Unbounce

OCTOBER 1, 2019

After exploding onto the scene in 2013, Zola quickly became the fastest-growing wedding startup in the United States, trouncing old-school competitors with their headache-free approach to big-day planning. By now, you’ve probably heard something about Zola. How Can Ecommerce Marketers Get More Sales Through Targeted Messaging?

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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.

Trends 111

Trends Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 111

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. Interested in sponsoring? Let us know. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. to Close.com.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 104

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. He was also Coordinator and Trainer of startup sales at Gama Academy, the first sales training program for Brazilian startups. He’s been running SaaSholic, a blog where he writes about startups and SaaS.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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. I was amazed by how big Salesforce was in the ecosystem.

Payment Solutions 154

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason Lemkin: So you have like a great profile irrespective of what your startup’s doing. And so combine all that, the stress, markdowns… Blackbird today announced they’re marking down Canva, which is one of the most iconic startups out there. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2014.). This is what we did.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 241

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. And had the opportunity, my first startup experience was at Prosper.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

Technical Review 199

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you’re asking yourself how much time, energy, and finances you should be investing into developing your content, look no further. This blog was born alongside Baremetrics’s launch in 2013. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

Content Marketing 113

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? There was a small startup scene. Rob Gonzalez: And so, a lot of people that were doing computer science in Williamstown were thinking about startups back even in the late nineties.

SaaS Payments 274

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 274

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? David Skok: So I graduated with a computer science degree in the early days of that craft and few months after leaving college, I found a problem and I wrote some code to solve it and accidentally without even thinking what I was doing, I ended up creating a startup.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 164

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 164

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. It’s almost like theory development, to understand how to look at big data. I constantly see software folks, people building startups, struggling to know where to stop. Why does he want it?

Sales Hiring 202

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Prior to Ometria, Pete has been growing SaaS revenue teams for almost 20 years. Outreach triples the productivity of sales teams and empowers them to drive predictable and measurable revenue growth by prioritizing the right activities and scaling customer engagement with intelligent automation. I was working for a hospitality startup.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Since 2013 with their transition to SaaS have grown to more than $50 million in ARR in less than five years, while maintaining profitability. Fred Shilmover is the CEO and co-founder of InsightSquared, one of Boston’s premiere tech startups paving the way in the sales intelligence space. David Skok: Excellent question.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 116

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

For starters, the CS role has earned its rightful spot as one of a startup’s first ten hires. VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

For starters, the CS role has earned its rightful spot as one of a startup’s first ten hires. VC and PE firms now ask founders about the metrics owned by CS teams, specifically NRR and GRR , within the first ten minutes of conversation. You Mon: When I think about being a leader, it’s all about how do I get my team to succeed.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin.

VP of Engineering 74

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2013. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2013.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 . Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great. Thank you, Brian.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

Engineering 27

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M They aren’t alone.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M They aren’t alone.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M They aren’t alone.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

After reading “7 Day Startup” by Dan Norris he came up with a business idea: Unlimited graphic design for a flat monthly fee. However, things weren’t really working, as evidenced by the fact that they did over $3,000,000 in revenue in 2013 but yielded minuscule profits. Virtualized teams for support on implementation.

Subscription 40

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * When is the right time to sell a startup?

VP of Engineering 135

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 135

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2022

We were still the poor people of Europe. I was so bad that when I came back to the office, my boss said, “Don’t listen back to that. ” And I learned that when you confront your worst fear, particularly in an early startup, it will never haunt you again because you’ve confronted it.

Social Media 208

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