Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

In my guest post on CustomerThink I talked about the benefits of community building and how it helps SaaS companies get a few steps ahead of their competition. To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community? . Final thoughts.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. What is Buffer.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. I run that company for 4 years (bootstrapped) and got acquired in 2019. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Caught your interest? The LinkedIn Incident.

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 212

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

10 companies show you their positioning strategy How Superhuman achieved positioning by creating an engine Upscope's SaaS positioning lesson? aprildunford - I think you’ll appreciate this video [link] — Brian Corcoran (@brianc13) November 17, 2019. Cobloom were good at marketing SaaS companies and that's what worked.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. What is Buffer.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Outsourcing Services Payments 52

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

In my guest post on CustomerThink I talked about the benefits of community building and how it helps SaaS companies get a few steps ahead of their competition. To get more practical, I recently interviewed over 10 SaaS companies and asked them 4 questions: Which platform(s) do you use to run your community?

Marketing 40

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 40

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

APRIL 22, 2019

Hear why he thinks that the next call should not have been to a competitor. “Hiring, Firing and Stretching: How to Build Your First Management Teams” ScaleX Founder and Managing Partner Dilek Dayinlarli and Insider Co-Founder and CEO Hande Cilingir and Atlassian Head of OpsGenie Berkay Mollamustafaoglu. His next call?

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CTO Hire Scale Sales Hiring CTO 165

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings.

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Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 224

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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SaaS Payments Engineering Technical Advisors Payment Solutions 77

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karl made his way into the world of SaaS with the founding of Lucidchart having been Head of Business Development for Google in China and Head of Patents. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does Karl structure the hiring process today? What works?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

We’re doing it SaaStr Europa bigger and better in June 2019. And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. Grab your tickets! ??. Transcript.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 111

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

So as we kind of got our feet on the ground in that space and evolved and scaled that business, over time what happened was the market started to shift. So in 2019, we saw in ad tech in general a lot of companies moving toward bringing capabilities in house. So the way that we had to work with our customers had to change.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 114

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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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. Transcript: Harry Stebbings : All right, Ross.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bob made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Crossbeam. * What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? * Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? This podcast is an excerpt from Eric’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 148

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) They just built the first SaaS product. Let’s go hire somebody. Okay, now you got to go figure out how to hire and who to hire. I’ll hire the person. I’m not a founder. I need more bandwidth.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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