SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Jessie provides invaluable know-how to portfolio companies on cash flow, fundraising, and financing strategies. Her specialties are SME digitalization strategy, CRM and sales growth, and business process optimization.

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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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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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. Make sure you have customer nurturing strategies in place. So, when you’re developing a new idea, ask yourself, “What problem am I solving?”. Communication. Website Creation.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. Meanwhile, Intercom’s infrastructure grew, the architectures evolved, our product got way bigger, and we hired a bunch of new people who had different engineering skills.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

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. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. He also organizes ProductCon, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, New York, and London and attracts thousands of product professionals every year. Importance of clear product strategy in the age of AI. Did you know?

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

What Jay is Known For: Working with high-profile brands on innovative marketing campaigns, including Kindred Healthcare, Arizona State University, and Hilton. Why Lilach is Successful: More than business strategy, Lilach draws on the power of a positive mindset as a force to supercharge entrepreneurial success. Ann Handley.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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Panintelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we asked Panintelligence CEO Zandra Moore and CTO Ken Miller what they think are some of the most frequent mistakes in SaaS development and offer actionable insights to help you steer clear of them. But keeping what you’ve got is as important as bringing in new customers.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? As new options roll out, keeping customer experiences seamless and continuous across all digital platforms grows is highly important. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I guess, if my strategy was to show up and to try and lead an $80 million round and write a $50 million check to do that, and you’re like, “Wait a second, 275 divided by five people, your piece of that’s probably 55. ” So, depends on the strategy. I don’t know if they should think anything of it.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

However, they are still relatively new and their value can be extremely volatile, making them a high-risk investment for some people. A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform. What is a Cryptocurrency Project?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yes, quotas seem cruel and your pricing strategy doesn’t make sense. With the new year just around the corner, it is high time to re-examine the many excuses sales professionals make (and what to do instead). Consider other approaches such as social selling to find new prospects and grow your pipeline. Our Marketing Team Sucks.

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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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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the past four years, I’ve worked closely with the Reforge team to create three of the 16 programs it currently offers including: Product Strategy. Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Advanced Growth Strategy. Product Strategy.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Product Officer.

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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. For example, before releasing/starting to develop a new feature, we run it by our community first.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. Have they created something new before? Enlist the co-founders (06:34). ? You offer that.

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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. Sam Jacobs : We are incredibly excited today to have Simonne Taitt on the show.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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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. LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. Frontegg will be a sponsor of LeadDev 2023 New York.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In conversation with Blake Bartlett , she walked us through how B2C and B2B growth strategies compare across each phase of the customer journey from acquisition to retention and expansion. When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We Defining Growth .

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Keitan also privately helps SaaS companies enter hypergrowth with PLG strategies. With over a decade of demonstrated experience in the SaaS industry, Kyle is now fully focused on promoting cutting-edge PLG strategies and approaches.

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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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BetterCloud

JUNE 4, 2019

Like a kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, our great IT leader, the CTO, could deploy rules that would govern the perimeter of our castle. As technology has evolved, we embrace innovation. We must implement new ways to provide protection so we can embrace the cloud with minimal risk to the kingdom. It was easy once.

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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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Improving AI Agent Performance and Rollout Strategies Mitigating the limitations of AI agents can be achieved by specializing LLM prompts, investing in a test pipeline, and using evaluation data sets, which can significantly reduce errors if done carefully.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Build your next model / transformation / disruption / innovation. Both Google, and comparative upstart OpenAI, had strategies based around closed models, proprietary datasets, and eight-to-nine figure training investments. The during the madness of March, that entire strategy broke down. many of which build on each other.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin sat down with Samsara CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas to delve into the inner workings of a company that’s not only transforming its industry but is also a case study in brilliant strategy and execution. Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Everything else is just a strategy to achieve the ultimate DevOps goal of continuous improvement. After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Measure everything.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. The hard answer is no.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. Then last is do-it-yourself, and we’re really excited.

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