OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. We’ve seen both evolutions of the Chief Performance Officer.

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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.

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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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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.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 12, 2022

Earlier, in the case of most organizations, the C-suite had three key titles – the CEO – chief executive officer, the COO – chief operating officer , and the CFO – chief finance officer. All thanks to the new people and newer titles emerging in the C-Suite. In this blog, we will discuss the new C-suite titles.

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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. Q: Based on your acquisition experience, are for-sale businesses focusing on the customer and NPS?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I’ve had roles in almost every function from sales to product to customer success. For the first four years, we didn’t even need to build a professional sales organization. This approach meant that the HR buyer only had to go to the group holding the purse strings—the board, finance, CTO, VP of Engineering, etc.

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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. How do they solve that problem today? Be realistic about this. baldness cures [5]).

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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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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. His posts shed light on SaaS finance and calculations. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. Asia Orangio. Brian Halligan. Dharmesh Shah.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This is where a CCO can help the finance department maintain these records. He/she can align different departments like the product, sales, marketing, and finance with customer success. Each and every sector of the organization, like the product, marketing, sales, and finance, needs to be focused on the customer journey.

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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. Let’s say you want to open that Apac sales location, acquiring something earlier stage might be a good way of getting there. The third one would be sales motion.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Working in sales is tough.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you missed episode 130, check it out here: Turning Junior-level Talent into Top Sales Professionals with Eddie Baez. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sales enablement is easy. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Sales enablement is easy: all you have to do is create perfectly targeted content, stay informed on email best practices, drive more engagement quarter over quarter, spend less money, and do all of this with less time. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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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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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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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. Most of the time, in my experience, VCs run in advice/support mode, but if a company starts to have continual performance problems, is considering a new financing, or evaluating potential exit opportunities (e.g.,

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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. It shared the repeatable process to operationalize sales, particularly sales development. It made sense then.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam Jacobs: Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Listen to Hang Black’s podcasts to learn about the future of sales enablement or how to lead with empathy. RevOps leaders are talking about trends in the market, and how the move towards RevOps will change everything from marketing to sales development to post sales. Fixing visibility issues in your sales org.

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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 I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales. And I think most of your teams, you need sales engineers, you need founders.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Karl has been in every interview for every new hire for the first 6 years of the business, why? He had worked as a CTO at a startup when he dropped out of school. They’ve raised about $6 million in financing and they found this person who is incredibly talented generally, but they didn’t need a role specifically.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

It’s the underpinning of your go-to-market strategy and impacts everything from marketing to sales, to customer success and the product itself. My really crude definition : When I come across a new product I tend think "Wtf is this? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology? Create a new category.

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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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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

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. ” You see Casey, we’re all in sales. Casey: We’re all in sales! 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. Then we needed to hire a sales guy who had experience selling to enterprise. We got the guy who ran enterprise sales at Rackspace. That’s it.”

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Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Brendan Kamm , Co-Founder and CEO at Thnks. If you missed episode 118, check it out here: PODCAST 118: Building a Crisis-Proof Sales Culture to Weather Any Storm with Ernest Owusu. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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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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