Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Membership combines cohort-based programs, with a year-round experience to help you learn, execute, and scale your career and your company. Marketing: Marketing Strategy (updated), Growth Marketing (new).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. This is Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on driving business growth through customer relationships. Liam: The whole area is a new space. The LinkedIn Incident.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We found many new ways to stay connected and have some fun, and it was inspiring to see how well morale has held up in light of the circumstances. We acquired SalesRight.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The decision to invest is based on the founding team’s potential and their product’s potential to scale and become a significant market player. The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. In B2B, we will be stuck with AI because there’s no one to work at our companies. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? The only way to win in B2B is to materially increase customer count. Q: What Are You Most Excited About with AI?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. * Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS?

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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. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Vishal Sunak: We are on the scale to eight digits right now, not that far away. So yeah, we’re five years old and scaling to eight digits and beyond now. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. We’re on iTunes.

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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. Casey Winters is a growth and SaaS marketing expert who has transformed how startups grow and scale into large companies. Alexander Theuma. Casey Winters.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This transition dates only a decade back since customer success as a domain has started to gain traction in the B2B industry. In an emerging industry, if your customer success team is a relatively new addition within a business, there is an enormous amount of grafting to be done to prove your team’s worth with the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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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. In my past roles at ACORN, GitLab, whenever I started as a head of growth, one of the data points I will look into is what's the percentage of new users coming back the second day or coming back second month? I do that a lot.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. Best Product Pricing Practices for B2B SaaS.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS). This is not new.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 14, 2017

In other words, Freemium leads to a big influx of new accounts, which leads to performance problems, impacting the whole platform (a great way to anger your loyal paying customers!). It requires some upfront investment but the cost of scaling documentation to thousands (or even millions) of customers is zero ! Technical.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So, let me walk you through that. Then something really interesting happened.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Value to B2B Customers Translates to 1 Thing: Revenue [26:01]. He co-founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution acquired by Wave Systems. If I’m looking for a new dashboard tool or a new financial tool, I really appreciate when someone is asking me, “Okay, what problem are you trying to solve?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

The panelists offer their insights, which at times conflict with the viewpoints of other panelists, on hiring a cohesive team that can really scale the business. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. Then help you scale it and bring some of that expertise to the table.

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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

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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