Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

April Dunford's definition: " In order to break through the noise, companies would need to take into account their own strengths and weaknesses, then contrast them with their competitors to create a unique leadership position in the minds of customers. Positioning focuses on the perceptions of the prospect not on the reality of the brand.

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Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

“The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He is well-known in the B2B SaaS space for his product. Alexander Theuma is the founder of SaaStock – a one-stop source for B2B SaaS companies to supercharge their growth. Dev is also a prominent speaker who helps B2B SaaS companies scale their business through demand generation strategies and solutions. Alexander Theuma.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2020

The transcript for this episode is below: Therese Tucker: I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow. It’s an area that doesn’t get enough focus. Turned out it became who I am.

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Startup CTO Hire Scale CTO Coach 156

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 255

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. His name is Nate Walkingshaw and he has a book out on product leadership that was recently published, which is an incredible book. We do thousands of customer interviews every year, both with the individual and with the B2B buyers that buy our product.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. We are a Boston B2B marketing software company, we are super excited and passionate about this, but we cannot outspend Facebook or Google.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. David: And so you’ve done it differently this time around? You’ve got to think about taxes.

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143