SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

Similarly, positive ROI statistics for video content have been booming for years – from 33 percent in 2015 to 87 percent in 2021. As time goes on, you’ll develop a stronger understanding of what type of video content works and what doesn’t. Overall, balance storytelling and metrics. The best part?

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Marketing Social Media Sales Hiring Technical Review 145

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The bulk of mobile traffic comes from developing nations (read: low budget). is now seeing a 50/50 split between mobile and desktop traffic—a significant change from the 25/75 split in 2015. To avoid overloading your sales team, offer 1:1 demos only to those who meet a certain lead score. Even the biggest SaaS market, the U.S.,

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. For certain customer profiles or market segments, it may be necessary to combine freemium with a sales team. Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid. Here are the metrics you absolutely need to be tracking to get freemium right.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. About five years ago, I had a couple other SaaS products in the survey space, and at the time getting things related to SaaS metrics was an exercise in futility with lots of Excel spreadsheets or hacking to get these little internal tools. This is a bad situation.”

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Startup Finance 137

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

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

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.

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Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 217

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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Data Scale Payment Features Trends 105

Frontegg

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The pros when it comes to passwordless authentication are rather obvious: Brute Force Attack Immunity – More often than not, passwords tend to be weak. This self-service authentication solution also has an active developer community. Let’s wait a bit and consider the pros and cons. There have been mixed reviews about the support.

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Underperforming Technical Team Identity management Software Review Scale 64

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. In January of 2015 I was hired by PatientPop as the VP of sales. We’ll talk about some of the stuff that you do as you grow your team a little bit and then we’ll sort of wrap it up with some advanced stuff.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 254

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there? We provide data for modern sales and marketing teams across all the products they already use.

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Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

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

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. I spent years researching the psychology behind purchase decisions and used that knowledge to develop a four step conversion optimization process deeply rooted in emotional marketing. Here’s an example of this thinking system in action.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. And that’s probably not so much in a down market like this, where investors really care about the metrics and the unit economics. What does this mean?

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Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 143

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We’ve been doing these SaaStr events since 2015, the SaaStr Annual. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. We’ve got two awesome other people on our team, Amanda and [Jamara 00:08:18].

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015. And what is this thing?

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Technical Review Payment Methods Payment Solutions Development Team Review 199