SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. You have to see: A couple of good hires brought in Improvement on some metrics A big deal or two hanging out there, brought in and closed Things taken off your plate. But after a couple million in ARR, you can afford any hire if they’re accretive.

Part-Time VPE 188

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 92

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Membership combines cohort-based programs, with a year-round experience to help you learn, execute, and scale your career and your company. Data for Product Managers. Scaling Product Delivery.

CTO Coach 52

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

Outsourcing Services 192

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. You can’t grow your business if your customers don’t trust you with their sensitive data. Security affects every function across your company: from onboarding and offboarding to encrypting data and managing endpoints.

Scale 211

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? We were hired into the same role, same start date, competed head to head. Let’s go do it.

Scale 170

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators. This is why, when it came time to shift from a transactional to a subscription pricing model, our team at Hired didn’t hesitate for a moment. Customers called us.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. At what scale does that become impossible? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Scaling a sales team is not for the faint of heart – for one, it’s not even that much about selling. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. More and more people are hiring leaders, not for past experience, but for capability and capacity. We hire a third-party firm. They’ve got a proven concept they need to scale. You run the gamut.

CTO Coach 52

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SaaStr

MAY 26, 2023

Dan Robinson, current Advisor and former CTO at Heap , shares five essential learnings from nearly a decade of building a SaaS business. Register for SaaStr Annual and join 12,500 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs at SaaStr Annual for three full days of workshops, sessions, and networking — all to help you scale faster.

CTO Coach 190

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. And so we actually had to make some major adjustments and look for an alternative way to deliver the software which clearly meant that we needed to move to the cloud full-time. Want to see more content like this session?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Scaling a PLG company While it’s great to figure out a PLG model that allows you to scale your revenue with inbound, it cannot stop there. Look at your install base, do a data analytics exercise, and understand your free and paid customers. The next hiring focus should be growth marketing.

Scale 197

Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Scaling 197

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

Leadership 141

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

How can founders know when is the right time to make the move from SMB to enterprise? Where does Erica often see founders make mistakes with this scaling? With the scaling of departments and teams, what has Erica seen work really well when it comes to making cross-functional teams communicate really well?

Scale 172

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. Before we dive into the details, it’s worth noting a couple of things: A majority of the data points (particularly at the seed stage), were from European VCs.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? We also have an episode of the ProfitWell Report that looks at the data from almost 2,000 companies to uncover how customer success impacts retention and churn, linked here. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 300: When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. But the pricing is just one element, so to speak, of the contract negotiation process.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve heard “we sell to the CIO,” only to be introduced to someone whose business card said “director of data warehousing.” Second-order benefit: that means you avoid data breaches and/or save millions in ransomware and other breach-related costs.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. For me, when I’m assessing good hires, I look for some key things that I think can survive any of those things. I want to know how we leverage these technologies to empower automated testing at scale.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract.

Scale 107

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

Scale 121

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 121

SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department. For companies to scale, it is a must-have role. Keep in mind that Chief Product Officers (CPO) are different from Chief Technology Officers (CTO) and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO). This needs to be driven by customer research data.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In that case, is PLG cheaper for expanding the base than their sales-driven process? “I think it’s both if you look at scale,” Henry says. “PLG is cheaper, right? By examining a company, their intent data, the companies visiting their website, who’s on the pricing page, who the buyers are, etc.,

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. It got much better over time. A SaaStr Classic!!

Part-Time VPE 223

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 223

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Ryan has been building and scaling companies on the sales side for over 20 years. Using RepVue, you can figure out exactly what people are making.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable. background music].

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does this requirement change as the company scales? What works?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire CTO Coach 213

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

QBRs ensure that companies deliver customer outcomes in a timely manner by encouraging meetings and conversations. In a QBR meeting, customers can voice their concerns, measure their success, and scale to meet the goals they choose. These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review Systems Review Business CTO Hire 10

CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). Here are some signs to look for: When change is hard to make as a result of cascading dependencies up and down the stack.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 169

Artificial Intelligence Scale CTO Hire AI 169

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

Startup 52

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. That was the start of the Month of Scale. Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started.

CTO Coach 122

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can access the latest information, insights, trends, and data to enhance your knowledge of the latest SaaS industry developments. Asia Orangio is a SaaS expert who helps SaaS companies and start-ups to craft a data driver strategy and implement award-winning marketing strategies to win the audience. Asia Orangio. Casey Winters.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization. Edge Computing: Edge computing brings data processing and storage closer to the edge of the network, reducing latency and enabling real-time processing.

multi-cloud Kubernetes 52

multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Cloud CTO Hire 52

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. It was pretty interesting. Ross : No, the integration space.

Technical Advisors 156

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215