Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Start with strong technology co-founders. 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. Low quality product or technology founders. Track retention carefully. No metrics.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Engineering Retention 171

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2018

As the rise of bots and automation continues apace, a lot of people are wondering how the sales process and lead qualification will be affected by this fast-evolving technology. Working as Sales Development Representatives at Intercom, we deal with a huge volume of conversations with potential leads that come in through live chat.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. of sales teams hit their goals. So what if sales leaders could figure out the recipe for their top sellers’ success and then build an entire team of high performers? A technology-driven strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Construction Forecasting 98

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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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.

Scale 177

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User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Can you help me with a list of the top 3 competitors in this space, their value propositions, and their weaknesses?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? Often, product-oriented founders think they’ve created a technology business that seeks distribution when in reality they’ve founded a distribution business that makes technology.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research 221

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills.

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Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 95

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

However, while the results feel like modern day alchemy, we’re still in the very early days of the technology, and it has its challenges. For example, image generation often is slow and clunky to control, resolution can be poor, and it’s been incredibly difficult to add correct text to the images. The release of the latest Ideogram.ai

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Investment Underperforming Technical Team Innovation User Experience 106

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With password authentication, there is always additional stress on IT and support teams. The hackers and the bad guys know this fact very well and have been ‘feasting” on this inherited weakness over the last two decades. Weak passwords are a SaaS vendor’s curse, in both B2B and B2C use cases.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Software Review 98

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? So I think it plays on both dimensions.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

Classic agencies don’t value the software enough to engender pricing power, develop fast sales cycles, or change the operations of their business to maximize the value of the ML innovation. Consequently, product market fit is weak. And they ought to develop that pricing power. In some cases, agencies sell their time.

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AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 191

Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation. The fact that you are still building or continuously enhancing your application does not give you the right to treat your users and customers like a crowd-sourced testing team.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 97

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. The first, I want it to be part of a company with cutting edge technology. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 217

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human. As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

The US has a massive total available market (TAM), which accounts for between 40% and 50% of worldwide technology spending. Much as Paris is a bellwether for the future of fashion, the US market is a bellwether for technology. The US poses numerous, often unique, challenges for a European technology startup. The market is vast.

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Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 118

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. Better interviewing = better sales teams. On a team where 85% of sales reps hit or exceed quota, quota attainment isn’t a differentiating achievement.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Q: Let’s talk technology for a moment.

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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

CISOs face a challenging landscape with emerging technologies, security and privacy compliance, and an increasing number of cyberattacks targeting businesses. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Strong information technology background with a Diploma in Business Computing.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Scytale

DECEMBER 13, 2023

CISOs face a challenging landscape with emerging technologies, security and privacy compliance, and an increasing number of cyberattacks targeting businesses. The CISO coordinates with technical teams to contain breaches and prevent future attacks. Strong information technology background with a Diploma in Business Computing.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team compliance Automotive 52

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

To establish an effective risk management program as a PayFac, you must establish a dedicated risk management team, utilize the right tools and technology, develop proper risk management policies and procedures, conduct regular risk audits, and stay up-to-date with the latest industry regulations.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Sales teams that invest in remote selling and sales intelligence tools will continue to outperform their peers. READ THIS: Selling From Home?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 125

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

InsightSquared

MARCH 26, 2020

They want to develop their career just like every other function. In fact, 60% of reps will leave an organization if their manager is a poor coach. So rather than focus solely on win rates, help identify their strengths and weaknesses, and work with them to improve upon their skills and performance.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Technical Review Sales 62

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform.

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Part-Time CTO CTO CTO Coach CTO Hire 52

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. And it culminates in leveraging that understanding to find and deploy the right technology. Identify your training technology requirements. Today, not much has changed.

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Investment Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 94

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Growth is arguably the most defining and sought-after trait of technology companies. It fluctuates, plateaus, goes up and down with each new round of funding, new competitor, new technological leap – or even a global pandemic or economic downturn. However, growth is seldom linear, as is all too clear in the current economic climate.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. The evolution of customer support. Customers] just want to use the solution.

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Outsourcing Services Investment Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 253

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Technology Will Never Replace Sales Talent.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Social Media 102

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. So what this means is I touch both mergers and acquisitions, and integrated technology partners.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As cross-functional leadership teams across the country clamor to prioritize and agree upon the top threats to address, many underestimate the importance of effective change management. Some changes are seemingly smaller — say, the addition of new required fields for a sales team to complete in converting leads to opportunities.

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Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Management 77

Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sub-merchants are having a poor payments experience Another tell-tale sign of having a sub-optimal payments partner is if your customers (i.e., The last thing you want is for them to churn due to a poor payments experience. Look at your vendors. sub-merchants) are having issues with integrated payments.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 88

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

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Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98