OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 52

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

No one trusts the government. Marketers and sellers. People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. But you’ve always coined this phrase “business to human marketing”, B2H. No one trusts religion.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 107

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. To get that distribution all over the world in different market segments.

Development Team Review 130

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 130

Hull

JULY 9, 2020

Our job is to get data that is created across a number of consumer touch points and may reside in a number of back-end systems, create a unified view of a customer, and protect quality and integrity along the way, and then make it really easy to govern that data as it gets connected out to and from a number of different destination systems.

B2C 52

B2C Underperforming Technical Team B2B Data 52