SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. Business Development Identify and assess partnership opportunities to drive growth Business Intelligence Turn data into insights to inform decision-making.

Scale 178

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 178

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. How AWS Does It. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Software startups are rising to meet the need. Data contracts encode the data interchange between two different departments (Gable). The same thing is happening in data.

Artificial Intelligence 172

Artificial Intelligence Trends Data Software Review 172

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks. They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” If you have enterprises and startups, they’ll likely want a completely different sales motion. This is important.

Scale 202

Scale Scaling AWS Sales Hiring 202

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

At Mapistry, moving upmarket is exactly what CEO, Allie Janoch, set out to do two years ago and in this talk, she and Lauren Alexander, Mapistry’s VP of Marketing and Demand Generation, will share the playbook they have developed for generating warm leads in a market of buyers unused to purchasing software.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 155

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, but at least once per year.

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Pricing Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 114

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. What did they say?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. What did they say?

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Your developers are busy. MRR, obviously.

SaaS Payments 238

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 238

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia.

Scale 124

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 124

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 108

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

After all, as a startup founder, you want to have a solid idea of what your true gross margins are and what it actually costs to acquire a customer! Most startups I’ve seen often get at least some of this wrong, particularly if they are doing around $100k in MRR or less. that will fit the use case of most small to medium SaaS startups.

Startup 81

Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Did a lot of consulting for high tech startups, I really love the startup space. Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. Is there a customer success playbook that I have to develop? So, I think that’s great.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 196

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . In most cases, unique contracts aren’t needed for marketplace purchases.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale B2B 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

I encourage startups to treat it like a new product/company and test that market with an open mind. Seth Hammac , Global Partnerships & Alliances @ AWS Ok so what CAN you do to set yourself up for success? More for your eyeballs : Cool to see Capchase featured in Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2023.

Scale 70

Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise 70

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. Another piece of very, very good startup advice that I’ve given myself a hundred times is the “Do one thing exceptionally well.” This is what we did.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 226

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

They also have partnerships with other companies like Cloudflare, AWS, and Let’s Encrypt. Some of the notable features of WP Engine include: 55,000 WordPress plugins Automated SSL certificates Single sign-on authentication Development and staging environments Evercache Testing and debugging tools SSH Gateway.

Management 137

Management Technical Review Outsourced Development Engineering 137

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. If you don’t know what Rails is, it’s the development framework for Ruby. They were a small company. They came over and they met us.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 138

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Google Play — added a new one-click import functionality (vs previous integration that required development work). Linked subscriptions — introduced linked subscriptions i.e. changes to a single customer’s subscriptions in quick succession are classified as expansion or contraction activity, instead of a churn and reactivation.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. We went through an accelerator and almost got our startup MBA.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 76

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere. How are they doing this?

Generative AI 246

Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 246

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” It’s a startup, it’s normal for people to leave that often. And I just don’t believe you can outsource it. ” Because businesses are what sustain.

Sales Hiring 173

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 173

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

276: Liat Bycel is VP of Customer Engagement @ Airtable, the startup that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power to organise anything. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Liat made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be VP of Customer Engagement at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups in Airtable.

Sales Hiring 110

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 110

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. We know about Zoom and we know about Slack and we even know about AWS, but look at these other categories. Mobile apps and app development.

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 189