User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. If you’re interested in learning more about Marty, including his background and top blog and podcast recommendations, continue reading ahead. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world.

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Generative AI 92

GetUplift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I don’t know about you but every time we hit publish on an article for our blog, our hearts skip a beat. . It’s highly unlikely that a website visitor will instantly convert after reading one blog post. . There are also two other factors that determine whether you’ll get conversions from a blog post or not: Customer research.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

The session that I’m talking about is basically about the board dynamic and about how to survive this valley of death and bring not just yourself and your team but your extended team, including your board, across that until you cross the $1 million mark, and then the $10 million mark and keep going beyond. There we go.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

The 9 Disciplines of Great SaaS Companies remains one of the most popular posts on marketing on this blog. Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. sales enablement: how strong are the materials sales teams use to pitch? Comms Marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 292

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2024

Then, you’ll have enough folks and experience to put a small team on a new initiative / segment / market. Micromanaging Your First (and Second) Management Team. Bad operational model / misunderstanding the burn rate. It’s one thing to invest in an area where only 5% of your business is today. The “I Give Up” VP Hire.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Unfortunately, things only get more difficult when it comes to running the whole business as a Shopify app developer. This article will cover 10 business tips for improving your Shopify app’s development, marketing, and sales. 10 business tips for Shopify app developers 1. The Shopify QA team are your friends 6.

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Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development 98

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Do a lot more Business Development and Partnerships. Underperformers found it harder to hide after Covid, and many have already left or moved on. Respectfully move on from any other underperformers by year-end. Those of us who have been around for a while know what happens when office space goes from plentiful to nonexistent.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Travel Cloud 323

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

So with that, let’s dive into what’s new at WordPress: Is Blogging on the Decline? Matt shares that blogging did decline for a while, and it does seem to be all over social how folks are quitting blogging or vlogging these days. What people love about a blog is a person’s voice and their story.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 279

Totango

MAY 2, 2022

To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not thinking of customer success as a team sport. . Operationalizing Your Teams is Essential. The Customer Journey is Collaborative .

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Finance Enterprise 105

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog. Our Top recommendations: Customer Success: How to Quantify the Impact of Bad-fit Customers. Intercom Blog. Intercom has an amazing blog that is dedicated to customer success.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process. It’s about enabling the people on your team to be more productive and efficient. Lesson 6: Pivoting isn’t a bad thing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having a functioning product team will make that balance just a tad easier. . Sometimes as business owners and teams we make assumptions. A huge problem most teams face is homogeny. The curve can die off, and if you don’t know when to let go, it can be bad. . It’s easy to forget that you aren’t the customer.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Branding Investment 215

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Dos and pot. Don’ts.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

Hull

MARCH 2, 2020

A 2019 study by Forrester and Marketing Evolution found that 21% of marketing budgets were wasted as a result of bad data. According to the study, other ways marketing teams were impacted by bad data include inaccurate targeting, loss of customers, reduced productivity, poor customer experience, and inaccurate marketing performance.

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Underperforming Technical Team B2B Data Strategy 59

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

The highs and lows always come, usually involving the people on your team. For Erica, the bad days are when they’re not executing or achieving growth the way they want. But you don’t carry any numbers, so your success is predicated on your team’s success. Each of these CROs describes what their worst day is.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team SMB Finance 243

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 202

Totango

DECEMBER 23, 2021

To help you and your team combat this dangerous phenomenon, we’re going to do a series of articles over the next few weeks discussing various burnout and mental health topics. Decreased productivity, a high turnover rate, low engagement, and employees with poor mental and physical health all lead to heavy financial burdens for companies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scale Leadership 98

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

Most often, you get a call from a function called corporate development. It’s not a bad relationship to have, but understand that they’re deal executors, not deal creators. If the offer is below your number, it’s bad news for somebody. Harry’s legal team says there’s a 50% close rate, but he guesses it’s even lower than that.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Development Team Review Technical Review 164

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? Because to scale, you are going to need to add a true management team, and then a second one, and then layers of management. The fewer weak hires they continue to make. The less they slow down feature development.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2023

If a VP of Sales has a $500k+ OTE and a big team to manage, does it even make senses to sell courses on the side? Owning an airbnb, doing a podcast, coaching a team, volunteering or trading cards – that’s a hobby and a side-hustle and very much encouraged). Same holds true for developers.”

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 283

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster. What’s the data model?

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Generative AI AWS AI Artificial Intelligence 253

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Learn about your investors previous bad investments (this could determine your fate!). #2 Causes: Weak previous relationship. 5 Slow product development. Bad co-founder relationships. Discouraged or disengaged engineering team. How to prevent this: Have a product development cycle. 2 Investor = Boss.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Engineering Retention 177

Kellblog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Two important notes: There is an optional fourth part, sales development , i.e., managing the team of sales development reps (SDRs) who convert MQLs into stage-1 oppties. Whether this team should report into sales or marketing is a separate debate. The lines between these parts are not black and white.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing Startup 145

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2020

What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. A bit more here: Corporate Blogs Always Work.

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Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing Innovation Investment 168

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. A bad one can torpedo you.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2021

Don’t skip too many steps of development. But when I see folks skip 2+ stages of development, I’ve almost never seen that work out. A great boss will find ways to backfill your weaknesses, get you trained one way or another, get you into the right role with the right leads. From 60 days as an SDR straight to a quota-carrying AE.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Branding Pricing 341

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. These are bad ideas. This is where the cloud meets. Allen Gannett: Okay.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 91

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. "  B2B brands can follow Dock’s lead by reaching out to their customers and internal teams to find experts who might want to showcase their points of view.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

Sometimes it’s VP Sales (OK, often, this is the most common mishire — another post here on what a really great VPS can do for you, and how a poor one can wreck your company, coming). The #1 reason to do a start-up is Career Development. It’s one of our enduring topics on SaaStr. Sometimes it’s VP Marketing.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. If you don’t work to keep your knowledge of the market fresh and current, you may be left with a narrow view that will inevitably catch your sales and product teams flat-footed. Verify product-user fit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 243

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

You could watch it on YouTube or search on SaaStr on the blog about how ClickUp leveraged it. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Dos and pot. Don’ts.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Idea creation : Use ChatGPT to generate new feature ideas , campaigns, blog post topics, product differentiation ideas, and more. You can also use it to craft engaging blog posts, write simplified product documentation, etc.

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