Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 16, 2024

There was a large portion of the market that simply didn’t have the balance sheet (or technical know how) to operate one. When Redshift / Snowflake came out, a massive amount of latent demand was unlocked (both on cost and technical expertise vectors). Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

Outsourcing Services 274

Outsourcing Services Cloud Software Outsourced Development 274

Kellblog

MARCH 15, 2020

When I sign up to advise a company, I’ll often do a post to let readers know and discuss the reasons why I like the company. This post is about Cyral , a cloud data security company I’m advising that I’ve been talking with for over a year. When talent meets opportunity, great things can happen. # # #.

Technical Advisors 67

Technical Advisors Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Entrepreneurship 67

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 if you got your first VP of Sales wrong and you want to pull the rip cord after three months, and that’s certainly something that I’ve advised. That’s something that Jason advises. Yeah, go ahead.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 226

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He advises that when these warning signs appear, founders should make a change sooner rather than later to avoid further issues. The company will likely need 1 Sales Engineer for every 8-10 sales reps to support the technical side. • Waiting will only make the problems worse.”

Sales Hiring 277

Sales Hiring Technical Advisors Compensation Outsourced Development 277

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

I’ve got my Excel sheet to help me explain to investors, advisers and friends how well revenue will increase. I’ve advised many first time executives in the past 20 years. If they get too technical, ask them to explain it again in non-accountant speak. I know, roughly, how much money is in our account.

Finance 328

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 328

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

A few months ago I signed up to be an advisor to Kelda , and I thought I’d do a quick post to talk about the company and why I decided to sign up. For more technical information on Kelda, here’s a link where you can download their white paper. What is Kelda? Why does this matter?

Technical Advisors 54

Technical Advisors Cloud Technology Development 54

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I had been an advisor for Eventbrite for about two years, so I had a lot of comfort with the CEO and many of the executives before ever starting the role. When I started advising Eventbrite, the company had a business unit structure, so it didn’t even have a CPO role, but product leaders embedded into different business units.

Technical Advisors 140

Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Is it the interface? Integrations?

Payment Services 146

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 146

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. The best-performing startups led by technical or product founders also have investors or advisors who guide them through the early days (and often later years) of their journey. Which are you?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 124

Kellblog

MAY 23, 2022

If nothing else, the rants on repeatability and technical debt will be worth the price of admission!). Accumulating debilitating technical debt. “I wear the chain I forged in life,” said Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol and so it is with your product. This material will echo that content.

Scale 96

Scale Technical Advisors Scaling Startup 96

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Lauri told us that he “would advise every company out there to see whether you can start selling as soon as possible, even just a fragment of what you’re trying to build if that already creates value. Messente built a platform that did the job better than anything available at the time, and soon it was generating revenue within Estonia.

SaaS Payments 147

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 147

Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But the outcomes are clear if the reasons are not: you’re omitted from meetings, passed over for promotions, underperform in nine-box reviews, find advisors suddenly too busy to work with your company [1], and VCs surprisingly passing on your financing round [2]. There are few symptoms, other than the odd cringe that may go unnoticed.

Technical Advisors 95

Technical Advisors Technical Review Social Media Outsourced Development 95

Scytale

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This is the more robust and ‘official’ audit, usually reporting over a period of time (a three-to-twelve-month period, as advised by the AICPA). Step Three: Get Technical Sure, policies, SOPs, and scope design are essential, but they only get you to a certain point. Step Four: Readiness Assessment System check?

compliance 111

compliance Technical Advisors Data SaaS 111

Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Founder of Bulldog Mindset, Technical Adviser at Health Hero 43.4K Wes Bos is the creator of a prominent online course that teaches non-technical people about CSS and JavaScript coding. 1 John Sonmez. followers on Twitter and 17.2K followers on LinkedIn. Founder of BosType, Lead Instructor at HackerYou 267.9K 3 Addy Osmani.

Development 130

Development Technical Advisors Web Development Web Developers 130

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

You’re advising more than 50 companies right now. There’s a handful of companies I advise where it’s transactional: it’s order taking. A lot of the companies I advise are selling to mid-market and above, and that’s where my value is. A lot of my advising is actually around hiring.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

” Let me start by saying I have a 270+ degree view on this problem: I advise and sit on boards (so a well meaning advice giver), I’ve been the CEO of two startups, and I’ve also been one of those (presumably skilled-in-lying) C-level execs. I suppose the real moral here is to have deep conversations with your advisors.

Technical Advisors 107

Technical Advisors Technical Support Management Innovation 107

ChurnZero

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you work in Customer Success, then you’ve likely experienced the challenges of customers reaching out to you for their support-related needs – whether it’s technical troubleshooting or resetting a password. For urgent technical issues, they should contact Support. Be Upfront With Your Customer.

Customer Support 98

Customer Support Technical Advisors Customer Success Technical Review 98

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. The most egregious is to take truly one time revenue, “annualize” it, and call it “ARR.” It’s probably better described as re-occurring vs recurring.

