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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. with Olivier Adam, Chief Growth Officer at ReferralCandy Successful Scaling Across Markets, Lessons in Marketing & Building GTM with IvyCap’s MP with Ashish Wadhwani, Co-founder and Managing Partner.

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How to Stop Micromanaging After $1m-$2m ARR. You Have To.

SaaStr

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. Outsourcing Finance Breaks Earlier Than You Think. At least by the time you are hiring 1 new employee per month.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. If you outsource your content to some crappy agency that recycles ChatGPT, your content marketing will fail. Back in the day, PLG was called self-service or viral. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. It’s up to you.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO.

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How to Use M&A as a Tool to Accelerate Growth Feat. Insight Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Teddie Wardi’s, Principal at Insight Venture Partners, session at SaaStr Europa talked all things M&A. Teddie Wardi | Principal at Insight Venture Partners. I’m with Insight Venture Partners. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. Grab your tickets! ??. Transcript. Hi everyone.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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.