Posts by Emily Byford
The importance of revenue operations with Krish Subramanian, Chargebee
Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO of Chargebee, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Krish talks about revenue operations, and the importance of the operations function for scaling SaaS businesses. He also shares how his role as CEO has changed as the company has scaled – from what he’s learned about hiring and…
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SaaS Marketing: a guide to marketing your SaaS business
This post is an excerpt from SaaS Marketing: A guide to marketing your SaaS business. Read on, or click here to download the full guide. For growing SaaS companies, marketing is one of the most important ingredients fuelling your growth. Every company needs customers. And no matter how good your product is, you won’t get…
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SaaStock LatAm: Bringing 600 SaaS leaders together for 3 days, 60 hours of content, countless opportunities
Latin America’s most actionable conference for B2B SaaS founders, executives, and investors is back. We’re excited to announce that SaaStock LatAm 20 is returning to Sao Paulo on May 11th-13th 2020. We’ll bring 600+ SaaS founders, executives, and investors together for three days of intensive knowledge and networking, all in the name of traction, growth,…
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How to Make Your First Technical Hire (If You’re A Non-Technical CEO)
This is a guest post by Richard Howard, AWS Startup Business Development. AWS Startups were one of the sponsors at SaaStock 2019. This article was originally published on the AWS Startups Blog. Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash When I founded my startup in 2014, I was the very definition of a non-technical CEO.…
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Lessons from bootstrapping to $25m ARR with David Darmanin, Hotjar
David Darmanin, founder and CEO of Hotjar, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Hotjar has 100+ team members across 20+ countries. David shares his learnings from scaling a fully-remote, bootstrapped company to $25m ARR, from navigating burnout to understanding the changing role of the CEO as the…
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Top Marketing Sessions from SaaStock 19
SaaStock’s mission is to help SaaS companies to gain traction, grow, and scale. Our conferences bring together the best and brightest minds in SaaS – the leaders who are driving real change within the industry. We pride ourselves on delivering provocative opinions alongside hard metrics, implementable strategies, and actionable content. Marketing is one of the…
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Can software make work feel less like work? with Rahul Vohra, Superhuman
Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. At the time of recording, Superhuman had over 250,000 people on its wait list. The secret of their success? Game design. Rahul talks about how most of us treat emails as ‘work’, but at Superhuman they asked one important…
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The Power of Events for Growing SaaS Startups with Jói Sigurdsson, CrankWheel
Jói Sigurdsson, founder and CEO of CrankWheel, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Events have always been an important customer acquisition channel for CrankWheel, and Jói talks about why other SaaS startups should add events into their sales and marketing strategy. Additionally, CrankWheel was the winner of the Startup Pitch Competition at…
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4 lessons from building my first startup [guest post]
This is a guest post from Lloyd Yip, founder of LWY Consulting. It was originally shared in SaaS Revolutionaries, a curated group for SaaS founders, executives, and investors that connects SaaS leaders on a global scale, fostering opportunities to learn and grow. LWY Consulting helps early-stage SaaS founders scale their solutions from <$5k MRR to…
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The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory with Maddy Cross, Notion Capital
Maddy Cross, Talent Director at Notion Capital, is this week’s guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. She talks about Notion’s recent research report: The Unicorn Hiring Trajectory. This looks into the hiring trends of SaaS unicorns compared with other high-performing (but not unicorn) businesses. When Notion invests in a startup, 80% of that capital goes…
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