Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

And we’ll have a ton more Braindates and Workshops still to come last minute to sign-up for!

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2019, I launched ThinkFractional.blog and took advantage of the opportunity to learn a new platform – Ghost. I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

JFrog is the pioneer of Continuous Software Release Management, or CSRM. Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. Finally, I had a Zoom interview with JFrog’s Yoav Landman, who is the co-founder and CTO, and Jacob Shulman, who is the CFO.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. Keep on reading to learn about his journey into product management , his recommended newsletters and podcast episodes, and his top tips for product management success.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Regulatory agencies frequently update guidelines and introduce new requirements to address emerging risks and changing industry dynamics. Technological Advancements The rapid pace of technological advancements introduces both opportunities and challenges for healthcare organizations in terms of regulatory compliance.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. Her superpower is product management, helping teams outperform by organizing work in the right way and with the right processes. Fast forward, in the late 90s, she rejected a Ph.D. The reason? Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins? Start by creating a new account from clicking the button New on the top-right. For example, if you know your advertising spend is $20,000 a month and it results in 200 new customers, your CAC is $100. Let’s start with Payroll – Support. And remember.

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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. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. But what if the manager role is not for you?

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Besides his ProductLed portal, Wes is arranging the Product-Led Summit and managing the Product-Led Podcast , both popular ventures today. Growth Product Manager at Hubspot. Entrepreneur and Managing Director at ProductLed. He’s currently managing ProductLed, an industry-leading portal for all things PLG.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

They have been written by salespeople, CTOs, speechwriters, consultants and magnates. Unlike most business stories which are penned from the point of view of the CEO, this one is written by the CTO/founder, David Hitz. Like Peter Drucker, Peter Senge is another extraordinary management thinker. and building a startup.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Just as hiring remote employees has opened the door for smart companies to dramatically open up the talent pool they can pull from, I think hiring managers will soon come around to the notion that not every employee needs to be hired in a full-time capacity. People generally don’t want to be freelancers for the sake of being a freelancer.

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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. Riedel summarizes: “We will be extending the power of AI to all aspects of loyalty program management with our next generation SaaS platform.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Remove infrastructure bottlenecks: you do this by ensuring that your infrastructure configuration and management doesn't become a bottleneck to developer productivity. 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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? So I was doing environmental consulting. Sam Taylor: On my first leadership role, I was the first enterprise sales rep, a manager of mid-market team. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. I worked in solar.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO NEW COMPANIES PLOT THEIR COURSE. Further Reading We Spent $3.3M

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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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

Before we rush ahead with the points to be taken care of, it is important to understand what exactly C-Suite is, how you can position yourself for specific roles effectively, and how you can build your career in executive management as a customer success leader in an organization. Through proper exposure and honing your management skills.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? How can startups clearly and articulately present their plans for security, compliance and change management? And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. 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. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. Brad Feld is an active investor in the leading technology and software space. He is the managing director at Foundry Group, and his insights on technology startups are useful. You can follow him for SaaS insights. Liz Herbert.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. 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. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. 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. That goes to the hiring manager.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” Steven Forth, CEO of Ibbaka, shares wisdom on managing pricing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example.

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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. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

As an engineer, UX designer, product manager and startup advisor for more than 20 years, Laura been part of every type of team – from those that have to deliver on the sometimes unrealistic expectations of upper-management to the ones that suffer from too many opinions on the ground floor. Laura: Exactly. It’s going to be great.”

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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. So it could be something like you know you pay out the existing investors or business, but you have the founders or the management team of the target roll equity to combine entity.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. Because he was somebody that managed and led teams sort of with a me first attitude, right? Maybe you have somebody, a manager that could be a director, a director that could be a head of. New category. So do nothing.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years.

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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. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. This is not new. So what is new?

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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. Simmone welcome to the show. Simmone Taitt : Thanks so much, Sam.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Whether they started out as SDRs, marketers, engineers or even lawyers, their winding paths ultimately brought them to RevOps where they can solve new and challenging problems. In fact, she says that you will probably be thrown new software tools every three months in a RevOps job. Ask him about how to start a Salesforce consultancy.).

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

This all relates to a core Kellblog theme of ownership — who owns what — that I’ve explored in some of my most popular posts: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP , which touches on the real differences between people operating at different levels. It’s not the board’s company to run and the board is not my manager.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. Angus Davis: Mike was the VP of Technology, and my job was to build prototypes of next generation products that our group was dreaming up.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Co-founder Marketing Consultant Full-time Head of Marketing Here’s an overview of how the trust building process has differed in each capacity. Marketing Consultant As a marketing consultant , I’ve played roles ranging from strategic advisor to independent contributor to interim head of marketing.

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