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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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. 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. Subscription content—alive and thriving. Do you like me? There ya have it.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Your top subscription news. It’s the first survey of its kind and the PMA is hoping that with this level of detail in tow, product marketers worldwide will be able to put strategies in place to focus on their personal bottom line, as well as their business’. And that’s a wrap for your December 6 subscription news.

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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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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

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. As much as we would all love unlimited budgets to embrace the perfect security model, we all recognize there is a practical evolution to our own versions of perfection. It was easy once.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? So the conversation is changing.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Know the best strategies to enhance your SaaS career Make use of key insights from leaders, companies, and communities Engineer your SaaS marketing strategy based on their expertise. Many others have adopted his strategies at Box to create scalable products. His strategies and tips in SaaS have helped many users.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Tips on Enterprise Pricing.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These are the people who primarily set the company’s strategy, make high-stakes decisions, and make certain mundane operations aligned with the fulfillment of the company’s strategic goals. Responsible for recurring revenue in SaaS-based economy dealing with renewals and expansion. To oversee all customer-facing departments.

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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. Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Just to name a few. Harry Stebbings: As for Jeff.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

After all, as consumers, we enjoy many subscriptions and services that come with a simple, one-size-fits-all bill. Flat rate pricing is a subscription model that offers users a single price per month or year for all features and all levels of access. Who is using a flat rate pricing strategy? What is flat rate pricing?

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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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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

For one, there was never enough real estate, given we were in San Francisco and Zynga on Pinterest weren’t the only companies with a real estate strategy of being under one roof. How are you and how have you been advising your clients on this hybrid strategy? We’re already in this like a new gen.”

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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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