Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Spending or hiring ahead of budget to try to juice growth weren’t options in this model and we’d be forced to grow the way we wanted to: sustainably, with a focus on creative, long-term solutions for our customers and team,” said Savage.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You’re probably going to maybe give them some shares in an advisor.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And that really gave us the inspiration. You’re dot com.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Second, cloud-hosted SaaS apps meet “consumerized” technology buyers via a freemium sales models. For example, as a lead is nurtured and converts to become a customer, you might need to: Integrate payments (Stripe).

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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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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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FastSpring

MAY 2, 2025

As your software business grows large enough to expand into more countries or regions, the system or multiple systems you use to sell it can become more and more complex. Or, you can simplify the system with one global merchant of record. they found themselves with two separate shop systems. was not efficient.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Guest Speaker (Cassie Young): LinkedIn Primary VC Host (Scott Barker): LinkedIn Newsletter Find GTMnow (GTMfund’s Media Brand): Website LinkedIn Twitter/X YouTube Podcast Sponsor: Pursuit The best talent isn’t actively job hunting. Highlights: 07:53 What happens when commercial scale outgrows your technical scale. Sense of it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25)

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