Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Pete was a Google Associate Product Manager for AdSense and launched Google App Engine. First, hire a management coach to work with you as the company grows. These were some of the things I learned from Pete. And you should do it right then.

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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. Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. The CRO leads Sales, Marketing, and Operations, plus often Customer Success.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? Is that not?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2022

Miguel Carranza, CTO at RevenueCat, shares ten learnings from firsthand experience in architecting an API & SDK that is currently on 5,000+ apps and has seen 3x growth Year-over-Year. . But the reality is that when you’re trying to find product-market fit, that probably shouldn’t be your concern.” What makes a great API?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey. What about the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids? How many CSMs should you hire? Product marketers: move west. The Product Marketing Alliance dropped the Product Marketing Salary Survey.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So mid-market, we’re about 40 to 50K ACV enterprise. And actually when we started, I see one face in the room that I recognize, Kurt Freytag, was one of our big customers at the time when I joined. So you were the first sales hire. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. What’s your ACV today?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Product Marketing Work for Product or Marketing?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. 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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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. 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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 4, 2021

To handle this evolving requirement, it is important to build a competent profile to initiate progress in product development. This is where companies need another C-level executive to facilitate business growth via products. What makes a chief product officer (CPO) different from a CTO or a VP in the product department.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How do you build a best-in-class go-to-market model to get to 100mn ARR and beyond? Marketing, design, and product teams work to optimize one end of the funnel at the cost of the other. If you have product market fit, don’t wait to implement outbound. The next hiring focus should be growth marketing.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Asawari Samant, Head of Marketing @ Anyscale. Kady Srinivasan, Head of Marketing @ Klaviyo. Jessica Weimer Vice President, Global Revenue Marketing @ Podium. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired.

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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 Gartner says 2018, the SaaS market is over $73 billion dollar, it’s growing very, very quickly. Eyal Manor: So we have a lot to talk about. what are your thoughts?

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Not only for the product side, but for the sales and marketing side. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. And, to be an engineer, really can help you because you really understand what’s going on the market.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Nikita Miller VP of Product @ Dooly. Brittany Bingham, VP of Marketing @ Guru. Sara Hicks, VP of Product, Commerce @ Mailchimp. Mariela Towers, Head of Marketing @ BEE. Katrina Wong, VP Marketing and Demand Generation @ Segment. Asawari Samant, Head of Marketing @ Anyscale. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

When an engineer turned marketer helps position multiple companies to grow from, for example, $2 million to $70 million in 18 months, it's time to listen. Below we'll cover what positioning in marketing is, why you should RTFM of April Dunford's book and give you 10 positioning examples and a couple of links to templates.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

Hired CEOs: It’s the Board’s Company vs. It’s My Company to Run. You become a hired CEO primarily through one path — climbing the corporate ladder at a large tech company [5a], reaching the GM or CXO level, and then deciding to branch out. Dave started his career in technical and product marketing positions at Ingres and Versant.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

As for Erica, under her CRO role, she leads all go-to-market functions including Marketing, Sales, Operations, Customer Success, Services, and Support. How does the role of marketing change with the move to enterprise? How does this move impact the relationship between sales and marketing?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Immediately told them to hire 50 reps in a different city, in a different city, and they did. The CEO was deferential because that was 10 times what he’d ever raised before, and did all of it. Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. He is the creative mind behind Box’s product and platform. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Or if you have products that require some configuration–think about Salesforce, Segment, things like that–someone needs to set it up. Those products are built for prosumers. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I do my own reference calls.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So we didn’t have product market fit for that. So it worked successfully, but it didn’t get to where they wanted to be, which was at the time, I think, 1 to 2% of the gift card market in a year, which, in a payments world, to get people to adopt something that fast is very difficult.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. Let’s dig in!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s become quicker to build your first product, test your market, and people really have role models around them and understand how to get that started. Super tough market, difficult playbook. Pietro : This journey used to end at the legendary, mythical product/market fit. It’s become cheaper.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How does Paul approach such large product decisions today? What does really effective product marketing mean to Paul? It’s faster to get this to market and iterate on it and make it great if we skip over a lot of those controls. Is it product decisions? Is there hiring decisions?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. Let’s dig in!

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode wants to see technology transform decentralized applications, smart contracts, decentralized governance, voting systems, and more. Bunsen, a serial founder and multi-CTO before starting QuikNode, had used Baremetrics in previous roles and was familiar with the value it brought to growing businesses. Gain valuable feedback.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

When you sell subscriptions in the B2C market, it’s important to forge strong connections with your customers. Because the contracts are typically much higher in these sales agreements, B2B subscriptions often require a much longer sales process before your customer will consider making a purchase. Market data.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. As a startup, are you managing for revenue, market share or profitability? 3 Simple Tips for Pricing SaaS Products in the Early Days.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

“Our renewal rate looked great, but as we began to dig into data, we realized it was because of our CS team and their high levels of service—it wasn’t necessarily a reflection of our software, our product/go-to-market fit, or the pain we were solving in the market,” he says. “We Identify ideal customers and hone sales personas.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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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, let me just share with you what a rogue former marketer as done with a culture and people ops team, and how we approach culture, and how we measure it at HubSpot.

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