by Deborah Findling | May 22, 2020 | Customer Success, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 335: David Spinks is the Founder @ CMX, the premier network for community professionals. In 2019, CMX was acquired by Bevy, where David now serves as the VP of Community. Bevy is a customer-to-customer community management...
by Deborah Findling | May 15, 2020 | Company Culture, Customer Success, Customer Success, Early, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Tidelift has raised over $40M from some of the best in the business including...
by Deborah Findling | May 13, 2020 | Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, SaaStr Events |
SaaStr’s New New in Venture Virtual Summit is coming up on May 27th. This will be a 1 day, 2 track event with over 10,000 attendees. (and it’s FREE to attendees) The top VCs in cloud and SaaS will share what’s really going on in venture capital right...
by Deborah Findling | May 9, 2020 | Blog Posts, Fundraising, SaaStr Events |
SaaStr’s New New in Venture Virtual Summit is coming up May 27th and here’s why you should join. Register now! It’s FREE! We have 250 VCs+ and 1000+ Founder/CEOs looking to connect. We’ll be using a networking tool to help make those...
by Deborah Findling | May 8, 2020 | Customer Success, Leadership, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 331: Jessica Lin is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Work-Bench, one of New York’s leading early-stage enterprise funds with a portfolio including the likes of Cockroach Labs, X.ai, Dialpad, VTS and Catalyst to name a...
by Deborah Findling | May 1, 2020 | Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 329: Navin Chaddha is the Managing Director @ Mayfield who just last month announced $750M in new funds split across their core and select funds. As for Navin, under his leadership Mayfield has raised over $2.2Bn in new funds and he has...
by Deborah Findling | Apr 24, 2020 | Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts |
Ep. 327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. Prior to their IPO, Domo raised funding from the likes of Benchmark, Founders Fund, a16, Greylock and...
by Deborah Findling | Apr 16, 2020 | Company Culture, Customer Success, Leadership, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts |
Ep. 325: Carolyn Guss is VP of Corporate Marketing @ PagerDuty, the company keeping your digital operations running perfectly with their real-time operations platform. Prior to their IPO in April 2019, PagerDuty had raised funding from some...
by Deborah Findling | Apr 10, 2020 | Customer Success, Fundraising, Podcasts, Product |
Ep. 323: Bhavin Shah is the Founder & CEO @ Moveworks, the cloud-based AI platform, purpose-built for large enterprises, that resolves employees’ IT support issues—instantly and automatically. To date Bhavin has raised over $108M...
by Deborah Findling | Apr 3, 2020 | Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts |
Ep. 321: Anthony Kennada is the CMO @ Front, the startup that provides your team with better email so they can treat every customer like your only customer. To date, Front have raised over $138M from some leading names including Sequoia,...
by Deborah Findling | Mar 27, 2020 | Customer Success, Human Resources, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales |
Ep. 319: May Habib is the Founder & CEO @ Qordoba, the platform that helps everyone at your company write with the same style, terminology and voice. To date, May has raised over $21M in funding with Qordoba from the likes of Upfront...
by Deborah Findling | Mar 20, 2020 | Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales |
Ep. 317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. To date they have raised over $58M from some of the best in the business including Index...
by Deborah Findling | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog Posts |
It’s no secret that SaaStr is a small unit, we’re made up of less than 10 full-time employees. Sometimes having a lean team means that many of us temporarily wear several hats (sometimes all at once). We haven’t ever truly had a dedicated social...
by Deborah Findling | Mar 13, 2020 | Customer Success, Early, Fundraising, Podcasts |
Ep. 315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. This month they announced their $6M seed...
by Deborah Findling | Mar 6, 2020 | Company Culture, Customer Success, Early, Marketing, Marketing, Podcasts, Sales, Sales |
Ep. 313: Today we deep dive into what startups can learn from the large SaaS incumbents of today. Sarah Varni: CMO @ Twilio on her biggest takeaways from her time at Salesforce. Erica Schultz: President of Field Operations @...