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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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. I am passionate about working with partners to grow existing relationships and forging new partnerships to ultimately help grow businesses through product innovation and Stax is the perfect place to do this.” Stax Payments , Inc.,

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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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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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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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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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. Traditionally, the product function fell under Technology. Let’s look at a quick overview of the key ideas from the talk. There’s more.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. Somebody that has a passion for innovation — somebody that is upwardly mobile within their career — they are looking for something new, something great, a way to stick out. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract.

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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

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 let’s build on that a little bit more and talk a little bit more specifically about technology. So those are two sides of the equation.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. The success of a cryptocurrency project depends on many factors, such as the strength of the technology, the adoption and support of the community, the availability of funding, and regulatory compliance.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To stay on top of the fast paced, evolving digital world, issues like hiring and managing a diverse and highly skilled SaaS workforce, as well as security and privacy concerns impacting everything from customer contracts to product strategies and new market development, HR and security management is being elevated into in the C-Suite.

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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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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

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

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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. Programs are 4-6 weeks in length, part-time, and held in a virtual format, guided by an executive. A methodology for product and engineering leaders to ship innovative products at scale.

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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. For your own good.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

Last time around, Meta announced LLaMA but made the full details—most importantly, model weights—available only to a limited set of researchers. But someone leaked those weights within days of the announcement, and that led to an explosion of innovation among independent researcher-hobbyists.

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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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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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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

MARCH 26, 2024

Q: What Do You Think AI Will Do to the Next Generation of Innovators and Disruptors? Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. You need an A+ team, disruption, cutting-edge technology, triple-digit growth, and efficiency.

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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? It’s not just about it being cool, it’s about what Jay said, is it delivering value, right?

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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. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. Alex Turnbull. Dharmesh Shah.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. To improve the efficiency of spend on cost of goods sold (COGS), most growth-stage leaders can optimize seat-based spend or renegotiate consumption-based contracts in a quarter or 2.

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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. Welcome to Episode 214! I came back to North America. We talk a lot about the bottoms up and the top down. Both are incredibly important.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. And then helping being able to drive innovation across the company.

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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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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

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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer). It was an amazing exercise to build muscle and continue innovating in how we run GTMfund. Mark was Outreach employee #1 and former SVP of Global Sales, where he grew ARR from zero to over $200M.

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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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Stax

APRIL 16, 2025

Stax CTO, Mark Sundt , recently sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS for an eye-opening conversation about the exciting future of AI and how it’s poised to revolutionize the business world. What is Multi-Party Computation , MPC One of the most exciting developments discussed was the Multi-Party Computation (MPC) model.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Pursuit helps companies hire elite go-to-market talent on a non-retainer basis. If you’re hiring for sales or marketing roles, reach out to Pursuit at pursuitsalessolutions.com/gtm or message a GTMfund team member. So perception was the reality of how the roadmap equals innovation. So 2013 was sort of this era.

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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. So, I’m Chief Technology Officer, and years ago I was volunteered by my co-founder to work on culture. Who actually knows stuff and does things?”

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