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4 Lessons For SaaS Startups From Optimizely's Early Days

Tom Tunguz

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Pete was a Google Associate Product Manager for AdSense and launched Google App Engine. The best ways he found to learn leadership skills was to hire a management coach to meet him once per month, to talk through the issues facing him at Optimizely.

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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

Plus, the Product Marketing Alliance drops the Product Marketing Salary Survey. Your top subscription news. That’s what David Apple—customer success and sales guru at Notion— is asking. Product marketers: move west. The Product Marketing Alliance dropped the Product Marketing Salary Survey.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death?

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

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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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

He also founded SaaScribe to help founders, customer success teams , sales executives, marketing professionals, and growth hackers. Asia Orangio is a SaaS expert who helps SaaS companies and start-ups to craft a data driver strategy and implement award-winning marketing strategies to win the audience. Asia Orangio. Chris Orlob.

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Reasons That Make Customer Success a Must to be Represented at C-Suite Level

SmartKarrot

The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. This makes a case for customer success to have a seat at the leadership table. C-Suite executives need to have strong leadership and communication skills.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. 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. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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