Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires. While he has worked mostly in iOS and apps, he’s also dabbled in marketing, too — Andy’s had a hand in building almost every part of the Buffer website! ” 7. ” 12.

VP of Engineering 127

VP of Engineering Part-Time CTO New CTO CTO 127

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts. Emilie : So, yes. Emilie : Okay.

New CTO 172

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 172

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, there’s one continuous streamlined customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, Outreach allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable. Are they hiring?

Marketplace as a Service 111

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 111

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Obviously, you should definitely jump at opportunities like this. 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. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. These are ideas that offer high ROI at a low implementation cost. Full post. .

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Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

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.

Part-Time CTO 69

Part-Time CTO CTO CTO Hire Management 69

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?

Cloud 170

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 170

Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Al Ries definition: " Positioning is not what you do to the product; it’s what you do to the mind of the prospect. Positioning compensates for our over-communicated society by using an oversimplified message to cut through the clutter and get into the mind. What is positioning? It’s how you differentiate your brand in the mind.

Strategy 128

Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

Simmone talks about her experience building Gilt City and Kidpass as a woman of color and how she advises companies to build diversity and inclusion into their hiring practices and sales teams. How to build diversity into your hiring practices. It really starts in how you’re hiring. Unconscious bias is a part of all of us.

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Sales Hiring Revenue CTO Coach CTO Hire 89

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract. You would approach it by hiring more people.

Enterprise 79

Enterprise CTO Hire Startup Technical Cofounder 79

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

We have been running our community for more than a year now. . Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. We don’t necessarily think it affects our sales, but it definitely impacts overall customer satisfaction. .

Marketing 98

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 98

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

In the same way that globalization can be a substitute for automation, social networking is, you know, like letting people access everyone else in the world for entertainment, for fun, for communication, for whatever you want to do. I think when you go six months behind the frontier, or definitely one year, it’s brutal.

AI Search 143

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 143

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development. The company even took $2.5M

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer discovery interviews help marketers communicate with potential customers. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. It’s harder to identify your buyer persona and the main jobs they hire you to do (JTBD theory).

Interviewing 76

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The challenge in each case is the same—the company is hiring you at a lower level of commitment than a full-time hire, usually with the expectation that they will see some ROI relatively quickly. Full-time Head of Marketing I’ve been hired to lead marketing teams at four companies in a full-time capacity now.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale. Jeff Winters: I’m worried you’re not going to think they’re funny, definitely not by today’s standard. I see this online all the time.

Scale 87

Scale Artificial Intelligence Sales Recruiting Consulting 87

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

We have been running our community for more than a year now. Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. We don’t necessarily think it affects our sales, but it definitely impacts overall customer satisfaction. We have 2592 community members now (and counting) .

Marketing 40

Marketing Social Media SaaS New CTO 40

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer discovery interviews help marketers communicate with potential customers. We tend to believe that the technical aspects of our product are the most important differentiator because that’s what our CTO says. It’s harder to identify your buyer persona and the main jobs they hire you to do (JTBD theory).

Interviewing 52

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 225

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 225

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I met Molly, who was the COO at the time, Molly Graham.

Scale 237

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 237

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

With the scaling of departments and teams, what has Erica seen work really well when it comes to making cross-functional teams communicate really well? What are the inflection points where Erica often see communication or process begin to breakdown? How should compensation plans be altered with the move? I came back to North America.

Scale 204

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 204

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

Sales Hiring 236

Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 236

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. RingCentral is a unified communications as a service space, UCAS. Vlad : Definitely technologist.

Scale 196

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 196

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Definitely working on it. And one of the things I realized is that change in culture, probably the biggest thing that we need to do both as leaders and companies, but as well as operators is be very transparent, number one, about what you’re doing and over communicate. Yousuf Khan: Well, it’s definitely evolved over time.

Technical Advisors 228

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 228

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

All marketing communications, paid or unpaid, online or offline, should be aligned to maximise results. What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. If you have some sort of budget – I’d recommend hiring someone in-house.

Interviewing 81

Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated. How do I communicate? How do I store data?

Sales Recruiting 205

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 205

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Paul Rosania: But really more than anything, I think slowing down a little bit, spending a little bit more time writing things down and using long form writing or some equivalent, more thought out and edited way of communicating is actually what’s needed in a time when it’s hard for people to communicate.

CTO Coach 206

CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire Software Review 206

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. I’ve definitely had my wrist slapped, you know, a handful of times, but I’d rather air on that.

Scale 77

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 77

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. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

VP of Engineering 147

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 147

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. 44:31 The power of community and in-person events. 18:13 The role of cross-functional communication. 44:31 The power of community and in-person events. So my company Operators Guild or the community is launching its 21st chapter. Casey Woo: That’s right.

Sales Recruiting 82

Sales Recruiting Scale Finance Underperforming Technical Team 82