SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But what’s new this year? Let me make a list: New!! But we’re turning this around this year and letting our top-rated practioner speakers do “Masterclasses” on new content teaching you how to scale faster. We’ll have a lot of options, but dead center of Annual is our new Cantina. 1,000+ VCs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

Ciara Peter (Gainsight VP of Product & Design) and Mickey Alon (CTO & Founder of Gainsight PX) share their practical tips for product leaders looking to achieve business growth. Every year, millions of new products are created and launched. The return on marketing investment is much faster. Key Takeaways.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

When Jason was an SVP at Adobe, product marketing was super important since basically every business on the planet was an Adobe customer, so they didn’t have as many opportunities to iterate on either product or marketing. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Product marketing is neither marketing nor product.

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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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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. He has also invested in businesses, like Figma, Vanta, and Webflow, among others. He later branched into hosting podcasts , called Lenny’s Podcast.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 12, 2019

I’m focusing on engineering in these examples, but the experience applies to other areas of the business. The team felt busy, and reports were encouraging. Does a new senior member have the right to challenge a historical decision made by a junior developer? We needed a CTO. Full disclosure. It feels really expensive!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

They want to use AI to transform their business and how they and their employees work. Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one. ” What are the Most Important Investments that Ensure a Future 50 Company Can Adopt?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

However, since the adoption was so strong from users, the founders quickly realized that there was a big-time business opportunity with JFrog. If the PLG strategy is implemented well with a quick time to value, the cost of acquiring new customers and upselling the customers provides for a very efficient business model.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Some investments will generate returns within a few months, while others may take years to produce results.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. ” — Ankit Sindhi, Founder, Spurt.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. VCs can only invest in outliers.

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Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many Chief Customer Officers and Customer Success (CS) leaders, this marks the beginning of a very stressful time as you prepare to have the challenging conversation with your CFO about how to properly invest in your Customer Success teams. This makes it challenging to secure investment.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a SaaS business, Intercom is a data processor: our customers entrust us with their data, which we store and process on their behalf. We do that by: Investing in your trust through compliance with industry security and privacy ISO standards or frameworks such as SOC 2. Investing significantly in safeguarding our customers’ trust.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. At Click Ventures, Carman uses her impressive skills to lead companies on the right path, with an unheard of failure rate of funded businesses – below 10%.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

OpenView is thrilled to announce our recent $9M Series A investment in Loopio , a software platform that helps sales teams respond to RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires seamlessly with up-to-date, accurate, and approved content. Loopio co-founders from left to right: Matt York, CTO; Jafar Owainati, COO; Zakir Hemraj, CEO.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. It’s part of doing business! Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We Reduce the risk of audits (and possible back taxes).

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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2023

“I’m no longer excited about the new product that we’re building, but I want to keep funding it because we’re out raising money and VCs like it as part of the pitch.” It means running your business differently because you are trying to raise money. No investor wants to invest on terms inferior to the prior investors.

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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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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. but is a good rule of thumb to measure the revenue return on R&D dollars invested.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As part of this partnership, Dropbox has made a $5 million investment in BetterCloud. Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes.

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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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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $191,286/yr.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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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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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!

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As the pandemic hit, we, like most businesses, prepared for the worst. I expected our customers’ businesses to be fairly resilient in a downturn, but we were facing economic headwinds that hadn’t been experienced for nearly a century. We dramatically increased our investment in product development. We acquired SalesRight.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This series attempts to give practical advice to SaaS CEOs and Founders on how to organize and automate their financial backend , giving them freedom to spend time with more value-adding parts of their business like financial planning. What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

376: In part two, ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. You start this business. They’ve invested in all of these other businesses.

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Outseta

MARCH 21, 2018

The real estate tech start-ups listed below range from companies that are still developing their products to venture-backed businesses that have already found significant traction and revenue. Team: Co-founders Andy Taylor (CEO) and Navtej Sadhal (CTO). Team: Founder & CEO Charles Hadsell. dwel.co - dwel.co

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 23, 2021

Niche: Entrepreneurship, investment, mindset. Why Gary is Successful: Credited with turning his family’s brick-and-mortar liquor business into the first online booze provider, Gary has an entrepreneurial mindset and a unique understanding of the demands of the digital world. Niche: Business and mindset for female entrepreneurs.

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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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