SaaStr

MAY 26, 2021

Everyone wants to be this, and thought leadership is part of the standard vernacular of PR firms and seasoned corporate marketers. And importantly, it’s not randomly pontificating on the Future of Mobile. And yet … done right, they are a critical part of your marketing and sales toolkit. Even on Day 1. But on Day 1?

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Outsourcing Services Scale Leadership Mobile 289

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2024

The best leadership finds a way even in slightly tougher times. Jason’s earliest investment had strong product market fit, but it took them four years to come out with their mobile app. The best leaders find a way. Is it easy to hire mercenary VPs when you’re growing 500%, or you’ve raised $100M? The fastest absolutely wins.

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Sales Hiring Startup Scale SMB 294

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

I now have over 130,000 followers, added brand partnerships as a new income stream for my business (earning $55,000 in 2021 and $105,000 in 2022), and even landed a book deal thanks to my thought leadership on the platform.

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Branding Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 107

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2022

Mark Ghermezian, the co-founder of Braze, takes us through his journey of reinventing a category and building Braze from an idea into a dominant player in the mobile lifecycle marketing space. As we were pioneering a new platform in the mobile ecosystem, it was vital for us to listen to our customers. Listen to your customers.

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Outsourced Development Mobile Pricing Software Development 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

2011 focused on the mobile ecosystem, as the iPhone had been released four years prior and the app store two years after that. Braze invested in this, and the leadership team agreed to do so. Let’s fast forward and look at the history of Braze. Usually, your CSMs have side projects that get derailed by more pressing matters.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Startup 284

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

Braze was founded in 2011 when the most exciting mobile apps were a compass, a flashlight, and a game where you could feed fish. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business. And it was. Both came true.

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Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 245

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From its earliest days, Braze embraced a duel set of convictions: New businesses would be mobile first. The mobile revolution would transform legacy businesses. From these convictions, Braze understood that the way companies communicate with customers before the mobile era lacked the sophistication to thrive.

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Mobile Technology Investment Innovation 256

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Nate agrees, believing that a great customer experience requires taking a holistic, strategic approach that encompasses a wide range of factors – from strategy and leadership to the voice of the customer, experience engineering, and employee experience. Strategy and leadership. Voice of the customer. Experience engineering.

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Leadership Scaling Engineering AI 218

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. Big tech takes over. .

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Previously Paul was the global head of brand design at Facebook, led product teams at Facebook, and worked in UX at Google, where he worked on Gmail, YouTube and mobile. His vision and passion have been the catalyst for much of what Intercom is today. Darragh also needs no introduction for most of you.

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Scale Sales Hiring CTO Engineering 195

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 26, 2024

Embrace thought leadership Speaking of thought leadership: building yourself up as a thought leader on platforms like LinkedIn, X, Threads, and beyond is an excellent way to future-proof your career.  Here’s a great example of Girl Power Marketing’s weekly social media round-up.

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Social Media Trends Branding Engagement 114

30 Day Leadership

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of The B2B Leadership podcast, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Tiana Schisler, director of HR and talent acquisition at mPulse Mobile. 2:04 - Social work - what is social work and how does it apply to a leadership role?

Leadership 52

Leadership Company Culture Mobile B2B 52

30 Day Leadership

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this episode of The B2B Leadership podcast, best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje speaks with Tiana Schisler, director of HR and talent acquisition at mPulse Mobile. 2:04 - Social work - what is social work and how does it apply to a leadership role? Learn more about mPulse Mobile at [link].

Leadership 52

Leadership Company Culture Mobile B2B 52

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I’m also part of the R&D leadership team, so a big focus for me is how we can improve our operations as an organization and how we continue to invest in the growth of engineers across the board. I work with designers and engineers on our mobile SDKs. Those bring Intercom’s features into our customers’ own mobile apps.

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Mobile Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 212

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Procore is worth $10B and it never really took off for years until mobile took off Squarespace took years to get to $1B ARR If you truly believe, and have even a handful of happy customers, take a break, get your mojo back. But if you still believe, push on: It took UiPath 10 years to get to $1m ARR. Today, they’re worth $12B+.

Mobile 257

Mobile Leadership 257

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. When mobile came along, they just leapfrogged straight to mobile. We noticed that mobile penetration was starting to increase.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 219

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Meanwhile, over on LinkedIn, thought leadership drives the best results. Decision-makers are spending more time each year consuming thought leadership content, with most doing so for at least one hour a week. Design Your Posts for Mobile. When it comes to our social media, mobile is king. percent use a laptop or desktop.

Social Media 143

Social Media Advertising Mobile Technical Review 143

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A survey from ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance found that 45% of marketers report seeing at least double the ROI compared to traditional marketing. Source: ITSMA and ABM Leadership Alliance ). A comic book that Gum Gum, an applied computer vision company, created for T-Mobile. Customer-centric approach to growing revenue.

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Scale Marketing Business B2B 189

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. In 2010, he joined DGF Investimentos, one of the top VC firms in Brazil. He will be the chairperson at SaaStock LatAm.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2019

Join Molly Ford, Salesforce Global Equality Programs Senior Director, and Leyla Seka, Salesforce VP of Mobile for actionable advice they have applied on their own journey. Leyla Seka – EVP of Mobile @ Salesforce. I’m the Executive Vice President of Mobile at Salesforce. Want to see more content like this session?

