User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. This is a great way to see high NRR presented. CEO and co-founder Bill Magnuson was CTO until 2017, then took over as CEO from a co-founder, and owns 4.5%.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director. After all, a CTO can’t handhold the entire deal cycle, but they can jump in and provide clarity and an expert voice at critical points. Solution review. Have an action plan.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Knowing that CFO transformation is one of my favorite subjects (having run a planning company for six years) the folks at Sage invited me to moderate a set of panels at their San Francisco and New York media events this week. Sage CTO Aaron Harris even helped out with a few questions after giving his presentation that helped tee-up the panel.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. He did a great presentation on how to set sales goals for his team and someone who’s been CRO of Brex from, I think maybe he was the tenth employee. He made a little bit of money.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When the company was first founded, two of its co-founders, Wade and CTO Bryan were freelancing on web projects and soon noticed a pattern around their clients who were asking for more and more integrations built from one app to another This is where the idea for Zapier was born. The rest is history.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Presenting: the first pre-built suite of universal SaaS capabilities, enabling SaaS teams to focus on core features, shorten time-to-market and drive user adoption. Frontegg provides a set of pre-built, essential SaaS product capabilities that easily integrate within any new or existing SaaS application.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Above all else, Klaus’ support team wants their customers to know that they’re present, they’re working on finding a solution to their problem, and that they’re listening intently to their needs and adapting to meet them. Everybody does support.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

He likes to optimize and accelerate software development by presenting complex concepts in a simple way. In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. Ali is also the co-host of the Ladybug Podcast , with new episodes every Monday. #19

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3. Do founders make good CEO’s?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 17, 2020

Mixmax isn’t the only company that tries to talk new employees out of staying. Zappos famously pays new employees to leave after the first month. You’re going to want this new executive to be around for a long time—hiring mistakes are costly. “Learning” is the new “expertise.”

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. Here it is, wrapping up both aspects of Moxie’s contribution to Murder at the End of the World: So I was right about the technical advisor thing; hacking is a significant part of Murder’s story, and it was accurately presented throughout the series.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. About Tom… Tom Bogan is number seventeen on our list with highest marks in attendee interest in both the session but Tom as a presenter. Keep your eyes peeled as we unveil the list and a bit more about your favorite leaders.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

Announcing new features, increasing customer satisfaction and retention are among the top functions of an online community. . #1 Our community is the best way for us to inform our customers about upcoming updates and new features. For example, before releasing/starting to develop a new feature, we run it by our community first.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Here are 10 lessons we extracted from them. Sebastian Lambert, picked this key lesson from Kieran Flanagan.

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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. The “ease of use” design elements present in nearly all SaaS and cloud platforms have given all of your co-workers the ability to set up and use these services without in-depth technology training.

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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. This year’s theme was “The Marketing Revolution” in response to the fact that marketing has changed. Speechless.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Many of the conversations were so similar that we came to the conclusion that presenting our conclusions here will give you greater insight into industry-wide challenges. Below are the top four key quality assurance areas that every CIO & CTO (and equivalents) are concentrating on over the short to medium term: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead pitches to cross-sell and upsell new channels and features that meet client needs to achieve client KPIs. Understand and communicate relevant new products, features, and capabilities that support clients objectives and ensure successful deployment and activation. Present and review quarterly / monthly meetings.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. The net result is that the new choke-point is series A (prediction 9). baldness cures [5]).

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

You can start with the usual channels for knowledge transfer - ops manuals, mastermind sessions, lunch presentations, etc. After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. By presenting customers with content they’re more likely to watch first, Netflix reduces churn. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

You can start with the usual channels for knowledge transfer - ops manuals, mastermind sessions, lunch presentations, etc. After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

And the same customer challenges that we were being presented, which was: How do you scale? And what challenge that presented to us was how do we do that quickly. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. Who are the new developers?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 5, 2023

New Mac Pro: I was very amused when, as Apple talked about this beast having 7 PCIe slots and mentioned what you’d use them for, they skipped one little item … GPUs. Sloppy Apple Keynote Observations Part 1: Everything Except Keynote video: Apple blew out the audio levels on interstitial music. Very off brand. Screw you Elmo.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. .” Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. How should the success of marketing be measured?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. And we were acting as the CTO of Gap and whatever, another title.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005.

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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. When that opportunity presents itself, jump at it and go.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? How can startups clearly and articulately present their plans for security, compliance and change management? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

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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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2020

Have Your Team Present More, and You Less. Your investors and others will learn a lot more hearing about sales from your VP of Sales, your CTO co-founder … and not you. Instead, backfill them and help them present the best that they can. But there are 1,000+ new firms since 2016 alone. More on that here.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

At this year’s SaaStr Europa, Jason Lemkin, CEO and Founder of SaaStr, took the stage to answer the audience’s most pressing questions about the present and future of startups. It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. Q: What Do You Think About Specialization In This New Era Of Efficiency?

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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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