Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

And the thing that everyone likes the most about Salesforce was how innovative we were, how we changed on a dime and how we made all these great things happen. And then as I mentioned, in 2005 I took on the software as a service opportunity, which was a very nascent sales team and business for Oracle at the time.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. We got the idea from about 2005, a friend of mine became obsessed with climate change. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. Have I begun developing my own personal business model that will enable me to seek the right kind of funding and use it well? Consistent updates. Growth stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. It’s been a long time.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 107

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if freemium is right for you, you’ll need to constantly innovate, iterate and evolve – and then, hopefully, gain the traction you need to stand out in a crowded market full of other free products. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. No business model is foolproof, of course.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. ” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. ” And then we debated like how across the leadership team to say, “Hey, can we afford this or not?” What’s the base case?”

Scale 182

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 182

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. And it can’t be a rash decision, right?

Sales Recruiting 145

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 145

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. It’s been a long time.

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46