Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The company grew their total spend from $390k/mo to $750k/mo during 2018. What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. If spending $20,000 meant 200 new customers, spending $25,000 would result in 250.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Chart Mogul

MARCH 5, 2019

“Segmentation gets people to make decisions” Travis Logan, CTO & Co-Founder, Justuno. For example, what information are you currently capturing when a new visitor arrives at your site? With this information, you could automatically build segments within your new visitor audience. right in your welcome pop-up?

Merchant Services 73

Merchant Services Scale New CTO CTO 73

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

BetterCloud

JANUARY 21, 2021

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. But check out Statista’s latest data on email users around the world : According to Statista’s latest data, approximately 281 billion emails were sent in 2018. Those are staggering numbers.

New CTO 52

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. That’s when he realized they would need to find a new way to grow. What is Buffer.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Dug Song founded Duo Security in 2019 and grew the company as CEO until it’s acquisition in October of 2018. Tom was CEO of Adaptive Insights which was acquired by Workday in June of 2018 for $1.5B.

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach New CTO CTO Web Development 28

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.

Marketing 98

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

State Of DevOps Report 2018 Communication is the key to solving most business challenges. 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. The same goes for IT challenges.

DevOps as a Service 75

DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined. Solving the puzzle.

Technical Review 274

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

State Of DevOps Report 2018 Communication is the key to solving most business challenges. 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. The same goes for IT challenges.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

The new server will be open to those with paid Medium accounts. Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame.

Social Media 75

Social Media Mobile Management Business 75

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. That’s when he realized they would need to find a new way to grow. What is Buffer.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Yep, we did that.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

So Gartner says 2018, the SaaS market is over $73 billion dollar, it’s growing very, very quickly. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Who are the new developers? Eyal Manor: So we have a lot to talk about. what are your thoughts?

Cloud 168

Cloud Scale Trends Artificial Intelligence 168

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. So, as leaders, you have to start from scratch and hire new people who weren’t trained in horrible ways or hire people who have been around long enough to know that sales are hard and deals can take six months to close. But it wasn’t ok in 2018, and it isn’t ok today.

CTO Hire 173

CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale 173

SaaStr

JULY 21, 2020

Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. Note: an update of a classic SaaStr post from 2018. All-hands meetings, board meetings, whenever. Yes, you are the CEO. Like growing faster.

Sales Recruiting 327

Sales Recruiting New CTO Scale CTO 327

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

Leadership 141

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Trusted by top blockchain projects, QuikNode has launched over 3,000 nodes and has been helping advance the blockchain ecosystem since 2018. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. Table of Contents.

Blockchain 90

Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. That was the question posed to Rachel Hepworth.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I hope that by the end you have some new ways of thinking about what tools you use yourself, and some of the pitfalls that you might not be aware of. It highlighted all kinds of tools and techniques that would be useful in building a new type of self-sufficient lifestyle. — Robert Stephens (@rstephens) August 9, 2018.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO CTO Hire Technology 223

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women. Maja : “Some women really have it tough.

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Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. Here’s what the new best-of-breed world looks like. But it’s creating a fragmented workplace and new friction.

New CTO 53

New CTO CTO Investment SaaS 53

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. This is not new. They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Engineering Payment Solutions 77

OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring CTO Hire Venture Capital Technical Advisors 59

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

Technical Advisors 155

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 155

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

Payment Features 106

Payment Features Subscription Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time. jason Lemkin : I think 50 is the new, the new number for me. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”

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