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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

⏰ Time at Buffer: 13 years, 2 months Joel started Buffer in 2010 and has led the company through plenty of milestones (he wrote an in-depth article about it for Buffer’s 10th anniversary ). ⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. ” 12.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Successful SaaS companies such as Hubspot & Canva have used this strategy to scale their user growth exponentially. The best part? Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Let’s hire an amazing VP of product who’s going to answer this question for us and kind of have the frameworks to do it.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? And in this article he explains why, and proposes a different approach to thinking about the optimal CSM headcount to help you build a more effective customer success organization. The question is not whether a CSM is a valuable asset to a SaaS business, but rather, how valuable are they? Weekend Wisdom.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Your online community may become your first destination for interviewing company representatives, turning those answers into articles, and improving your organic rankings. #2 For example, we ask people an array of questions on ‘restaurant marketing’ and then use the answers and data to write data-driven articles.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Simmone talks about her experience building Gilt City and Kidpass as a woman of color and how she advises companies to build diversity and inclusion into their hiring practices and sales teams. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It really starts in how you’re hiring. Unconscious bias is a part of all of us.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

Working in-house for startups is often ‘a one man job’ as you do everything: from general comms strategy to media placements and everything in between (social media, product descriptions, attending / organising events, etc.). It takes time to kick in, and it is fragile. One negative article can have deep repercussions.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. In this article, we'll recap what these common pitfalls look like to give you a better sense of how to successfully approach culture within your organization. The hard answer is no.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

In this article I’m going to show you: why you should conduct customer interviews; when the best time to conduct customer interviews is; how to do it the right way. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

In this article I’m going to show you: why you should conduct customer interviews; when the best time to conduct customer interviews is; how to do it the right way. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

Why do some experts consider QBRs to be a waste of time? These are the primal questions you will find answers to in this article. You can customize your approach and strategy with customers. Initially, the customer’s goal could be managing a particular problem that might have changed over time. What are QBRs? What is QBR?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We know, by persona, by ICP, how people respond to what, for a long period of time, and how we can, more specifically, get meetings with these individuals,” because that was the name of the game. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. I see this online all the time. ” Seriously?

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