Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Please join us tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM Pacific for the (final in this form — see below) SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Skilljar cofounder and CEO, Sandi Lin , discussing why product managers make great founders and the potential pitfalls they should look out for along the way. We’d like to try something else.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

A big part of your digital marketing strategy should be based around search engine optimization (SEO) and this digital marketing tool will ensure that you always make good decisions regarding your content and its appeal to search engines. The best digital marketing tools make life easier.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Daphne Koller is the founder and CEO of insitro, a company using AI and machine learning to engineer drug discovery. 03:23] AI in the life sciences [07:02] LLM for cells [11:37] Engineering disease and drug discovery [13:33] Bits vs. atoms [17:36] The opportunity ahead Why life sciences? 00:32] Why life sciences? [03:23]

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. But is this purely anecdotal? How common is it for SaaS companies to meet this benchmark? Next Level Churn Rate Analysis: Who and Why.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] There are just so many pieces—concepting, the storyboarding, writing, the creation of the 2D images, the 3D assets, and there’s the code and the physics engine.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For more than two decades, she has promoted sales development and inside sales as a community, professional, and engine for revenue growth. Jo-Anne Jaspen i s a passionate growth strategist, B2B revenue leader, mentor, and startup advisor. Kasey Jones – Cofounder, CEO + Growth Strategist at BetterGrowth.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

Jakob Marovt : This Copenhagen-based engineer was bit by the entrepreneurial bug early on in his career, which forced him to try on many hats, finally finding his passion in marketing. Mathilde Collin : At only 27, this Parisian lego-lover has cofounded and lead a successful SaaS venture, Front App.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work. The third stage is when other people can see what you are doing and now other companies try to copy and destroy you ,” explains Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda. Eva Pittas, CoFounder @ Laika. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Mukesh Mirchandani, VP, Global Field Solution Engineering @ Freshworks.

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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. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Rhonda SekaBuehler Senior Vice President of Global Sales Engineering @ WalkMe. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

It’s not all technical. RevOps is still developing as a function, so people with a lot of different experiences, like moving from engineering to marketing for example, find RevOps to be a great place to put their problem solving skills to work. Want a bit more context? Check it out. Why Follow RevOps?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

I started seeing some people from Dropbox go to be founding engineers over at Figma, the collaborative space design, still working in desktop apps. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles. Kyle Parrish: So that was my first opening. That made a ton of sense to me.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research. They were already powering AOL and Yahoo, but it was just another search engine and search engines were sort of a dime a dozen. Karl Sun: Oh, that’s a great question.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Could somebody come in and help with a technical conversation? Again, I am a cofounder at Kronologic, we are a calendar monetization engine. But whatever that person’s title is, enlist them in the sales process.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Los Altos, California with her two children. No one does it alone.

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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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