SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa.

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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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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. However, they are still relatively new and their value can be extremely volatile, making them a high-risk investment for some people. How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project?

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tel Aviv, October 14, 2020 – Frontegg , creators of the first platform for fast-tracking SaaS development and innovation, today announced a $5M Seed round led by Pitango , with backing from i3 Equity and Global Founders Capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features. Without a product that provides unique value to customers, nothing else matters.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Bai took on a number of senior positions – Director of HR and Director of Marketing at Alibaba, as well as Chief Marketing Officer of Jiangsu Ju Teng Network Technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, [ CTO Jamie Tischart ] and I talked about this fork in the road that engineers typically get to where they either move into management or commit to writing code for the rest of their careers. As new products are released, we will be embedding our team earlier into the value chain so we can prevent problems before they occur.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Advanced Growth Strategy.

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BetterCloud

MAY 3, 2021

Last year, BetterCloud’s new CIO Tommy Donnelly said that he wanted to push a lot of transformation across the organization, particularly around security and technology. Several people across the IT and Security functions here at BetterCloud deserve a round of applause for their work on our new ISO 27001 certification.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? What technologies do they use? What size company?

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. A view of new revenue for every R&D dollar invested further reinforced the correlation of R&D investment to growth. . Source: 2022 OPEXEngine BenchmarkEngine™. Financial KPIs.

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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] That’s the exciting thing to me about building a technology.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Innovation – a term that resonates deeply within the halls of tech firms and startup incubators alike. At the core of every technological breakthrough and digital advancement lies a single, unifying element: the relentless pursuit of innovation. Companies must continuously innovate to stay relevant.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies. Geoffrey: A lot of this is about choosing standard, or maybe even “boring” technologies.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. That Stable Diffusion moment is happening again right now, for large language models—the technology behind ChatGPT itself. Hands-on experimentation and prototyping is the top of the new application funnel.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Very rarely, these technologies also let you do things you’d never considered possible. Remember printed memos ?).

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat this and be more agile, SaaS management is morphing and restructuring functional management and multiplying the number of new C-Suite titles like Chief Customer Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Product Officer, not to mention Chief Performance Officer and Chief Security Officer. Chief Product Officer.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What made you want to pursue a career in technology? I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do—I focused on technology, international business, and marketing.

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Frontegg

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite being extremely busy, Ramli is always open to new ideas and collaboration offers. #5 Co-Founder and CTO at Gainsight (Former GVP of Engineering at Marketo). Mickey is passionate about designing, building, and launching innovative products that drive business success. 5 – Keiran Flanagan. 8 – Mickey Alon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. So the conversation is changing.

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BetterCloud

JUNE 4, 2019

Like a kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy, our great IT leader, the CTO, could deploy rules that would govern the perimeter of our castle. But just like castles fell in the 1300s because of the evolution and enhancement of gunpowder, our technology perimeter has fallen with the evolution and enhancement of SaaS and cloud-based services.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Rationalise your tech stack: reign in your teams' propensity to collect the latest and greatest tools and ask them to decide on those components of their technology stack that are absolutely critical to delivering measurable business outcomes. This should be a major consideration when you rationalise your technology stack.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Q: What Do You Think AI Will Do to the Next Generation of Innovators and Disruptors? Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Price increases are where folks go when they don’t know how to innovate,” Jason says. And funds aren’t just coming from new folks, but existing investors with bigger funds. We’ll see,” Jason says.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Rationalise your tech stack: reign in your teams' propensity to collect the latest and greatest tools and ask them to decide on those components of their technology stack that are absolutely critical to delivering measurable business outcomes. It's easy to forget that every new tool adds technical debt that is hard to unwind.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 12, 2022

As businesses and requirements evolved, more titles such as the CMO – chief marketing officer, CTO/CIO – chief technology/information officer, CHRO – chief human resources officer, and CSO – chief sales/business development officer emerged. All thanks to the new people and newer titles emerging in the C-Suite.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Below are the top four key quality assurance areas that every CIO & CTO (and equivalents) are concentrating on over the short to medium term: 1. t" moments the day after a new patch or version is applied throughout your system. You should not accept testing programs that test only the convenient things and result in "oh s!#t"

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

But someone leaked those weights within days of the announcement, and that led to an explosion of innovation among independent researcher-hobbyists. This time, I suppose Meta learned the lesson and preempted the leak. It’s already fairly well known that Apple’s NLP experts from Siri have been reallocated to some secret project.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? 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. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. Alex Turnbull. Dharmesh Shah.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

While some say it is not necessary, some say it brings new perspectives towards AI. They argue that the increasing importance of AI will bring new roles and responsibilities that existing C-suite officers will not be able to do justice with. New research and trends keep on coming every other day. So, it is useless to hire CAIO.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Technology, for a long time, has been incredibly capable. Short on time?

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