Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Then, we found Chargify.

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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. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. In this post, we're going to share where growth engineers come from and why they're here to stay.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. She’s looking forward to helping BetterCloud scale and become one of the most reliable solutions that customers use. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Software by nature is an imperfect industry, right? Yousuf Khan: Well, it’s definitely evolved over time.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. 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. I’m Travis Bryant.

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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?” About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Sam Jacobs: Wow.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Have they done something unique before?

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. Dharmesh is the.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. Dharmesh is the.

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