Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. It truly has been a team effort.

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Our team at Neil Patel Digital vetted hundreds of email marketing companies based on their brand reputation, client portfolio, ratings, and their areas of expertise. Bad content! For in-house teams looking for rapid email marketing turn around, InboxArmy comes highly recommended. Thought Leadership. How do I know this?

Software Review 102

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Outsourced Development 102

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

VP of Engineering 260

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 260

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. One example I’ll give, one of the best companies out there on this metric was Shopify, which is a company that in around 2011 had about 12 million of ARR.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How can leaders both be authoritative and vulnerable simultaneously?

Underperforming Technical Team 122

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 122

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Interviewing Technical Review 167

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Companies must shift from a focus on competition to a focus on innovation. The core of the blue ocean strategy is value innovation. Continued innovation maintains the Blue Ocean advantage.

Strategy 65

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 65