Casey Accidental

MARCH 29, 2022

Non-sexy things include general user experience improvements, performance, developer velocity, infrastructure, technical debt, and, fortunately less than it used to be, growth. Let’s visualize this by borrowing a graphic from my product/market fit essay. That is not the target for product/market fit.

Investment 139

Investment Underperforming Technical Team User Experience Scale 139

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Bootstrapping vs VC, debt vs equity, profitability vs hyper-growth, sustainability vs substantial exits, the list goes on. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

My goal is that every time we reach out to a customer of one of our clients that they feel like it’s a really personalized, individual engagement versus like some spamy email. Most businesses don’t have a great way to make it easy for customers to choose them. Hey, everybody. My name’s Eric Rea. So we decided to start.

Scale 114

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Scaling 114

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In the past 12 months on Inside Intercom, we’ve published nearly 200 blog posts covering everything from product launches to product strategy ; from growth stories to goal setting ; from building teams to bot skills ; from sales insights to stand-up comedy. Thanks so much for reading and listening throughout the year.

Scale 30

Scale Onboarding Scaling Content Marketing 30

Brian Balfour

JANUARY 11, 2018

In a recent essay , Casey Winters, formerly Growth at Pinterest, says: “The search for one key metric for a complex ecosystem like Pinterest over-simplifies how the ecosystem works and prevents anyone from focusing on understanding the different elements of that ecosystem. Total time spent is the result of a set of actions.

Metrics 105

Metrics Scale Retention Engagement 105

Unbounce

JULY 2, 2019

While growth is excellent news, it also means that your competition is getting stronger. And this, in turn, enables you to learn more about your customers (about, for instance, any problems and issues they might be facing or goals they’re looking to achieve). This is where your goal and their need should ideally meet.

Scale 111

Scale Marketing SaaS Sales Funnel 111

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Infrastructure might be underrated, but it’s actually essential for any economic growth. But that was quite different for Stripe, because it started as a set of API’s, basically. Romain Huet : Yeah, we started as a set of API’s. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Romain Huet : Good afternoon everyone.

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120