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Why 2019 Is The Year Of Growth Engineering In SaaS

Hull

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. But there's an urgent need for technical resources within growth teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Casey Winters Growth Advisor at Greylock.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So if you got your first VP of Sales wrong and you want to pull the rip cord after three months, and that’s certainly something that I’ve advised. That’s something that Jason advises. Yeah, go ahead.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. How does Yousuf advise founders on quality or quantity of logos in the early days? * How does Yousuf advise CEOs approach CIOs when it comes to discounting? How does Yousuf advise founders approach CIOs when it comes to multi-year deals? It’s that simple.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

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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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

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? I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. Have they done something unique before?