Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

By analyzing data from various touchpoints such as website interactions, purchase history, and social media engagement, businesses can identify patterns and trends. By analyzing website traffic data, businesses can identify pages with high bounce rates or low engagement, enabling them to make necessary design or content changes.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They’re able to actually swipe a credit card, and what starts off similar to a freemium self-serve product can turn into a six-figure contract in just a few months. It might even be months later that a VP of Engineering or a CTO or CFO realizes that they’re built on a new platform. The contract size grows.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. After all, a CTO can’t handhold the entire deal cycle, but they can jump in and provide clarity and an expert voice at critical points. Who doesn’t love a good combo of ham, egg and cheese?

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Retention & Engagement. A deep dive on how to understand, measure, and improve retention through activation, engagement, and resurrection. Cross-Functional Growth: Growth Series , Advanced Growth Strategy , Retention & Engagement , Monetization & Pricing , Experimentation & Testing. Retention & Engagement.

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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. No unexpected costs.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Underlying all the functional processes are myriad systems supporting and handing off each business activity to the next step, from quote to cash, from customer interview to product development to customer engagement analytics in the product. Chief Product Officer.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I met Molly, who was the COO at the time, Molly Graham.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2020

While the CTOs may be directly involved in the purchase decision-making at the startup and SMB organizations, the role of the CTO at larger organizations can be very different, and not all CTOs look the same. “A A lot of our clients want to target CTOs or C-level executives,” said Valentino Volonghi, CTO of AdRoll.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 1, 2023

⏰ Time at Buffer: 11 years, 6 months Andy was one of Buffer’s earliest hires.   You will not only build closer connections with your team members by engaging in their work, but you will also gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies of Buffer.  ” 12.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Buffer’s suite of tools helps you engage customers on social media. Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. A smaller team allows us to be more productive and move quicker.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Perhaps the single most important thing you can ever do in SaaS, at least after $1m in ARR or so, is hire the best VPs you can. We’ve talked a lot over the years about how not to hire a wrong VP of Sales — 70%+ of the first VPs of Sales don’t make it even 10 months. You need to hire up-and-comers. Get on jets?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

That’s the advice, Petri Hollmén picked up on the more technical side of things from the opening session on Day 2 with Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. We loved this one in particular, the importance of hiring, which he picked up at a side event Notion Capital ran. Full post. . Full post.

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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. What Your Job Is (And What It Isn’t) Your Job is to Make the Company Win A CTO may imagine their primary job is to provide technical expertise, lead engineers, and help build the product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What other elements of the contract should startups really spend a lot of time focusing on? 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. And how do you contract to that?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

With Off the Ledger, we are creating a valuable resource that both engages and informs our community. ”. Of course, our team is involved to an extent, and we have an external part-time moderator for support. Volume of overall engagement. Overall, it has proven to be a valuable resource for the community members.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

* How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? In the early days, partnerships can be a distraction, how does Bob determine between right and wrong when determining whether to engage in a partnership? 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

How many CSMs should you hire? This helps brands manage customer-facing functions in their entirety, from marketing and advertising to research, care, and social engagement. If we succeed, the benefits go beyond retaining revenue: successful customers spread positive word of mouth which makes it easier to attract more customers.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Buffer’s suite of tools helps you engage customers on social media. Buffer’s mission is to empower their customers to build their brand and engage their audience on social media. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. A smaller team allows us to be more productive and move quicker.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. Buyer and Seller Engagement ??? The founding team has started to hire some initial VPs or Heads Of with more experience and has demonstrated the ability to iterate and scale fast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Takeaway — While 2024 should be a bit more predictable, the most important metrics ZoomInfo is focusing on now are utilization and engagement. We’ve been in this uncertain time but should be coming out of it. The worst emotion for software sales is uncertainty. How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 30, 2023

Then he became CTO at Bezos Academy, a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Bezos. After leaving Bezos Academy, he decided to start a paid newsletter focused on career development, organization design, and hiring. My LinkedIn and Twitter engagement has drastically increased because I'm posting regularly.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department. Keep in mind that Chief Product Officers (CPO) are different from Chief Technology Officers (CTO) and Chief Marketing Officers (CMO). A CTO is one who investigates the product development aspect. Like what you are reading?

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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. Balancing internal growth with hiring.

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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. 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. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. Check them out.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. We decided at that point to bite the bullet and say everything we’re going to do, whether it’s how we architect the software, how we go to market, how we actually contract everything is SaaS from here on out. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 16, 2022

These annual executive business meetings are a wonderful time to discuss contracts. You must hold business reviews based on customer engagement and form the right cadence. Whatever suits the customer would be the right time. Whether the reviews are quarterly or annual, engaging with customers is important.

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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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

. * How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? * Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? How does Karl structure the hiring process today?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

All you’ve got to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, oh, and do all of this with less time, okay? Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Sales enablement is easy. The result?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

When I was a couple of years into my tenure at Oracle, I moved down to Latin America to Argentina, sight unseen actually, and built out a telesales group in Argentina and then later in Miami, hiring about 100 people from 11 different countries and that early building experience really whet my appetite. I came back to North America.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

All you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money. Oh, and do all of this with less time. Second sponsor Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

“The biggest thing I can do for Slack is to hire people who know a lot more than I do and give them free rein to do their best work” Adam Risman: You mentioned the team started with performance marketing. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. Andrew Chen: Exactly.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

And this is not just about something you do in a later stage, when you raise that $120,000,000 that PJ from Sherpa had done, but something you can do at the series A stage when you’re doing small hires to build out your team. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. One other thing would be talent pickup.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Really excited for engaging discussion on something I’m passionate about, the future of the customer. Our challenge and our opportunity in customer engagement is staying tightly aligned with the business drivers, having the discipline to manage long term customer journey even when the short term options might be easier.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Is there hiring decisions? But they have much less mental energy than they’ve ever had to actually engage in those changes that they’re considering. Is it product decisions?

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