ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

First up, stop measuring your success by vanity metrics , like views and ‘likes’ on your videos, for example. is a much worthier investment for your 2020. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts. And that’s really what caught my attention with this one.

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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? She kicked my butt in every metric you could possibly imagine. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How do you get a distributed workforce unified on the mission, the message, the metrics?

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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

JULY 21, 2020

You should already know your MRR, cash burn, NPS, all your key metrics almost immediately after the month ends. List your top few key metrics (MRR, growth, cash burn, NPS, etc). — Scott Evanson (@scottev) July 21, 2020. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. This is your best hack. So send it out!

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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? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. No one, I think,, is fond of showing up one day and being told that they have a new boss if they haven’t been engaged in that process. What works?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Emilie : The way I see it, the bar is higher because on the … because of education, there has been a metrics war.

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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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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. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. Byron Deeter. Dharmesh Shah.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Baremetrics spoke with co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky to learn more about QuikNode and how they use Baremetrics to understand key financial metrics, translate cancellation data to inform product iteration, and sustain long-term growth. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale.

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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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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

APRIL 16, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. 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. So, we decided to be flexible and through that we actually opened a New York office. Good afternoon.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jonathan : And so the people that you’re looking for, you wanted them to resonate with that idea that you already have this amount of money in revenue as opposed to looking for other metrics that they might be interested in for a start-up? Vlad: So what’s the new reality? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

All link to their source in the online book and are copyright ©1999-2020 Basecamp. The identified slice needs to be small enough to execute in a few days, and if possible, something novel, new to us. When new tasks come up, you know where to put them. Clearly to-do list counting isn’t much of a metric to manage by.

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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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