OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. . R&D Spend as a % of Revenue Benchmarks. Financial KPIs.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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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 cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. It’s changing the landscape for large enterprise that you are very familiar with. what are your thoughts? How do companies go through this journey? Where is your storage?

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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. No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Companies must continuously innovate to stay relevant.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When I joined GitLab, I was starting a new product-led growth team within the product organization,” Hila says. “We But a company might also be doing team acquisition within a mid-market or large enterprise company, which will be a slightly different funnel with different tactics and steps.”. Activation. Retention & Expansion.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

The competitive advantage comes from the fact that enterprises of all sizes want to see enterprise-ready software. This is true irrespective of whether these said enterprises are building the software or buying it. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

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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. t" moments the day after a new patch or version is applied throughout your system. You should not accept testing programs that test only the convenient things and result in "oh s!#t"

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Yousuf made his way from the UK to the valley and how that led to his becoming one of the leading CIOs today in the rising prominence of CIOs in enterprise. What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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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. Download Aaron’s Checklist for Closing Enterprise Deals Here. Find innovators (10:36). ? Identify who your innovators are, seek out those innovators. Have they created something new before?

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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. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. Most recently, Yousuf was the CIO and VP of Customer Success at Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise, providing automatic resolution of IT issues.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He also featured in The New York Times and CB Insights.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Tips on Enterprise Pricing. New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” This post will guide you through 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider, along with high-profile examples of companies who are testing them.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. It was pretty interesting. They’re sweating.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We launched REGIE, our product, back in February, but we’re releasing the new and improved REGIE now. I go to the 500th floor of this enormous edifice in New York, and I walk in. We brought in this brilliant CTO who’s got a PhD in informatics. Then last is do-it-yourself, and we’re really excited.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. What’s your advice for innovative SEO in a space that’s already really crowded?

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? As new options roll out, keeping customer experiences seamless and continuous across all digital platforms grows is highly important. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. This episode is an excerpt from Jason and Loren’s session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. We’re already in this like a new gen.”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Vlad: So what’s the new reality? So we needed to kind of get the new mindset going.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Simmone Taitt , CEO of HeartSpace Consulting , and a longtime sales leader and consultant in the New York community. I’m an advisor at some of the best tech accelerators here in New York. Sam Jacobs : We are incredibly excited today to have Simonne Taitt on the show.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The New Sales is about Relationships. Jensen Harris, CTO of Textio, described just how broad this reaches. “If So as salespeople, we have to prepare for — and embrace — this new normal. How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets with Al Ramadan. Or are you creating a new aisle altogether?

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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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