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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. Hire a VP of Corporate Marketing and then yes, a CMO.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? How should the success of marketing be measured? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. Sam Taylor: And so, I met Bret.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3. apareceu primeiro em SaaSholic.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He is a speaker in top communities on inbound marketing, startups, SaaS companies, etc. Hiten Shah is a popular entrepreneur in the SaaS and digital marketing space. He also featured in The New York Times and CB Insights. Dharmesh Shah.

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How To Build (Internal) Trust As A CMO

Outseta

That’s pretty wild if you think about it, but the source of the problem is quite clear to me: CMOs are failing to build trust with their CEOs and leadership teams. Salespeople constantly talk about the importance of building trust with buyers, and marketers reflect often on the importance of social proof and building a trustworthy brand.

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10 Companies Show you their Positioning Strategy for Marketing

Upscope

April Dunford's definition: " In order to break through the noise, companies would need to take into account their own strengths and weaknesses, then contrast them with their competitors to create a unique leadership position in the minds of customers. through the marketing mix. " Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology?

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. So first, if you take a step back, I think that marketing is really a practitioner discipline. We also did a lot of co-marketing. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content.