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. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…). 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.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Just how much damage is involuntary churn causing?

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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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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

291: Experimental marketing brings together the science and art of marketing, allowing for creativity that drives results. It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role?

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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. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Integrate email marketing (HubSpot). Integrate sales CRM (Salesforce).

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. This was in 1997, and I spent two years. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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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?” ” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

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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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions. Unless you’re going to do something in that regional market at some point. New category. So he’s the CTO?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO. We initially went to market as a consumer business. And that was not a success. Sam Jacobs: Wow.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Not only does your sales team need to bring new customers through the door, but they also need to ensure that what they’re selling matches up exactly with those customers’ expectations. When you sell subscriptions in the B2C market, it’s important to forge strong connections with your customers. Market data. Customer knowledge.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome no brand in market. How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). ? How to overcome no brand in market (01:23). First and foremost, overcoming no brand in market. Second tip here on overcoming know brand in market, expose the buyer’s FOMO. Have they created something new before? This is tough.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. And any odd stuff on the cap table, or existing terms — at least highlight them, and come with a solution. But now we’re back full circle. Too many founder vesting issues.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. The pass one was in marketing, which is what we ended up doing. So this is Dharmesh.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. So HubSpot today is like a 25 or 30, I don't know whatever the market cap is. if I'm going to work on brand, I'm in there with the marketing team reviewing copy and going through the. The pass one was in marketing, which is what we ended up doing. So this is Dharmesh.

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