Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? Some investments will generate returns within a few months, while others may take years to produce results.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

“For large enterprise customers, your stakeholder map is almost always too small” — Alex Farmer, VP CS, Cognite Data. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You have two options to ensure compliance: 1) Go through the eight-step process of sales tax compliance , including gathering the sales tax data, reconciling the data, filing the tax return, and paying wh at you owe. Or 2) File sales tax returns online through a sales tax solution that tells you when, where, and what you need to remit.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Jessie Lam. Diane Mensah. Kathleen Ting. Hande Cilingir.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare companies must adhere to a myriad of regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other industry-specific guidelines. This blog will explore the challenges faced by healthcare companies in achieving regulatory compliance.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Average salary: $95,566/yr.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. I can talk to someone and get advice with little effort and investment, but at the end of the day, will you take the chance on me?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Outseta

MARCH 21, 2018

Team: Co-founders Andy Taylor (CEO) and Navtej Sadhal (CTO). is a New Jersey based online property management platform built for both landlords and tenants. Team: Co-founders Joe DiNardi-Mack (CEO), Joseph Haddad (CTO), & Chris Finn (COO). Team: Founder & CEO Charles Hadsell. dwel.co - dwel.co Team: Founder Tyler Cubell.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. What is Buffer. Click To Tweet.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s not entirely clear to what extent this impressive result is based on an extraordinary ability to pick future winners, help make winners, or invest in companies that are already very successful when Tiger invests in them. Here are a few learnings (and some fun anecdotes) from Factorial’s journey. How times have changed!

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Today, customer recommendations are a very small portion of Amazon’s total investment in AI. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2020

Mixmax isn’t the only company that tries to talk new employees out of staying. Zappos famously pays new employees to leave after the first month. You’re going to want this new executive to be around for a long time—hiring mistakes are costly. “Learning” is the new “expertise.”

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz. Other chapters focus on risk, including evaluating the risk of entering new markets, of changing corporate culture and attitudes, and of changing CEOs. and building a startup. That’s the luck part.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. How is data being managed? Things like data residency, IM policies. There is nothing that’s more important than just protecting the user’s data. So the conversation is changing.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. We can ask GPT-4 itself: What is the cutoff date of your training data? My training data includes information up until September 2021. predecessor. My personal experience mirrors these reports. What is that date?

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

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. SaaS Community Marketing: 11 stories from software companies. We have received over 2.6k

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. What is Buffer. Tweet this quote.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Previously, she was the VP of Growth at Acorns, a consumer app for micro investing. . When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We Hila has a unique perspective, having worked in both types of businesses. Since 2019, she’s been the Director of Growth at GitLab.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

We will use only a specific set of AWS data stores. Some of the things we talked about were operational overhead and cost of various data stores we were running, along with whether or not we needed to hire dedicated database administrators for various different technologies. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. Option 1: Graduate into Data Science. So, how does data science differ? This is more than just a higher-power analyst role though.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Below are the top four key quality assurance areas that every CIO & CTO (and equivalents) are concentrating on over the short to medium term: 1. Invest in risk-based software testing Why spend millions of dollars doing the very things that have achieved sub-optimal results time after time? These decision makers need more help.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve heard “we sell to the CIO,” only to be introduced to someone whose business card said “director of data warehousing.” Second-order benefit: that means you avoid data breaches and/or save millions in ransomware and other breach-related costs.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. Before we dive into the details, it’s worth noting a couple of things: A majority of the data points (particularly at the seed stage), were from European VCs.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Tools require investment, but they also require planning to ensure that they are used by the right people in the right way.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. And so, when someone’s walking in the door at a new company, so let’s use Loom as an example, they need to learn how to be a Loommate. Sam Taylor: And so, I met Bret.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Your top subscription news. What’s the return on investment of your mom? We also have an episode of the ProfitWell Report that looks at the data from almost 2,000 companies to uncover how customer success impacts retention and churn, linked here. Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. You go through your Buzzfeed article of 10 mistakes new entrepreneurs make, we can walk down that list and check them off one by one like yep, we did that.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

But once they dug deeper into the data, they found out that their campaign generated the same amount of web traffic as a reasonably successful blog post, converted minimal leads, and generated barely any business. is a much worthier investment for your 2020. Here's the data. Is content marketing dead? Not a lot, I’d say.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. I think it’s changing, and the Spencer Stuart data in Harvard Business Review show that it’s changing too. I had all the goods, but I hadn’t done it.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. Our data team could’ve handled it, but the CLI interface would be an ongoing source friction and pain.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. 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. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Enterprise Use Case Buckets for AI If you look at the landscape of use cases right now, Douwe Kiela, CEO of ContextualAI, explained that there are essentially three big buckets: Info discovery and info synthesis — how do I get deeper insights and not just data? Hierarchical summarization — how do I turn it into something I can act on?

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