SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2021

. — Daniel Peter (@danieljpeter) December 2, 2020. They know how to take an established brand and grow it faster, and build or expand a new core offering around it. Salesforce may not be great at creating brand new things anymore. Bret Taylor is President and COO of Salesforce — and Facebook’s ex-CTO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Harry Stebbings: Welcome to the very first SaaStr podcast of 2020. 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley. Yep, we did that.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Product Officer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Audience Member 4: I have two questions for you, about when you had to cancel SaaStr Annual in 2020. And in January of 2020, the CDC put out an email that said COVID might be an issue for travel.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

500k+ deals make up half their revenue, and $1m deals 37%. $500k+ deals made up 41% of Braze’s revenue in 2021 and 2020, and $1m+ deals grew to 37% of their revenue, up from 25%. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. I love to see a CTO become CEO, and founders pass the baton to each other when it works.

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Unbounce

MAY 19, 2020

You’ll also want to create the resource itself, whether that’s a blog post, web page, or landing page. If your product offers an immediate solution to the challenges of the new normal, you may also want to place that message front and center on your website. April 22, 2020: The message about replacing email is gone.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 4, 2022

How Usage-Based Pricing Fueled Two 2020 IPOs” led one from Insight Partners. It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. At Unbounce, we not only believe that applied AI is the future of marketing , we also think marketers tuned in to what’s happening now stand to benefit in a big way in 2020 and beyond.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

So they dropped a blog post all about the common problems that marketers face when focused too much on brand affinity. But once they dug deeper into the data, they found out that their campaign generated the same amount of web traffic as a reasonably successful blog post, converted minimal leads, and generated barely any business.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. And that’s new ACV.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2020

— Scott Evanson (@scottev) July 21, 2020. Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. Save that for board meetings, quarterly updates, etc. I know, board meetings again.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. He is number 88 on The Midas List: Top Tech Investors 2020. He also featured in The New York Times and CB Insights. Brad Feld.

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. This can be seen in the growing popularity email (newsletters are hot in 2020). How I made it to $1,000 MRR Here are the tactics I used to grow Friendly from a brand new startup to a company that makes over $1,000 in MRR.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Read more about QuikNode Definitely take a look at QuikNode's blog.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. You can read blog posts, tweets about why you shouldn’t try to create a company outside the Bay area. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Yeah, I’ve blogged about this one a few times, so. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category. So he’s the CTO? Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. Take advantage of your VCs connections. Welcome Eric.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Even outside of the agency that I started in, just like keeping a broad network and talking to people about how they do things, what they learned and sharing your lessons as well which was one of the reasons for why I started my own blog, the newsletter, that was always very, very big for me. And then I also touched on the newsletter itself.

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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. 36 RevOps Leaders You Need to Follow.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin. Want to see more content like this session? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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