BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. Here are three approaches: Agile and Sprints : Time is a first-order principle. The inputs to learning are speeding up fast.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Just how much damage is involuntary churn causing?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Average salary: $196,172/yr. Average salary: $100,340/yr.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: Would love to talk about finding those initial customers who you tested with.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. In a nutshell, look at how much revenue you want to earn from each customer and the methods you want to use to attract your customer to build a better pricing strategy. Find out here. SaaS Pricing Basics.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. . Click To Tweet.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe). They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Unlimited expense tracking and reporting from Gmail, Outlook, mobile app, Slack, phone gallery, mileage, and Per Diem. Personal card management. Personal card management.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A big part of the subscription billing iceberg effect relates to all the nuances you don’t think you’ll need, but find out are necessary to scale. The process to change price points can’t happen in real-time. Unnecessary revenue leakage occurs through failed and delinquent payments. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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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. When that person goes to their colleagues and says, “ I want to buy this ,” and they say, “ Buy from who? Enlist the co-founders (06:34). ?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M of the $3.5M

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. Tweet this quote.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. Chances are, that plan will fall short on actually retaining and recruiting top talent.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” ” But being out here in California at the time I saw what Cisco was doing, what Dell was doing. Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. You’re dot com.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25)

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Guest Speaker (Cassie Young): LinkedIn Primary VC Host (Scott Barker): LinkedIn Newsletter Find GTMnow (GTMfund’s Media Brand): Website LinkedIn Twitter/X YouTube Podcast Sponsor: Pursuit The best talent isn’t actively job hunting. Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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