Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Common activities your SaaS should focus on during the pre-startup stage can include: Talking to potential customers. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. CEO Alex Turnbull explains “more customers means more bugs. Related reads: 8 Actionable Ways To Get Your Startup’s First 100 Customers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Christa Diaz, Senior Director, Customer Success @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Maya Colato VP of Customer Experience @ Mapistry.

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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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

I guess my question to you, and it sounds so rude, but it’s like, in a model like this, is sales not just customer success? That’s what we’re seeing being really successful. At Figma, for example, we actually don’t have a customer success team. Kyle Parrish: No, it really isn’t.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Again, I am a big believer in the power of customer storytelling for helping sales outcomes. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. No one does it alone.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.

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