SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

It’s a time when SaaS and Cloud spend are also at record highs , and many Cloud leaders are still growing at strong rates … yet many startups have stopped growing at all. VCs would overlook startups that had raised too much money in the Go-Go days, or had lots of founder turmoil, or lots of churn, if the growth was there.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In December, we announced European data hosting , the result of one of Intercom’s biggest ever infrastructure projects. We identified some “ known unknowns” too; problems we needed to solve, but didn’t know how just yet – like integrating the new region into our billing system. What we knew – and what we didn’t.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

Indeed this was also my #1 mistake and the #1 I see from so many startups learning to go upmarket. “For large enterprise customers, your stakeholder map is almost always too small” — Alex Farmer, VP CS, Cognite Data. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing. Are we sure?

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female. A friend of mine told me there was a call center job in a tech startup for Dutch speakers, and I just fell in love with the fast-paced, exciting environment. Because he is.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In this framework, you’ll learn how to design a scoring system that aligns to your growth strategy, brainstorm and select leader indicators of success, and operationalize the system across your startup. It’s the marriage of quantitative and qualitative data,” says Marcus. Drive new levers of growth. Get it done faster.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

A related question is whether the arrival of Generative AI, and the fact that it’s become 10x easier to build AI-powered software, is a net benefit for AI-first SaaS startups. A few years ago, Louis wrote an excellent article titled Routes to Defensibility for your AI Startup.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. You need a lot of education.

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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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Frontegg

JANUARY 27, 2022

While the latter is a complete language with calls and functions to handle or process data, webhooks sit in predefined parts of the app and are fully automated. This allows data manipulation before the call and lets the recipient to control the flow as per the product requirements. 3 – Improve Cross-Department Collaboration.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This quarter new records were set thanks to our customers and their amazing feedback as well as growing momentum in the User Management space that helped us earn the Momentum Leader badge. G2’s momentum grid takes multiple factors into account including social, web, employee, and review data. The Leading Solution for Startups and SMBs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. She has been around the globe, working in startups and digital agencies in Brazil, Germany, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. The reason? Diny Gomes.

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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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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2023

Startup CEOs can learn an important lesson from pilots. In my work with startups, I periodically see CEOs surprisingly stop flying the aircraft first. I’m no longer excited about the new product that we’re building, but I want to keep funding it because we’re out raising money and VCs like it as part of the pitch.”

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

The monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of my MarTech startup Friendly recently has exceeded $1,000 – just 94 days after its launch. And by talking to people from this audience and researching their biggest problems, I noticed two major trends in marketing: Companies want more data sovereignty. It ended the day in 31st place with 50 votes.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally. The article also emphasizes the importance of big ideas, patience, resilience, and support within the ecosystem for the success of Latin American startups.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. A simple control panel brings it all together and makes infrastructure management easy.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A few months back, I was inspired by a section in Scott Barker’s “The Forecast” newsletter where he referenced some data from Chorus.ai 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. Who doesn’t love a good combo of ham, egg and cheese?

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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. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Average salary: $95,566/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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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. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

In it, Co-Founder and CRO of Kronologic, Aaron Bollinger, shows us how to close enterprise level deals when you’re a startup. All right guys, welcome to the Sales Hacker’s Success Summit presentation, How To Close The Enterprise When You Are Just A Startup. Have they created something new before? What You’ll Learn.

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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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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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Dee: And you’ve worked in the industry for more than 22 years, so you have an incredible insight into the expansion of cloud networks, enterprise and data center technologies.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

Some of the best content to be found about startups is locked in books. Instead I’ve written a blog post about the nine favorite books I’ve read over the last five years have helped me understand startups and the processes that make them successful. and building a startup.

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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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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.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

1) You can build a global SaaS winner from Europe Until a few years ago, European SaaS startups with big ambitions had to move to the US. One reason was that there was not enough funding in Europe and that most US VCs didn’t invest in early-stage startups in Europe. How times have changed!

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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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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. And with that, more data disintegration.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products.

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