Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. That money brought us two phenomenal teammates, a really helpful mentor who's still on our board, and lots of connections and help from investors.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

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. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock. It made sense then.

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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. So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? It’s that simple.

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Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 228

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management. Shaan: In your system preferences, I think you can turn down the mic-. Dharmesh is the.

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Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 140

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

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. If I spent a bunch of time, I could probably with some coaching get passably okay at management. Shaan: In your system preferences, I think you can turn down the mic-. Dharmesh is the.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

This is someone who personally gives me a lot of energy every time we have a conversation and, uh, has just been an incredible partner, both to the fund, uh, and to, uh, operator, uh, one of the companies that we’re both involved in. I am, you know, very, very excited to have this next guest. I am joined by Cassie Young. Sense of it.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. He’s an advisor. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments. Why HG Insights?

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