Company Culture 202

Company Culture Leadership Mobile Cloud 202

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. Not only that, but three of those top five slots are messenger-based: in addition to dedicated messaging platforms (such as WhatsApp and SMS), mobile applications with messaging capabilities and web-based live chat come in third and fifth respectively. Now, it’s second.

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Customer Support Scale Scaling Communication 260

SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2022

Mobile Solutions acquired by Brightfin. Greenhouse Software acquired by TPG. JAGGAER acquired by PwC France. Kenna Security acquired by Cisco. Kount acquired by Equifax. Lingotek acquired by Straker Translations. MindTouch acquired by NICE Systems. Mya Systems acquired by StepStone. Nuxeo acquired by Hyland Software.

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Market Segmentation Mobile Technology Cloud 269

SaaStr

MAY 20, 2019

Before and during SaaStr Europa, you can access the Braindate Topic Market to browse the Braindates available by downloading the SaaStr Events mobile app . Once you’re in, you can list topics you want to learn about or knowledge you would like to share. Pick something you want to learn about to schedule a Braindate.

Scale 48

Scale Mobile Scaling SaaS 48

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Discussed in this Episode: Learnings from each major company in Guy’s 20+ leadership career: Microsoft, Tradeweave (first employee and executive committee), Yahoo, Twitter, BrightRoll and Intellimize. Mobile was a kind of advertising back then. So I can’t say we’ve had an aerospace engineer on the pod. That was it.

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Scale Engineering Acquisition Scaling 102

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

No one ever claims to be the smartest in the room, and with each discussion, our members and leadership alike are growing. ”. Jialing is an entrepreneurial-minded Customer Success leader experienced in serving US-China based businesses and top companies in the mobile industry. Jialing Xie.

Scale 127

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 127

SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Word of mouth has always been good for us, so we see employee mobility as a potential tailwind as well. Don’t forget other, less obvious tailwinds as well, like brand sentiment, word-of-mouth, and employee attrition. When a PagerDuty employee leaves one company and goes to another, they take PagerDuty with them. Key takeaways.

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DevOps as a Service Scale Cloud Interviewing 269

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And we live in this really magical world of two concurrent platform shifts: the shift to mobile and the shift to the cloud. There are certain product categories where the half-life is very long, where there’s really only one chance to build a company in that space – and that’s when you have a platform shift.

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Cloud Venture Capital Social Media Technology 245

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. We’ve come a long way in a short amount of time. And then the iPhone changed everything. Suddenly, people had computers in their pockets all over the place.

Scale 245

Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 245

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

UpWork has over 350 freelance developers enhancing its core mobile and web apps. The team also boasts of an attrition rate of as low as <5%—which goes against the idea that freelancers can not be acculturated in your business. . Freelancers can also work in critical roles like product engineering.

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Scaling Artificial Intelligence Company Culture Innovation 243

Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

The mobile app industry is expected to be worth more than $407 billion (yes, with a B) by 2026. According to the Small Business Administration , your business plan should include: Executive summary: A brief outline of your company, what you will offer, and basic information about your leadership team, location, and plans for growth.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Sales Hiring 144

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They began with email, then SMS, and now mobile. How do you sequence an idea so massive? How do you build a brain for a business, marketing, and within marketing, narrowing down to which channels matter? ’ And you kind of want some lead time to start to build those products.”

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 300

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

And there’s something in your industry where you are a subject matter expert where you know how to do mobile billing, you know how to do something in your vertical area of SaaS. Jacob just taught himself, going to the first question about SEO, he taught himself how to write canonical blog posts about how to manage mobile subscriptions.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 286

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 6, 2021

” These team leads are critical for ensuring on-the-ground support for team members and keeping leadership apprised of issues that need to be addressed globally. That meant their voice didn’t have a collective ‘voice’ at the managers’ table so things went unnoticed.” Running a global customer support team.

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Customer Support Strategy Scale Retention 232

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Mobile app: Before choosing a CRM, check if their mobile app offers your team the necessary information when they’re on the go. Mobile-first design, including offline functionality. Plus Zoho CRM includes many high-end features such as predictive analytics, lead scoring, advanced reporting, mobile app and more.

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 117

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

.” Nowadays, capital is so much more mobile. But again, capital is so much more mobile. Every time we raised prices, it was a battle between us; Adam and I as the co-founders and the sales leadership and the sales managers and the sales team. Every single time it was a non-issue.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 198

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

There are three ways to go live: mobile, webcam, and encoder. Whether your audience is on mobile, desktop, or tablet, they can see you! Note to go live on mobile, you’ll need at least 100 subscribers — if you have less, then you’ll want to choose webcam. But how do you do that with Live Video?

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Sales Hiring Mobile Engagement Consulting 145

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. We have some sort of fancy command K style action menu switcher, we have a mobile app, we integrate beautifully with Slack, blah, blah, blah.

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Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249