Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Cultural leaders—athletes, entertainers, and executives—have evolved beyond mere financial backers to highly-engaged strategic partners and advisors for a company’s growth. For example, an executive may have a large and engaged following on LinkedIn but not be active on Instagram. Customers can smell inauthenticity a mile away.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Innovation Technical Cofounder Development Team Review 93

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The first sales hire needs to do all of the selling, build the playbook, and (probably) act as a Sales Development Representative doing cold outbound prospecting. Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. This means there needs to be regular engagement from the advisor.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Her award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. For more than two decades, she has promoted sales development and inside sales as a community, professional, and engine for revenue growth. She is also a part of the Women Sales Pros advisory board.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Seeking financing from friends and family.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She left Stanford to cofound Coursera with Andrew Ng and is now the founder and CEO of Insitro, a tech bio company using AI to develop drugs in life sciences. You could start doing active learning or do experimental design, and it’s a really exciting technical discipline at this point. Could you double-click on that?

Artificial Intelligence 80

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Scale 80

Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

While this is a great way to engage your audience and send traffic to your website, it’ll only work in your favor if you have a solid plan in place. You also get keyword ideas and suggestions that are relevant to the one you’re searching for so you can update older content or develop a content marketing plan. Followerwonk.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Social Media Marketing Business 144

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!

Part-Time VPE 223

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 223