SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. She has been around the globe, working in startups and digital agencies in Brazil, Germany, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong. She then transitioned to management consulting at YCP Holdings, where she provided financial advisory and strategic consulting.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. 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. Otherwise, we are not doing our jobs, being in the marketing space.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Making sure we have product market fit was effectively number one. Get it into the market. As the evolution of the company, as we started moving up market, started selling to enterprises, it was, “OK. Now we have to hire VP marketing who has enterprise experience.” This is my third startup. crosstalk].

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

So many of these are born digital companies and fast-growing disrupting their market space, and we love the diversity of in our customer base of both many traditional enterprises and fast-growing enterprises as well as the disruptors. We’re operating at great, great scale more every day as we serve the enterprise market even more.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. Patrick Campbell deconstructs and walks through the elements of a pricing strategy that enables startups to more effectively acquire customers. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report.

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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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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Marketing automation. Ask him about how to start a Salesforce consultancy.). Documentation and systems admin for CRMs. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 Even without any breakdowns, obviously the CEO was fully aware of the company’s increased spending in sales and marketing. To do all this, you need to divide up your Sales & Marketing to Sales, and Marketing sections, respectively.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). ? How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). First and foremost, overcoming no brand in market.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Conclusion The importance of innovation in technology cannot be overstated.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. A lot of great experience working and supporting inside sales teams, a lot of good experience with marketing and marketing ops, a lot of good experience with building products.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus Davis: Mike was the VP of Technology, and my job was to build prototypes of next generation products that our group was dreaming up. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group. And that was not a success.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. To IPO, companies need to triple their market share in their core market and have a churn rate of less than 3-4% per month. The market is flooded with capital, leading to higher valuations and unrealistic expectations.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. Aaron Levie is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder, and Chairman at Box. Top 30 SaaS Influencers You Need to Follow in 2022. Aaron Levie.

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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. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Bernadette Nixon: And so there are different things we need to do to bring to the table in crossing that chasm for our market. But as we look at our market, it’s not all created equal. And there’s no one key holy grail metric that’s out there in the market right now. Bernadette Nixon: Sure.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

Some of the best content to be found about startups is locked in books. Instead I’ve written a blog post about the nine favorite books I’ve read over the last five years have helped me understand startups and the processes that make them successful. and building a startup.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. ” And that was a great initial market. Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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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. Sam Jacobs: Do you sell to the chief marketing officer?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

403: Sam Taylor is the VP of Sales and Success @ Loom, the startup that helps you get your message across by making it easy to record instantly shareable videos. As for Sam, prior to Loom, Sam spent over 4 years at Salesforce following their acquisition of Quip, a startup Salesforce acquired for $750M where Sam was also the 1st sales leader.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

My journey started working with well-known brands such as VISA and TomTom, and since 2014 I started gradually moving to the world of startups and scaleups. Moreover, big brands have a fantastic infrastructure in place and you are working in-sync with other teams (marketing, production, sales), meaning that your campaigns are always amplified.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Today I wanted to talk to you about something a little bit unconventional, which is around doing M&A, as a startup yourself. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. So on this topic, so how like what are the things, what would you consider, why would I start up, be buying another startup?

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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. Integrate email marketing (HubSpot).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

. * What are the biggest green lights for CIOs when startups are pitching them? What are the biggest red flags CIOs see when startups are pitching them? What must startups always remember when pitching CIOs? * What must startups remember about how CIOs think about price? Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Startup CEOs generally fall into one of two categories and the category is likely to predict how they will approach the ownership issue. While virtually all hired CEOs have been large-tech CXOs or GMs, not all large-tech CXOs or GMs are wired to be successful as CEOs in the more frenetic world of startups. Never surprise the boss.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Michael Seibel, YC Partner and CEO of YC’s Startup Accelerator @ Y Combinator. Jeffrey Yoshimura, CMO and Customer Experience Officer @ Snyk. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously, he was an operating partner at Fractal Software, helping launch vertical software companies and find product-market fit.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. All startups have issues and challenges, and all deals have some “hair” on them. A stock option plan that is too small, without back-up or consultation. Not let it evaporate.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Prior to Sailthru, Cassie served as VP Marketing & Analytics at Gerson Lehrman Group (“GLG”) and as VP Marketing & Growth for Savored (acquired by Groupon). Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. You know, startup experience and then at larger companies.

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