Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

VP of Engineering 165

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. How were your company’s customer success processes created? Perhaps it was a carefully thought out initiative. Or perhaps not.

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Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

If you look at any SaaS startup, in the first couple reps, they always find one guy or gal that’s just amazing, just killing it. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. Whatever you do, hire two. Who did you hire?

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Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 259

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I struggled with being able to align our sales and marketing teams across New York, LA, London, Delhi all of these different places. And at the end of the day, Vertify is a revenue operations intelligence platform that turns disparate data into intelligent answers for revenue teams specifically. My team is suffering from this problem.

Scale 102

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Travel 102

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? How have the other two of you thought about building out your team?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 262

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

She’s now a consultant helping VPs of Sales scale and build their sales teams. She’s also been a high-performing individual contributor — she was part of the team that drove a lot of growth at HubSpot as it went from small to large, and she worked under Mark Roberge. What You’ll Learn. Who is Mary Rogul.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Sales 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source 16 Startup Metrics by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy, a16z We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. One example I’ll give, one of the best companies out there on this metric was Shopify, which is a company that in around 2011 had about 12 million of ARR.

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 100

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He was also Coordinator and Trainer of startup sales at Gama Academy, the first sales training program for Brazilian startups. He’s been running SaaSholic, a blog where he writes about startups and SaaS.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 120

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason Lemkin: So you have like a great profile irrespective of what your startup’s doing. And so combine all that, the stress, markdowns… Blackbird today announced they’re marking down Canva, which is one of the most iconic startups out there. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 189

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

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Sales Hiring Scale Interviewing Technical Review 173

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And we sold that to Rupert Murdoch in 2011 for about 80 million bucks. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. For me, that was a bad habit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Technology Social Media 223

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

Marketing 217

Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 217

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. And this is 2011.

Subscription 107

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 107

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 199

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? There was a small startup scene. Rob Gonzalez: And so, a lot of people that were doing computer science in Williamstown were thinking about startups back even in the late nineties.

SaaS Payments 258

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 258

Teamgate

JANUARY 14, 2019

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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Interviewing Startup Technical Review Technical Advisors 81

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? Harry Stebbings: We are back for another week in the world of SaaStr, and diving straight in today, I recently tweeted about the importance of a sales playbook, pre-release, scaling out your sales team. What is the right way to structure your sales meeting?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 181

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. It’s almost like theory development, to understand how to look at big data. I constantly see software folks, people building startups, struggling to know where to stop. Why does he want it?

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Scale Underperforming Technical Team 202

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?

Sales Hiring 257

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 257

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2011. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founded : 2011. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

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Scale Banking Technical Review Software Review 118

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

276: Liat Bycel is VP of Customer Engagement @ Airtable, the startup that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power to organise anything. Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 108

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ll tell you some things I learned so far while putting together the Product Design team at Intercom – which is a tricky thing to start. I’ve worked with some of the best design teams around, and let me tell you: the truth is that behind closed doors, every one of them was a shitshow. Our shared delusion. What do I mean by that?

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Scale Technology Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 136