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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. 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.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” They were doing $4.6M

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

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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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So if you need to wait longer, if you need to prepare your board for a longer process, don’t just check the box because the board told you to. QUESTION 4: Comp range in OTE as a function of your current revenue.