Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the significant role of data analytics in driving e-commerce business growth and discuss effective strategies for leveraging this invaluable resource. Understanding Customer Behavior Data analytics enables e-commerce businesses to gain deep insights into customer behavior and preferences.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

This blog will explore the challenges faced by healthcare companies in achieving regulatory compliance. Understanding regulatory requirements, conducting assessments, developing strategies, and staying informed about changes in compliance standards can all help healthcare organizations effectively navigate regulatory compliance.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 8, 2021

I was able to hire a strong team, and we got to work, 100xing the size of our customer base over four years. As part of this process, a lot of what I tried to do was reduce distractions for the team. As the team grew over time both in size and in scope, I started to see cracks in this strategy I didn’t immediately understand.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

You have to be careful to pair that with someone strong to manage the relationship, that has more time and that also can be trusted. As a founder, you’ll just run out of time to properly manage key customers and partners yourself. Hire that person, and make sure they are someone the top customers can really trust and count on.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

The concept was the foundation for his popular talk and ultimately his classic, long-form blog post. That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. This was a team value that became to talk, when led to a blog post and ultimately this conversation.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To stay on top of the fast paced, evolving digital world, issues like hiring and managing a diverse and highly skilled SaaS workforce, as well as security and privacy concerns impacting everything from customer contracts to product strategies and new market development, HR and security management is being elevated into in the C-Suite.

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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. If your tool is considered as a commodity (meaning, that it’s an essential part of daily life – like tap water), you have to target 100% uptime. The best part? CV templates by Canva.

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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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

But after years of research and thinking about this problem at typeform.com and Notion , David decided to write a blog post explaining why this question is so hard to answer. How many CSMs should you hire? Along with: What’s the ROI of your customer success manager? A solid question we know is certainly difficult to answer.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. 5 Sebastian Schaeffer, CTO at dofollow.io (B2B PR SaaS) says: “ Our community is primarily on Facebook and Linkedin and it has been live for over a year. We use the community from time to time to promote our services.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

So they dropped a blog post all about the common problems that marketers face when focused too much on brand affinity. But once they dug deeper into the data, they found out that their campaign generated the same amount of web traffic as a reasonably successful blog post, converted minimal leads, and generated barely any business.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From speaking with a variety of CFOs and VPs of Finance recently, here’s what we are hearing they are looking for in their FP&A hiring, outside of traditional Finance, math, accounting and reporting skills. Finance skill sets. Skills & Experience. Stronger technical skills – SQL, Python, and statistical analysis.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the different dimensions of cybersecurity for insurance companies. The Role of Fractional CTO in Enhancing Cybersecurity A Fractional CTO can provide invaluable expertise and guidance in strengthening an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Iconic PLG companies share how they integrated GTM into their growth strategy to go from single digits to over a billion in ARR. Strategy: To get started, identify playbooks that yield the highest revenue. The next hiring focus should be growth marketing. What do some of the most successful PLG companies have in common?

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Do I have a plan or strategy if I get rid of my VP of Sales?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Balancing internal growth with hiring.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Related : 10 Companies Show you their Go-to-Market Strategies Also see : 3 Copywriting Secrets for Ranking on Google And : Using Jobs to be Done Method to Explain What Your Company Does Contents Skip this blog post and just read the book Why positioning matters What is positioning? This is not one of them. Product positioning matters!

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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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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. When these goals are known, it is much easier to chalk out an action strategy. These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Megan Leuders: And when you were talking to CEOs and CTOs today, what do you believe is the biggest technology challenge that they are facing as a SaaS company? What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. Many others have adopted his strategies at Box to create scalable products. His strategies and tips in SaaS have helped many users.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. And the response was overwhelming. The question was not, “should we do this?”

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. Here are some recent trends and developments in the cloud computing space: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption: Many organizations are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. Why You Need to Review Your Pricing Strategy Today (and How to do it Right). Patrick Campbell of Price Intelligently lays out the case for why a focus on pricing strategy is vital to almost every company’s bottom line.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We also announced a contest on this episode, so give it a or read our blog. We also announced a contest on this episode, so give it a or read our blog. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. I see this online all the time. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

While most of us assume M&A happens late stage, Teddie gives a list of reasons why you should use M&A in your growth strategy. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. That’s like an extremely important thing because you don’t want to be a dual brain company for a real long time.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

In more everyday terms, it’s a platform that allows you to build your website (and its content, such as pages and blog posts) with a backend interface that doesn’t require writing the code from scratch. Do we have the technical support, in-house or contracted, to take on the learning curve of an emerging platform?

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In this framework, you’ll learn how to design a scoring system that aligns to your growth strategy, brainstorm and select leader indicators of success, and operationalize the system across your startup. In HubSpot’s case, we eventually hired a world-class data science team, but our scoring only improved by a few points,” notes Redbord.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And the wave we’re riding at G2, the wave we’re all riding here at Saster is this fourth industrial revolution which really means everything in business is being automated and companies rather than hiring people they are now automating everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “. At a high level we have a cascading set of structures that we use to define what we want to achieve at a company level (mission, vision, strategy, programs).

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Pricing and packaging strategies. As Director of RevOps, he scaled his team at Sendoso by hiring smart generalists to lead their own teams of MOps, SOps, CSOps. Channing Ferrer , VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at HubSpot. Jaakko frequently writes for sites like Sales hacker, SalesTech Star and other blogs.

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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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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. How to create a PR strategy and set a budget for it?

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