Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions. Alexa+ sure looks like it brings to the smart home device the level of real-time intelligence and interactivity that OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode delivers in their mobile app.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. Many product teams know this feeling: mobile user retention is dropping, even after big updates and splashy feature releases. Why is your mobile app user retention declining? A 30% retention rate after 30 days is considered solid for most mobile apps.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2023

We’re kicking off a new series on SaaStr on what top SaaS and Cloud leaders (CROs, CMOs, and CTOs) use in their tech stack. First up is Miguel Carranza, CTO of RevenueCat. It’s the nature of mobile. It’s the nature of mobile. What’s the number one top new app you’ve added the past year?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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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. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. It Takes Time To Bounce Back Jason was the first investor in RevenueCat , a company that automates mobile subscriptions on your phone. 30% of all mobile apps with a paid subscription use RevenueCat to manage it. UiPath saw a huge drop of 30%.

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Outseta

MARCH 21, 2018

Team: Co-founders Andy Taylor (CEO) and Navtej Sadhal (CTO). eLandlord - eLandlord is a Boston based company developing a mobile platform to help landlords and homeowners save time and money in repairs, while also taking a more proactive approach to preventative maintenance. Team: Founder & CEO Charles Hadsell. dwel.co - dwel.co

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? Social media, mobile apps, in-app ads, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and more have promised to help us put experience at the forefront. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Because, on the one hand it’s exciting, and what I see a lot today is founders often bond with a new partner. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Table of Contents. is the third and most advanced generation of the Internet.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. The iPhone was an amazing step forward, not because it brought forth a faster CPU or a better digital network.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here. Frontegg will be a sponsor of LeadDev 2023 New York. Exclusive talks, panel discussions, and networking sessions – participants will get a chance to exchange ideas and develop new opportunities.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Scytale

MAY 30, 2025

But with new risks popping up and becoming more advanced , keeping up with the latest data security developments has become non-negotiable to ensure ongoing compliance. Staying alert to personalized phishing attacks Phishing scams are hardly a new phenomenon. Thats one unfortunate trend that should keep every CTO on their toes.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. At that time, Marc Andreessen, the founder was the CTO of the company and there were only three of us in the group.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Instead, we now pay a finite, fixed fee for mobile service. Like in the mobile phone analogy, our subscription model gave us a way to offer our clients – big and small – an efficient platform and access to a marketplace for one, simple, predictable fee. It’s a classic supply and demand question. No unexpected costs.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Have they done something unique before? Enlist the co-founders (06:34).

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Simply put, you conduct customer discovery interviews before launching a new product, or whenever you want to discover potential customers. After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He focuses on cloud, mobility, SaaS, and marketing automation. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Hiten has a weekly SaaS newsletter that helps readers know new strategies, learn techniques, etc. He also featured in The New York Times and CB Insights. David Skok. Seth Godin.

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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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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It can even be an independent portal, a social media community or a mobile app. In an emerging industry, if your customer success team is a relatively new addition within a business, there is an enormous amount of grafting to be done to prove your team’s worth with the company.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc. Just to name a few.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. Mobile matters, big time @chezlars @colderoshay #CTAconf pic.twitter.com/K5VYIyLKL7. Speechless. But fear not!

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. In a new one, it was tough to keep up. Ross : Yeah.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Brendan Schwartz , Co-Founder and CTO over at Wistia, has spent a lot of time learning to trust his instincts.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

The new server will be open to those with paid Medium accounts. I’m pro-EV but so happy I didn’t buy a Musk-mobile.) I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame. I focused on the first sentences, not the later caveat, and my reaction was strong and immediate: HERESY!

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact, according to Paul Collins’ 2008 New York Times article The Oddball Know-It-All , Herter’s catalog printer Brown Printing, also located in Waseca, MN, grew with Herter’s to become “one of the country’s largest commercial printers.”

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. How many new people signed up for our service or product in the last 90 days?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. How many new people signed up for our service or product in the last 90 days?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

Braze was early to taking a next-generation approach to marketing automation software, focused on being mobile and messaging first. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. And it has been. 60% Gross Margins.

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