SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Get best price tickets here!!! Is it a particular event that triggers it? 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. Is it a time?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

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 found many new ways to stay connected and have some fun, and it was inspiring to see how well morale has held up in light of the circumstances. We acquired SalesRight.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Quick recap: Keep your pricing simple. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. 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. Take advantage of your VCs connections.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Maybe endless price increases,” Jason says. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B UiPath saw a huge drop of 30%.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Pricing and packaging strategies. Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? But as from a company standpoint, I don’t necessarily love them and their pricing and lack of customer service. Let’s find a new shirt. So what events do you go to?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Beyond education, Carlos is the author of The Product Book and the guy behind multiple industry events and initiatives. He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year. Why do digital transformations fail? Did you know?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. Caught your interest?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. 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.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. workshops, and even a hackathon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? Who are the new developers?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome no credible timing event. How to overcome no credible timing event (18:32). ? Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? How to overcome no brand in market.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Not only does your sales team need to bring new customers through the door, but they also need to ensure that what they’re selling matches up exactly with those customers’ expectations. One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms. B2C pricing.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

We’ve already begun to crack these problems with our algorithms around subscription pricing and ProfitWell Retain ’s focus on subscription retention. When you’re trying to grow from $1M to $100M in ARR, there are pricing permutations, retention problems, and inflexible tech stacks holding you back. Pricing & retention benchmarks.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

After a certain amount of time, if the customer doesn’t make their payment, their account will typically get canceled or downgraded depending on your pricing model. Cheers Paul Juicer CTO. You don’t necessarily have to write completely new copy for each email. Those emails are called dunning emails. Card should be working?

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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. The process to change price points can’t happen in real-time.

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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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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.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. 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. Is the CTO involved in these decisions?

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2021

A new edition, new services, an outbound sales team, an account management / upsell team. Something new to boost your ACV and TCV. Double your pricing for new customer, on the largest deals. At least by the time you are hiring 1 new employee per month. In any event, delegate more. Add a layer.

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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

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. The first event was four years ago. But back then the only way we could do it is we’d have our user conference, we have events, but that could only happen once a year. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

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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?

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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 Mark’s decision to eliminate credits – a disliked industry standard – goes beyond pricing strategy. Arrows – launched brand new CRM Cards for HubSpot.

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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. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category. So he’s the CTO? QUESTION 9: Comfortable with a new VP of Sales coming in and using an outside coach. I think I didn’t answer your question.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Why does Yousuf believe now more than ever, the buyer experience is more important than the price? How does Yousuf advise CIOs to approach pricing strategy when pitching CIOs? What must startups remember about how CIOs think about price?

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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 do not have knowledge of events, developments, or advancements that occurred after that date. Caveat: a few days later, OpenAI released GPT-4, with premium prices.) What is that date? HOLD MY BEER!”

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Having been at Unbounce for 4 years now, I’ve seen CTAConf grow from a grassroots sproutling with 300 attendees to a 1,000-person event taking over the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. It’s fantastic to be at a conference that is invested at up-levelling experienced digital marketers, not just new ones. CTAConf pic.twitter.com/hU8OOgcmGB.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Loving our podcast content?

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GetUplift

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Or urge people to show up to your events or log into your software? ” At the end, it says, “Paul, CTO, 21st Century Fox.” You may know all of these techniques now, but it was quite new when they went up with it. Another cool way, by the way, to use this principle of unity is in your pricing plans.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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.” And here we arrive at another surprise turn of events.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. Be like, "And we got it at a fantastic price." Dharmesh: Which you can take the number of shares, which is on the public record and multiply it by the current price and get. You don't really need to check the prices when you go do things. So this is Dharmesh. Dharmesh is the.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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