SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

To date, they have raised over $73M from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Point Nine to name a few. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 28, 2020

Welcome to the first episode of RevOps and Hops, a show that breaks down everything about Revenue Operations while enjoying some of the best hops around. Sit down with Chargify CTO Michael Klett and I, as we unravel the mysteries of RevOps. Dave is currently launching a new product called Smart Journeys.

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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. Black Holes: these are ideas that take up a lot of company effort while offering poor ROI.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Initially, businesses only see a few basic requirements, but later realize there is much more hidden below the surface as it relates to the ongoing creation and maintenance of custom code. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. costs money and 2.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

First it was Wistia , followed shortly thereafter by Buffer ; both buyouts a sort of declaration of independence that gave both companies back the ability to build their businesses on their own terms. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth.

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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. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Emilie : So, yes.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Jonathan: And you describe yourself as a technologist first, or a business person? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. How do they distinguish between culture and values?

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

The monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of my MarTech startup Friendly recently has exceeded $1,000 – just 94 days after its launch. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. But the launch generated at least one new test customer, with more to come in the next few days.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Frida Ahrenby : “I started out in sales in the TelCo industry, I started from working in one of the biggest TelCo providers in the Nordics, moving on to product management, then business development, and then a role in marketing and sales again. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. I think it’s that willingness to travel that continues keeping us a head of the curve, continues teaching us how to continue building a great business. We had no New York city presence.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Flexible integration with any other software, hardware or business workflow applications. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To date, Karl has raised $114M with Lucidchart from some of the best in the business including K9 Ventures, Meritech, Iconiq, GV and Kickstart in Utah. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. They’re used to validate a business plan or a hypothesis and turn them into something profitable. Customer development interviews. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Let’s dig in!

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Why building trust with your internal team is the hallmark of great marketing leaders By Geoff Roberts The role of the modern Chief Marketing Officer is a tough one—you’d be hard pressed to name another position that requires a wider range of skills.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. They’re used to validate a business plan or a hypothesis and turn them into something profitable. Customer development interviews. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. Let’s dig in!

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. And they’re taking the time now to create those workplace resilient playbooks as part of their business continuity plan. We’re already in this like a new gen.” And it can’t be a rash decision, right?

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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. We were also teachers, we taught in the classroom, so we knew how to teach the first courses.

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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? And so really it became a bad habit. What have been some of the challenges?

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