SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She is active on LinkedIn, where she helps SaaS companies optimize their customer acquisition, demand generation, product positioning , and growth plans. He is known for his knowledge and expertise in SEO, SaaS demand, and paid customer acquisition. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. You need to invest at least a year or even two years. You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. The pricing for SaaS is much more complicated. That will never work.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

They’ve invested in all of these other businesses. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. So number six, thinking you’re getting away with under investing in management, up scaling in HR. We all under invest.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Quick recap: Keep your pricing simple. And then, invest your energy and time into the product. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. You know, earlier today we talked about creating a new category. Have your user conference around $10M ARR or earlier.

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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. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So I worked for Jason Lemkin for about six years, half of which was EchoSign and the other half of which was Adobe post acquisition. 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?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. This was in 1997, and I spent two years. He and I went to MIT together.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. This is empowering and allows me to execute at a dramatically fast pace than I otherwise could.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. Be like, "And we got it at a fantastic price." So this is Dharmesh.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. Be like, "And we got it at a fantastic price." So this is Dharmesh.

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