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. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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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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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Traditionally, it’s the chief officer of finance or operations. Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. We do it across the board.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. Why are you and your team the best people to invest in? Be realistic about this.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

To date, Automation Anywhere has raised over $840m in financing from Salesforce Ventures, Workday, General Atlantic and NEA, to name a few. What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch. Robert Kern, CTO & Co-Founder, PredictHQ.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

His posts shed light on SaaS finance and calculations. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Liz writes in publications like Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

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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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Kellblog

MAY 10, 2023

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.” VCs do a lot of work preparing for their internal investment committee, and you can usually tell when they’re doing it. five years).

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. We invest mainly in the growth stage, so think series B, series C, but also somethings earlier as well as some later stage buyouts.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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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? Finance departments aren’t the biggest fans of surprises, especially if you’re a public company.

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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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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. The scariest thing a new CEO can say is “it looks like you guys had a bad quarter” [9].

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They had occasional advertising here and there. Here’s Rachel.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? Loving our podcast content? What works?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And by the time the song comes out, you’re not even going to really appreciate it because you’ve written 20 new songs, and those are the ones that you can’t wait to hear. And so we’ll have to figure that return on investment out down the road, but we’ll figure it out for sure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

Missing your financial plan in the middle of a financing. And as frustrating as it may be to hear, it’s a fair reason in many cases not to proceed with a venture financing. The real goal here is to push up the effective price by having the VCs “pay” for an increase to the pool after the financing closes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. This was in 1997, and I spent two years. He and I went to MIT together.

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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. This is not new. They might have focused on different areas, but applying the scientific method to marketing is not new.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. It’s about negotiation, presentation skills, leadership styles, corporate finance. Casey: Oh wow.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Everyone here I think actually has a different background that they bring to the table, whether it’s a programmer, whether it’s in finance, whether it’s in law. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

The thought was, if I’m in New York, my client’s in Chicago, LA? I am a New Jersey-ian by birth. I’ve spent most of my life in the North East, working and living in New York or New Jersey. ” and then from, “Can I invest?” It’s not really a gift. Brendan Kamm: Sure.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

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. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? ” Or, “Every lamb chop came from New Zealand?”

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