Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Part 2: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – Payroll with Gusto and QuickBooks Part 3: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – QuickBooks Bank Rules Part 4: How to Choose SaaS Billing Software This post – Part 1 – focuses on how to categorize your SaaS expenses properly by using QuickBooks or Xero, and what are the benefits of doing so.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. 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. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

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. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. A SaaStr Classic!! million in 2014.).

Part-Time VPE 209

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 209

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. 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. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

In the good sense, like go and build the kind of organization and process that made them successful in the past, but you need to hire that kind of person when you’re willing to make a big investment and a big change in that area. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO. We should have done it earlier.

Sales Hiring 252

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 252

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Not work, work, work” I went to the Boston Consulting Group for a few years and then I went to business school at Stanford for a few years.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. We’ve been around for 20 plus years, raised over 18 billion dollars and counting and our focus is broadly software which we define mainly as B2B and enterprise software with some B2C thrown in. So they bought a company called Learncore.

Outsourcing Services 106

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Technical Review 106

Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Let me be very clear—this is not an argument for consulting or the so-called gig economy and I’m not arguing against the need for full-time employees—if you’re hiring a COO, for example, you’re probably going to need that person full-time. Consider the alternative of hiring a Junior Software Developer at a salary of $80,000 per year.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Sales Hiring B2B New CTO 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The first sponsor is Sapper Consulting. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. And is it worse in software? Before we get there, we have two sponsors. Sales enablement is easy. Why is that?

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And many CEOs simply fail to understand the nuances of the role and the future building benefits of marketing investments made in areas like “brand” where the return on investment is not immediately recognizable on the balance sheet. The process of building trust in a consulting capacity really focuses on the sales process.

Sales Hiring 50

Sales Hiring CTO Coach CTO Hire Underperforming Technical Team 50

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth. This vision was not aligned with his investors, or his Co-founder and CTO, both of whom would leave the company.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

We also invested around those field account executives, more technical sales, pre-sales and eventually, customer success and post sales. I took on Oracle’s first software as a service product 13 years ago and took that to market very early for Oracle Corporation. I’ll start with some of the easy ones on the sales side.

Scale 167

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 167

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. They were building time and expense software. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 162

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. I think the third thing is really about the level of investment that you want to be able to make and how you measure that.

CTO Hire 132

CTO Hire compliance Scale Startup 132

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. I would say that’s number one for me personally, which means I may never work full time again, but finding a founder that you want to go invest four to five years of your life with and for because it really is.

Sales Hiring 151

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 151

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? So they kind of got that wrong, right?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 188

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

What we are seeing is that often there are companies with 2 co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and marketing is often left behind. Another alternative is getting a consultancy on board as they will have the experience to advise you on the most pressing matters, but it will be slightly more costly.

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Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Apple’s bag is mixed , with strength in ML-enabled silicon but weakness on AI software, particularly Siri’s grave limitations and snails-pace evolution. For example, I recently talked with the CEO of a biotech investment fund. The fact they can do even a fraction of the things they can do is, quite frankly, unbelievable.

Artificial Intelligence 8

Artificial Intelligence CTO Hire ChatGPT AI Search 8

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. And we make sure that you use the software that you review and that you are legit.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software as a service or SaaS has been growing as a leading software distribution model. The world of SaaS has simplified software creation and distribution making access easier than before. Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software.

VP of Engineering 10

VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10