Valerian Tech

JUNE 19, 2023

Safeguarding Intellectual Property Healthcare companies invest heavily in research and development to drive innovation in medical treatments, technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Protecting intellectual property is crucial to maintain a competitive edge in the industry.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). After all, once your company goes public, you’ll be expected to justify every dollar you spend. And finding inefficiencies in overhead (e.g.,

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Data analytics also enables businesses to develop more personalized marketing campaigns, target niche customer segments, and deliver tailored experiences. By utilizing data analytics, e-commerce companies can innovate, differentiate their offerings, and create a unique value proposition that resonates with their target audience.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies. Geoffrey: A lot of this is about choosing standard, or maybe even “boring” technologies.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Created with Fareed Mosavat (Chief Development Officer at Reforge, formerly Slack, Instacart). Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Programs are 4-6 weeks in length, part-time, and held in a virtual format, guided by an executive.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. RevOps, with a broader mandate usually than SalesOps, sits under a CRO to ensure alignment among all systems and support each part of the business lifecycle. Chief Product Officer.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Companies must continuously innovate to stay relevant.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. So we want to develop software faster. Eyal Manor : The point you made earlier is exactly spot-on which is development velocity is strategic to everyone here.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

Considering this, companies are contemplating hiring a C-suite executive to head their AI team and handle related matters. If you follow the discussions happening within the industry, you would be aware of the arguments against hiring a CAIO. At the same time, there are a respectable number of discussions in favor of hiring a CAIO.

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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 Karl structure the hiring process today? What works?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. You can access the latest information, insights, trends, and data to enhance your knowledge of the latest SaaS industry developments. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. You can do amazing things.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. So certainly at New Relic we started to see enterprise customers come to us and usually it was individual developers or small teams within large corporations.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

There is a big set of trends happening right now, which is with the downturn and I tweeted this a while back like at the beginning of the downturn that like every customer is scrutinizing, do they really need this technology or not? Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Ways to use technology to help you sound less automated [26:01]. ” In terms of the technology, I don’t have the ability to build this technology. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. I see this online all the time. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. Keep going.

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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. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right?

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

A digital experience platform is not just a single experience provider, no matter how revolutionary or innovative. Do we have the technical support, in-house or contracted, to take on the learning curve of an emerging platform? Just as important as a definition of what a digital experience platform is what it’s not.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In terms of product, I don’t mean technology. It’s important to have good defensible technology and have a mote. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. Should I hire two backend developers or a product design?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? We just stayed the course, but we did and do have a recurrent revenue model, we had predictable revenues, we weren’t maybe hiring as fast as we would have otherwise, but we never had to lay off. We did not.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people. You are no longer in “innovation” mode.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. Mistake 5) Promoting your culture on your careers page.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

The technology just wasn’t there. You can actually look at a lot of social networking technology as if it’s almost an alternative to AI. Everyone has their own special technology that they can add to the models. We think a ton of innovation is going to come from these companies. Is the model the product?

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand? How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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