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.

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Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 160

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 kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Vlad will highlight what defines success in each stage of the growth journey, and how to create a winning business with the right product, team, and culture. Jonathan: And you describe yourself as a technologist first, or a business person? When the founder is a technologist versus a business leader? Jonathan : Hotel business?

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Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 139

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

KPIs to drive alignment between R&D spend and corporate business goals. . Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Rob brings a wealth of operating, board and investor experience to the discussion. Financial KPIs.

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Outsourcing Services Technical Review CTO Coach Software Review 59

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Passion and dedication of the founder and the business model’s distribution potential are key points for investment models. 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. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. And they were seeing lots of fraud.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 75

Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz. Other chapters focus on risk, including evaluating the risk of entering new markets, of changing corporate culture and attitudes, and of changing CEOs. I read it and I loved the concept.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO CTO Government 150

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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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 138

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Nikos Moraitakis, CEO @ Workable, moderates this insightful session with Dan Adika, CEO at WalkMe; Mallun Yen, Chief Business & Product Officer at RPX Corp; Craig Walker, CEO at Dialpad; and Wade Foster, CEO @ Zapier. This is Dan, CEO of WalkMe, and Wade, CEO of Zapier, and Mallun, Chief Business Officer of RPX, and Craig from Dialpad.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 252

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. Balancing business goals with user needs. You have to ask: “What are you hoping to get out of this feature from a business perspective?

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach New CTO 190

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

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. Specifically with regards to the last two endeavors and the journey of business building, what did you mean by the no one’s coming to save you?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Here are 10 lessons we extracted from them. Don’t build the architecture of your biggest dreams.

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Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

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?” After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. Team ???????????

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Marketplace as a Service Payments B2B SaaS Payments 59

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.

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CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 125

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Ryan Walsh : For those who don’t know really what a two-sided marketplace is, it’s when you build a business that’s relying on essentially two sets of users or constituents to be successful. Or how do you make money? Sam Jacobs : What’s been hard about it?

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Wistia , the video software platform we know and love, reminds us that businesses have focused so much on making people aware that they exist, they’ve lost sight of what matters most?: We were just mimicking things that we thought real businesses should do.". getting people to actually like their brands. Not a lot, I’d say.

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Sales Recruiting CTO Hire New CTO Sales Hiring 40

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. After all, thanks to the rise of Airbnb and similar platforms, the hospitality industry was looking for new revenue streams to boost bottom lines. Have you always been interested in starting a business?

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Interviewing CTO Hire New CTO CTO 40

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.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 188

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Because that (abandonment) wouldn’t be a solid foundation to acquire more new users.

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Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. With twenty-five years in the software business, I’ve seen my share of pricing exercises. Pricing is an incredibly important part of any SaaS product’s go-to-market strategy.

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Technical Review 40

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We follow about 30 KPIs through the sale cycle in the business.

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Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 153

Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We don’t know how to code, yet we built and sold online businesses. We’re a business person and a product person who always wanted to learn how to program, but just never gave it enough effort (that’s what we like to think). But we do know how online businesses work. Prospecting tool for generating new leads. Yeah, so?”

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Software CTO Hire Scale New CTO 75

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Building a business in Europe [14:37]. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. Walk us through the basic business model. Brandon Meyers: There’s kind of an evolution of our business, and maybe I can take you guys through that as well. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 144