SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

She then transitioned to management consulting at YCP Holdings, where she provided financial advisory and strategic consulting. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst. Kathleen Ting. Janet Yuen. Anita Varshney.

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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.

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The SaaS Garage

JULY 12, 2021

A targeted management of these expenses is currently not possible, because external service providers are usually not connected to internal company software. Düsseldorf-based consalio GmbH was founded in 2021 by the three co-founders and managing directors Felicia Mundhenke (CEO), Oliver Schneider (CPO) and Tobias Lehmann (CTO).

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Automate functional testing DevOps without automated software testing is like racing a Ferrari with the handbrake engaged. By sticking to your old software quality habits you are only minimising your ability to achieve all these lofty goals. This functionality set in software delivery tools is not a pipe-dream.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Growth Consultant, SVP Marketing at HubSpot. Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Whether you’re a newbie or an old-timer in the Software-as-aService (SaaS) space, knowledge is power. He’s currently managing ProductLed, an industry-leading portal for all things PLG. 5 – Keiran Flanagan.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

I took on Oracle’s first software as a service product 13 years ago and took that to market very early for Oracle Corporation. ” He said, “But we still have … We have Informix databases,” and he went down this long list of legacy technology that was in his environment.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Economic Growth The technology sector is a significant contributor to economic growth. Companies like Valerian Technology, with a focus on technology consulting and software architect services, play a pivotal role in this ecosystem, driving both innovation and economic prosperity.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. Who is Jeff Winters and what is Sapper Consulting? [02:00]. How Sapper Consulting built REGIE [07:20. We’re on iTunes.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Curious how he felt reflecting on the decision to raise angel money - a decision that ultimately resulted in Wistia needing to take on $17M in debt - I asked Wistia Co-founder and CTO Brendan Schwartz if he’d do anything differently. Further Reading SparkToro Raised A Very Unusual Round Of Funding & We’re Open-Sourcing Our Docs ?.

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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. 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.).

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2021

Dave Kellogg, Principal @ Dave Kellogg Consulting. Brittany Skoda, Global Head of Software Banking @ Morgan Stanley. Christine Spang, Co-Founder and CTO @ Nylas. Dave Walters, CTO @ Hired. Jenn Knight, Co-Founder, CTO @ AgentSync. Brian Peterson, CTO @ Dialpad. Viviana Faga, Investor & Advisor @ Coda.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 24, 2022

Provide consultative assistance. As a CS leader, if you can gain expertise in providing consultative assistance to different departments in the organization, it can position you as an industry expert. If you take the consultant route to the C-Suite, it can open new doors in the career.

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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. As I said, you’ve witnessed, and bought hundreds of different software providers in terms of like the red flags. ” Can I ask?

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Understanding Cloud Computing and Recent Trends Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources, including storage, processing power, and software applications, over the internet. Containers and Kubernetes: Containers have transformed application deployment and management, enabling lightweight and portable software packaging.

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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.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely. The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be.

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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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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?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve got two sponsors, the first is Sapper Consulting. Sapper Consulting makes it easier though, because they built Regie. And I had done that even before I got into B2B software, doing military electronic design, right? Like my CTO, Eric, he’s like, “Dude, I got it all. It’s not that easy.

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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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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.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2021

Allyson is highly certified in Salesforce and attributes her success to a knack for technology and a love of finding and solving 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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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. So he’s the CTO? So I was their first employee in the United States.

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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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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. The fact they can do even a fraction of the things they can do is, quite frankly, unbelievable. Stay up on what’s emerging. I’m still not sure I believe it myself.

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

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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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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Usually, when you start growing and you think you need to deck out a management team, what are the key roles that you want to go with first in a software company like ours, in a SaaS company? If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing.

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