Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team. Asad joined in 2014 as an account executive. Asad Zaman : We specialize in helping companies build their go-to-market teams. If you do something professionally and you’re patient, you’ll develop expertise. Learn more at joinpavilion.com.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2022

E-A-T first showed up in Google’s Search Quality Guidelines in 2014 and has progressively become one of the most important aspects of SEO. For example, a medical site giving out bad health advice may result in severe health consequences for users who follow the information. Refresh your content : Content can get outdated fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

And: “Our team has been A/B testing a statistically significant sample of subject lines and now we not only know which is the best, but we can tell you why…”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sales Development leaders of the future will be called “Sales Scientists” – you heard it here first. Think back to about 2014.

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Technical Review Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 68

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 211

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business. They include: Innovators.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). Team expertise. The number of new services AWS developed around data security covers most of our needs in the container/Kubernetes space. Our current stack and tooling.

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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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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 268

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. At MIT’s 2014 CIO Symposium, ThomasNet President Mark Holst-Knudsen said his greatest business/technology failure was building software when they could have bought it. 52% of projects were challenged, and 19% failed.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. This is 2014 classified right in there you, you in did you pick up consulting clients?

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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.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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Mobile Retention Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team 62

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Kevin is recognized as a Google Developers Expert and G Suite Top Contributor. . Reddit’s recent password breach is a textbook example of why (as Ars Technica put it) “ phone-based 2FA is that bad.” It is my job to select, develop, and implement technology that protects users 100%.

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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. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M in 2014 - 60% of which came from Collaborative Fund. The company even took $2.5M

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Baremetrics

APRIL 3, 2019

My co-founder, Wyatt Jozwowski, and I started Demio in 2014 when we realized there was a strong need for webinar software that actually worked for marketing. They’re looking for the real stories behind the numbers: the good, the bad, and the painful to revisit. We were using webinars to sell our own product.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. What are the core metrics founders should measure to determine the effectiveness of their reps and sales teams? Pete is also the author of Founding Sales, the canonical writing on early-stage startup sales.

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Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 215

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? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

Baremetrics

APRIL 3, 2019

My co-founder, Wyatt Jozwowski, and I started Demio in 2014 when we realized there was a strong need for webinar software that actually worked for marketing. They’re looking for the real stories behind the numbers: the good, the bad, and the painful to revisit. We were using webinars to sell our own product.

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Engagement Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing Growth Hacking 40

GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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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. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Business Consultancy.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

business leaders done by Gallup in 2014 clearly came with the result that “happy employees are the key to happy customers”. A happy employee attracts and keeps customers happy, while unsatisfied employees may work as a repulsive magnet sending customers away to the competitors with their bad customer services.

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Scale 11

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. Short on time? What makes a habit?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s delve into the key benefits of concept tests: Build Lasting Customer Relationships : When you actively involve your customers in the development phase, it’s not just about getting feedback. Then, respondents answer the same follow-up questions, granting you deeper insights into each idea’s strengths and weaknesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Jackson (@StartupLJackson) May 17, 2014. The final step of your plan should be to develop additional emails that drive deeper engagement and retention from your most valuable prospects and customers. When our sales team added personalized videos to their emails, replies increased by 52%. As of right now, there are about 3.8

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Software Review 150

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. In 2014, I sold a majority to Silver Lake Sumeru and Iconiq. Some needed talent development. laughs] Old

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 129

Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

This soft launch already showed me that the demand for this second product was much stronger than the first one: This table shows our customer development until reaching $1,000 MRR. It is no coincidence that I first learned about Baremetrics because Buffer used them to make their revenue public in 2014.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

One of the main reasons why most landing pages and sales pages are not converting leads into customers is a weak call to action with no sense of urgency. Developing a sense of urgency versus being pushy is a fine line. In 2014, Andrew Sobel listed 6 rules for evoking curiosity. Not all call to action messages are created equal.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Sales Hiring Telecommunications 145

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : And, you’ve done that with a number of your executive team, and, in fact, most of your executive team are the ones that you hired early on in the day. Mallun Yen : Well, I think one interesting thing that you have instilled on your team though, and this is something that you do yourself right?

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Sales Hiring Scale CTO Hire Marketing 136

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. And I think that depends on, first and foremost, that you’ve got a healthy sales team, with healthy sales leadership, and a healthy sales process.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 275

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. A scatter plot shows the correlation between numeric variables – whether that correlation is linear or non-linear, strong or weak, positive or negative. Analyzing team performances. A linear scatter plot.

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