Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

These are the strategies I’ve observed: All vertical software companies develop uniquely focused products. In 2012, CoStar acquired its key competitor Loopnet to consolidate these data network effects further. Not bad for a business founded in 1987. By aggregating the most data, CoStar became the industry standard.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 3, 2020

Pluralsight is the technology skills platform that helps companies skill up their teams and increase their engineering impact. The Pluralsight team will help users build up those tech skills with expert knowledge-based courses, skill assessments, and paths. Kick off your skill development. They're calling this one: #FreeApril.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2019

In September of 2012, I drove eighteen hours straight through the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona with everything I owned. It would have gone a long way for me to say, “I know I had a bad April, but I was an All-Star last year. However, what if they wanted you to help mentor some of the new hires on the team?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing. The turbulence of the dot-com era engendered a more conservative startup development philosophy: the Lean Startup.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. Any thoughts? Aaron : No.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * You should be. Harry Stebbings: Okay.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

And while we considered illustrations, our design team ultimately decided to go in a different direction. As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends? You almost always need to scope out a big chunk of your marketing team’s time, budget, and brainpower.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. What experience do they have leading teams to the finish line?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Sam : We funded all three of these companies in our Winter 2012 batch. 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?

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. But, retention can always be better. “If

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Before Slack, Rachel spent four years at LinkedIn, where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And so that’s when I went to Slack to start their growth marketing team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That wasn’t obvious in 2012. If one resume says software engineer and the other says developer, AI can converge these skills so people don’t slip through the cracks because they typed a title incorrectly. Leveraging Your Team When You’re Away As a CEO of a company with $200M in revenue, you have to leverage your team.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

And the end of 2012, or beginning of 2013, we actually met, and decided to start one called Pagar.me Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team. Henrique: So, one, you need a team.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. In 2012, no one took Amazon seriously, really. I say most recently, but quite a few years ago, now.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. He ran global sales and service for Bullhorn, which was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2012. The first is Showpad. Nick Worswick : Yes.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It was an important realization because the great weakness of typical enterprise software is that it’s overcomplicated. Using APIs, smaller software companies or indie developers around the world were able to extend Atlassian products with pluggable components to solve different use cases. Distributing Midori apps where users live.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The good thing is … this is the good news, bad news. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Currently growing 100% year over year, working with companies to un-silo their operations and create one strategic revenue ops team to support their Go To Market strategy. Why does Jason believe that we have to remove handoffs between go to market teams? How should North Star’s be segregated between GTM teams and biz ops teams?

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In a practical sense, your sales process serves as a model by which any member of your sales team can replicate success in finding prospects, solving customer problems, closing deals, performing upsells, and bolstering client loyalty. . This enables your team to allocate limited resources on qualified, high-value leads.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. Ryan Smith: No. That’s it.

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