Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology? It has some unique new features, though it's not positioned around those. It turns out they don't have mental energy to spare to learn about something new. Create a new category.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding. As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs. Mix and match at will.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

SaaS Community Marketing: 13 stories from software companies Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The problem of downloading multiple apps to use a service has been replaced with an easy-to-use interface free from complex installations. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Hiten has a weekly SaaS newsletter that helps readers know new strategies, learn techniques, etc.

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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. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. That takes a lot of hiring and on-boarding risk off the table. Be realistic about this.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Yousuf Khan: Well, it’s definitely evolved over time. My advice is hire earlier rather than later.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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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. We hire remarkable people, and we give them a lot of freedom for how they’re going to get their work done. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”

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