Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. For example, if you know your advertising spend is $20,000 a month and it results in 200 new customers, your CAC is $100. Let’s start with Payroll – Support.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. 3 Addy Osmani. Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K followers on Twitter and 5.2K

Development 130

Development Technical Advisors Web Development Web Developers 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. In terms of books, I love books in two categories, for me.

Scale 71

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 71

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. Now, go read a Seth Godin book. I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.” – Elon Musk, CEO & CTO of SpaceX, Investor in PayPal. I love this.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Payment Services 147

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] It was terrible at writing all of the book.

AI 97

AI Azure New CTO Software Development 97

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

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 we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together.

B2B 134

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 134

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

Sales Hiring 90

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 90

Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Regulatory agencies frequently update guidelines and introduce new requirements to address emerging risks and changing industry dynamics. New technologies such as electronic health records, telemedicine, and wearable devices offer significant benefits but also introduce complex compliance requirements. Book a free consult today.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare compliance CTO Hire New CTO 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. . The risk in failing to comply with one state’s sales tax laws is that you could be subject to an intense audit where the state’s auditor scours your books for every instance of uncollected sales tax. .

Merchant Services 178

Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 178

Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

What Eric is Known For: His book, Leveling Up, gives readers advice for living the life they’ve always dreamed of leading. Why Rand is Successful: Rand speaks frankly and with humor, as shown in his book Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Guide to the Startup World. How can I find new marketing Instagram accounts to follow?

Marketing 128

Marketing CTO Coach Entrepreneurship AI Search 128

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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 237

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 237

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Adam: You’ve also managed to write two books. Laura: I’m glad you asked, because my CTO currently lives in Hawaii.

VP of Engineering 190

VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach New CTO 190

OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

What’s the last book you read? I have a pile of quarter-read books by my bed. We did a song to launch our new mission, vision and values at SurveyMonkey, and I also rewrote “Shallow” for our CFO who left last year, then performed it with our President, CTO and General Counsel. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz.

CTO Hire 55

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Underperforming Technical Team 55

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? ” Or, “Every lamb chop came from New Zealand?”

VP of Engineering 137

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 137

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?

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143

Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

He has been active in pioneering this SaaS revolution for years, with multiple books, lectures, ventures, podcasts, and more. Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

Social Media 52

Social Media CTO Coach Technical Review New CTO 52

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Below we'll cover what positioning in marketing is, why you should RTFM of April Dunford's book and give you 10 positioning examples and a couple of links to templates. Skip this blog post and just read the book You know those books which could be shortened down to 1 page of bullet points? This is not one of them.

Strategy 128

Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

OpenView Labs

JUNE 18, 2020

Is there a new skill you’ve been working on during quarantine? He drove a forklift in New Jersey long enough for him to have enough money to build his own studio. He created something totally new that wasn’t just a band, or an album, or a set of albums, but was an entire sound, a new way of making music.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Software Engineering 52

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. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

CTO Coach 128

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 128

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO. That’s it.”

Sales Hiring 258

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 258

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. But when he arrived, his boss was nowhere to be found. If he didn’t fix it, he’d be fired. Fix it he did. Tim: There’s always a fear of change.

Artificial Intelligence 169

Artificial Intelligence Scale CTO Hire AI 169

Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005.

AI Search 52

AI Search AI ChatGPT Technology 52

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 75

DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. The number of products that are in sales reps’ books, the partners that are in the ecosystem, there’s no denying that. How should the success of marketing be measured?

Scale 181

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 181

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? The book they have gifted most often and why? One of them, I was the first CTO of Stubhub.

Underperforming Technical Team 127

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 127

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. Since Szabo’s website launched in 2015, more than 90,000 people have visited hotels through bookings made on the ResortPass platform. I had a couple — the first one was a booking website.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing CTO Hire New CTO CTO 40

Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Below are the top four key quality assurance areas that every CIO & CTO (and equivalents) are concentrating on over the short to medium term: 1. t" moments the day after a new patch or version is applied throughout your system. You should not accept testing programs that test only the convenient things and result in "oh s!#t"

New CTO 40

New CTO CTO Software Investment 40

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. And with referrals, you’ll take away prizes, like a Canoo hoodie or a design book. Not a lot, I’d say.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. For those who don’t know that book, please read it. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 141

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

I immediately left the office, went home, packed a bag, went the airport, booked flights, showed up there at mid night, met with the individual. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

CTO Hire 161

CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 161

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Rand Fishkin of Moz poured his heart and frustrations into his book Lost and Founder , then began building SparkToro taking a drastically different approach than he did in building Moz. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.”

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

Payment Methods 211

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 211

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” And this is a great book from Marc’s book, Beyond The Cloud. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.

Sales Recruiting 177

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 177

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.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

Scale 180

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 180