OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Our August SaaS conversation focused on high performance in R&D, with OPEXEngine CEO and Founder Lauren Kelley hosting Bain Expert Partner Rob Levy for an energizing discussion on this critical topic. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. .

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. She is currently on the verge of starting a new FinTech startup which will be her fifth but she has built close to 100 startups for other people over the years. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. Q: In your career, did you actively seek out coaches, sponsors, and mentors? Gabby: You should always seek out mentors. It’s great self-learning.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a new podcast called SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis. I just knew there was always going to be something new to learn and I wasn’t going to get stagnant in it. ” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.”

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. As new products are released, we will be embedding our team earlier into the value chain so we can prevent problems before they occur.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. Were there any mentors that helped you get to where you are today? There’ve been some key mentors for me in my career.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. 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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I first got into PPC, then SEO, and then I joined a SaaS company – Chanty – where my SaaS journey started.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. You’re probably going to maybe give them some shares in an advisor. People that can, not just from a numbers standpoint, but from a culture and mentoring standpoint. New category. What do I do now?

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

If you take the consultant route to the C-Suite, it can open new doors in the career. Search for a mentor who can show you the way to the top. Once you tell a C-Suite executive how much you admire them and wish them to be your mentor, it can open doors for your career.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit. Want to see more content like this session?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. Thanks to their extensive experience coaching and interacting with customers, CS teams have an exclusive perspective as they are on the frontlines of the customer-company relationship.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karl made his way into the world of SaaS with the founding of Lucidchart having been Head of Business Development for Google in China and Head of Patents. * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Figma made the product SaaS-based. You need a lot of education.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. And that kind of sets the incentives and kind of you can’t get a new co-founder or a team member multiple of those to your business.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Most recently he was the CRO of a SaaS company that grew from 35 million when he joined to 120 million. And by the time the song comes out, you’re not even going to really appreciate it because you’ve written 20 new songs, and those are the ones that you can’t wait to hear. Ryan, welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

I think this is one of the great things about being in SaaS and all of you at our SaaS conference is that you can address the entire world. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth. So I found myself in London, a one of one employee introducing this new brand to advertising agencies in Europe.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. Primarily I’m interested in companies that focus on SaaS , perhaps have some sort of AI angle to that. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing. Just as a CTO may have to explain the importance of technical projects to a CEO, the CMO needs to educate the CEO on the various ways marketing can drive their business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Dharmesh Shah : So, a quick confession before I start, which is like I love SaaS, I love it. Or, my favorite, I’m new, this is my first time.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management. So this is Dharmesh.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management. So this is Dharmesh.

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