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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

Before starting JFrog, the founders had built a successful IT consulting firm, AlphaCSP, which focused on developing Java solutions. In other words, they got first-hand experience of the pains of software development. There was also a highly efficient inbound sales model.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Kathleen Ting studied at Cornell University before joining the financial service provider BlackRock in New York as Global Consulting Relations Analyst. She is in charge of the full SaaS solution sales cycle. Jessie Lam.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Average salary: $95,566/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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The Hiring Opportunity Most B2B SaaS Companies Are Missing

Outseta

Think of the best CTO-level software developers that you know—do you think your product would progress faster if they were building it 2-3 days per week, or if you hired an average developer in a full-time capacity? Consider the alternative of hiring a Junior Software Developer at a salary of $80,000 per year.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

When engaging with bottoms up sales models, where does Paul identify the tipping points of going from bottoms up to top down? * Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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