AI 190

AI Cloud Revenue Technical Advisors 190

Neil Patel

JANUARY 12, 2021

That said, we would also advise you to avoid shared hosting or overly cheap services. You’ll need quick and efficient backup support when technical difficulties arise. I’ll also advise you to avoid going for domain names that have hyphens (like neil-patel-marketing.com) even when you get it at a dirt-cheap price.

Technical Advisors 142

Technical Advisors Software Review Technical Review Systems Review 142

Neil Patel

JANUARY 22, 2023

Is SEO pagination on your technical SEO site audit checklist ? Finally, Semrush advises adding two or three internal links to every new article you publish. #6 If you can see the benefits of optimizing pagination for SEO but if you’re struggling to implement it, why not work with a technical SEO agency ?

Technical Advisors 144

Technical Advisors Social Media User Experience Engineering 144

Kellblog

AUGUST 4, 2024

The three of us work as EIRs at Balderton, where our role is to advise portfolio companies on operational matters. That is, you may not need to file any patents right now, but you do need to understand patents and devise your company’s strategy for them.

Technical Advisors 88

Technical Advisors Startup Strategy Technology 88

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

" She advises marketers to "get to the point" and notes that "people don't need to be wined and dined via content, just give them what they came for. Once people are in your content, give them something different." 

B2B 137

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 137

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Of course, it’s more technical than that, but the simple truth is this: If you own a website, you need an SSL certificate. Bluehost uses Let’s Encrypt as the certificate authority, but almost all the technical legwork is off your plate. Cons: Some technical skill required for setup Recommended certificate renewal every 60 days.

Technical Advisors 133

Technical Advisors Management Pricing Customer Support 133

Net-Results

JUNE 5, 2019

If you don’t understand why you’re implementing something, you can’t properly advise your customer (whether that’s internally or externally) on the right way to do it. Most platforms (including Pardot, Act-On or Net-Results ) don’t require much more technical background to be successful with. appeared first on Net-Results.

Technical Advisors 75

Technical Advisors Marketing Software Strategy 75

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In some cases, it may indeed be a result of your customer denying charges or merely a technical error. The best thing to do is to advise your customer to call their bank. . R0 or R1 means that your customer has contacted their financial institution to request an end to their scheduled payments with your business. . .

Software Review 148

Software Review Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services 148

User Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Technical Review Data Analysis Software Review 98

Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

Technical Advisors 52

Technical Advisors Artificial Intelligence Data 52

InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

Gelata advised, “You need to understand insights and be able to question the assumptions at a strategic level.”. Each practitioner had a different experience with the reporting and communication structure of the revenue operations team.

Scale 109

Scale Revenue Technical Advisors Sales 109

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

On your hand, startups selling to IT operations teams, who are technical, and sophisticated buyers of many different types of technology, and who manage custom environments can go to market with far more sophisticated pricing plans. Other companies offer super complex, highly customizable price plans. Thank you, Kenny!

Technical Advisors 100

Technical Advisors Marketing SaaS Acquisition 100

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock. Brianne Kimmel made the move from marketing through growth to advising and investing. But this time "growth engineer" is unequivocally technical. Month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Engineering Technical Advisors Payment Solutions 77

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As of today it’s a bit complicated for the marketing to be completely autonomous, so we rely a lot on the tech team and we need to find a way to also as a marketing team to be more technical and to have more competencies in ours. And you talked earlier about how it’s becoming more and more technical.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 184

IT World

JULY 7, 2023

“Cyber insurance sends work to a small number of [incident response] firms, drives down the fees paid and appoints lawyers to direct technical investigators,” the report noted.

Technical Advisors 72

Technical Advisors Enterprise Communication 72

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. Like really advise you to read Crossing The Chasm because it’s a paradigm shift. Our target audience is technical. Again, we sell to a technical audience. Stages of growth. Gaetan Gachet : So myself, I joined the company back in 2013.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 141

Stax

MAY 30, 2024

I just love it – dare I say, I might even look forward to doing my Tax Return?!?!!” – Chloe, Software Advice ( Read the rest of this review and more reviews ) Sage One Sage One takes over the small, technical accounting tasks and automates them to save you time.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Advisors 88

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 8, 2020

You may decide that it is best to work with a link building consultant who can advise you on strategy and execute the process for you. Here are some things you will need to get in order: Technical SEO – There is no point generating backlinks and driving traffic if your website takes 10 seconds to load, or is poorly organized.

Consulting 118

Consulting Technical Advisors Payment Methods Technical Review 118

Teamgate

JANUARY 13, 2020

Technical health. Some technical details are there, but the hosting provider will supervise you to set up everything. . Some technical details are there, but the hosting provider will supervise you to set up everything. . Operating directly is not advised because it might invite some inevitable problems. Website content.

Technical Advisors 91

Technical Advisors Technical Review Software Review Engineering 91

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 11, 2021

And then talk, advise, assist. We dig into longer term business objectives and strategies, technical ideas they want to present, and even into their personal life plans/strategy if that’s where they take the conversation. Julie Gurner, Managing Partner and Executive Performance Coach at Gurner LLC. Listen, listen, listen.

Technical Advisors 95

Technical Advisors Leadership Startup Development 95