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. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Audience Member 4: I have two questions for you, about when you had to cancel SaaStr Annual in 2020.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Christopher Doman As co-founder and CTO of Cado Security – a leading platform for cloud-native digital forensics and incident response – Christopher Doman is a seasoned cybersecurity professional making waves in the tech startup space. He also co-founded Ignite Research, building and running an advanced hotel search engine.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. Andy Yates, Staff Engineer 📍Started at Buffer in June 2012 as iOS Engineering Lead 🌎 Location: California, U.S.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Eyal Manor: So I’ve been building SaaS services for over 10 years now in an engineering capacity, and just before we start can we get a sense from the audience, I know it’s kind of hard to see but who here is kind of in a technical hat?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job.

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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. What can you do?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Being an engineer can give you the upper hand as a CEO because you understand the product. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Eric Yuan : However, transitioning from engineer to engineer manager probably, is straightforward.

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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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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo finally took place.

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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. Want to see more content like this?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. About Frontegg.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). I got my masters in Computer Science and I had different roles since I joined tech companies in 2013, in different roles: product, design, engineering.”

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

All are linked back to their source in the online book and are copyright ©1999-2020 Basecamp. My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. My problem has been, it’s a big subject, and the deeper I dug, the bigger it got.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In 2020, that figure dropped by half to 38%. Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. I would also encourage you as a new executive to have a separate executive coach. Who made up the lost ground?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

With Dreamforce and SaaStr Europa and Scale behind us, little tiny Team SaaStr is 100% focused on 2020 SaaStr Annual. It will be in March this year for one year in 2020, before we go back to February for 2021 on. But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! The headline metrics: 15,000+ attendees. 1,000+ VCs.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. Aaron Levie. Byron Deeter.

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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. 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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. What works?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. I was more of an engineer, MBA.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. He talked about how he’s selling a product in the engineering space or to engineering as a buyer. New category. So he’s the CTO?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? 300: When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And that got me started thinking about this concept of search engines and that’s where it all came from. In a crowded category , it can be tough to make an SEO impact. Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. Not at the scale of what we’re experiencing this year in 2020. What measurements should be used to determine their success? How should the success of marketing be measured?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell. And hindsight is 2020.

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