SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. Thanks for everyone who took the time to write their impressions and share with the community. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. In his own words: Notion Capital organised an excellent panel event focusing on hiring.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. One interesting thing that Joel shared with us, was that he realized implementing these software tools would require a large investment, but he consciously made that decision: I would gladly spend $100,000 on a tool if that would allow me to avoid hiring.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. One interesting thing that Joel shared with us, was that he realized implementing these software tools would require a large investment, but he consciously made that decision: I would gladly spend $100,000 on a tool if that would allow me to avoid hiring.

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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?

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department. Keep in mind that Chief Product Officers (CPO) are different from Chief Technology Officers (CTO) and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO). A CTO is one who investigates the product development aspect. Like what you are reading?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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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%.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It also delivers contextual information for what your communications to those companies should be based on your website, case studies, and its understanding of your business. By examining a company, their intent data, the companies visiting their website, who’s on the pricing page, who the buyers are, etc.,

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Quick recap: Keep your pricing simple. 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. You’ve got to learn about sales, about marketing and, otherwise, you need to hire a lot of other people around you to help. Eric Yuan: Yep.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Collaboration and Communication: Cloud-based collaboration and communication tools, such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Workspace, or Slack, enhance team productivity and streamline workflows. Cost Management: Cloud computing offers cost efficiencies, but it requires effective cost management.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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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.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. This can range from help with pricing, retention, and churn, as well as providing subscription financial metrics so a customer can see everything that is going on from acquisition all the way through to retention.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Positioning compensates for our over-communicated society by using an oversimplified message to cut through the clutter and get into the mind. It turns out that I primarily communicate on Intercom these days and so send very few emails. Summary of how to 8X your price. It’s how you differentiate your brand in the mind.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

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. I think the combination of transparency and over communication is the key there, really.

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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?

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In HubSpot’s case, we eventually hired a world-class data science team, but our scoring only improved by a few points,” notes Redbord. You’ll need someone familiar with your data—perhaps a CTO or someone responsible for business operations. Did you change your pricing? How will you proactively communicate with them?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible. Check them out at www.outreach.io. So what did that mean for us?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. Get best price tickets here!!! Which role should you hire for first? I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level.

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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).

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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).

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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. There’s just a lot of work. I think different startups will choose different paths here.

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