things as possible, and then we innovate and listen to our employees, at scale, and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? ” Or, “Every lamb chop came from New Zealand?”

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the past year, I’ve visualized over 100 talks in real-time at 20+ conferences and events on a range of topics. The New Sales is about Relationships. Jensen Harris, CTO of Textio, described just how broad this reaches. “If So as salespeople, we have to prepare for — and embrace — this new normal. Winners do the latter.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

44:31 The power of community and in-person events. So you guys are open up a new chapter down there. Casey Woo: Yeah, I, I have a thing where when I start a new CFO role, I sit down the entire team and I think one, one of the most important things for leadership is setting the mindset and the, and the tone. They might be new.

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