Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. We’ve built some exciting new features into Intercom using this new GPT technology and have given access to several hundred customers – and the response has been astounding. Our team has been using the new AI Inbox features a lot.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive. Overall, Valerian Technology can provide many benefits to your organization.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

They have been written by salespeople, CTOs, speechwriters, consultants and magnates. Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz. They range from written 70 years ago to written in the past 3 years. and building a startup.

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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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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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. In the good sense, like go and build the kind of organization and process that made them successful in the past, but you need to hire that kind of person when you’re willing to make a big investment and a big change in that area. What is good?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. We invest mainly in the growth stage, so think series B, series C, but also somethings earlier as well as some later stage buyouts. So they bought a company called Learncore.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. He has also invested in businesses, like Figma, Vanta, and Webflow, among others.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. 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. Before we get there, we have two sponsors. Sales enablement is easy. Oh, and do all of this with less time.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

It can be challenging to keep up with the evolving compliance landscape without a dedicated compliance team or the ability to invest in advanced compliance tools and technologies. Regulatory agencies frequently update guidelines and introduce new requirements to address emerging risks and changing industry dynamics.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. 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. This is not new. So what is new?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. For example, if you know your advertising spend is $20,000 a month and it results in 200 new customers, your CAC is $100. Let’s start with Payroll – Support.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many Chief Customer Officers and Customer Success (CS) leaders, this marks the beginning of a very stressful time as you prepare to have the challenging conversation with your CFO about how to properly invest in your Customer Success teams. This makes it challenging to secure investment.

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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. And that did me a great favor, that gave me like a great kickstart into this career.

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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. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. Simmone welcome to the show. Simmone Taitt : Thanks so much, Sam.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. I would say that’s number one for me personally, which means I may never work full time again, but finding a founder that you want to go invest four to five years of your life with and for because it really is. New category.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Let me be very clear—this is not an argument for consulting or the so-called gig economy and I’m not arguing against the need for full-time employees—if you’re hiring a COO, for example, you’re probably going to need that person full-time. Add 40% for benefits and other costs, and that person is costing your company $112,000 per year.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news?

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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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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. Sales enablement is easy. So what did that mean for us?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Since each Midjourney prompt creates new, unique imagery, it eliminates an entire manual step in the workflow—the need to search around for where else a stock image might have been (over-)used. When the rules of the game change. Kenzo: What game?

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. The process of building trust in a consulting capacity really focuses on the sales process.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. The scariest thing a new CEO can say is “it looks like you guys had a bad quarter” [9].

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a relationship worth investing in. 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? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. I’ve never heard of them.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Hiten has a weekly SaaS newsletter that helps readers know new strategies, learn techniques, etc. He is with Sixteen Ventures, a consulting firm that helps grow SaaS companies. He led early-stage investments in Box and Yammer. Jason Lemkin.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Ok the title here is a bit dramatic, but certainly seed investing is in an odd place in 2024. Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. The best investments grow from $1 million to $10 million in 5 quarters or less. Venture capitalists are investing more money.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

Ok we’ve now got the final speaker list locked down for 2023 SaaStr Europa in LONDON on 6-7 June: CEOs, CROs and CXOS : Edith Harbaugh, Executive Chair & Co-founder @ LaunchDarkly Nowi Kallen, Managing Director @ Salesforce Ventures Spencer Kimball, CEO @ Cockroach Labs Joe Thomas, Co-founder and CEO @ Loom Sterling Snow, Former CRO @ Divvy (..)

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He and I went to MIT together.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Krahl brings more than 25 years of experience in integrated payments partnerships and sales across verticals such as healthcare, government, and technology companies, including senior level roles with Elavon, TSYS, and at his own successful consulting firm.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? So I was doing environmental consulting. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. In this case, the customer are your new colleagues. What measurements should be used to determine their success? I worked in solar.

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