Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. And I’m sure we’ve all seen that quote that say if a design needs an explanation, it’s a bad design. During this time though, Facebook users also flocked to Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, et al. This stuff is hard!

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. Tito explains when it makes sense to prioritize customer acquisition vs. retention and vice versa. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Company Culture Acquisition 101

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. If you think of this from a market size standpoint, there’s often this debate, is that good or bad?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

For example, 1,200 unique startups raised funding at Series B in 2021—about a third more than in each prior year since 2017. Option 3: Mergers and acquisitions. Instead of selling the business or raising another funding round, a merger or acquisition of another company could be a strategic next step in your growth journey.

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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 Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results. Denver based AE.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Product led growth (PLG) is an end user focused model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian).

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Very few of our early-stage investments have a Customer Success team at the time we invest. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. By identifying these critical stages, you can then employ best practices to improve and optimize employee acquisition, engagement and performance.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. What they stop doing is leaving.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

In his blog, we’ll show you why profitability and growth depend on retention marketing; how to measure retention; how to reduce churn rate , and how to develop a strategy for keeping and growing your customers through the critical early stages and beyond. According to Mixpanel research from 2017, the cross-sectoral average rate was 20%.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. RELATED: How To Build A Data Drive Sales Team. Ideas Ryan finds transformative [29:33].

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full interview here, and check out the truncated text version below.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have product-market fit, you could be advertising to the wrong buyer personas and attracting the wrong buyers, leading to higher churn and poor retention. Companies that have been successful in finding it are able to be more efficient with their growth resources and acquisition dollars. Marketing messaging. Churn rates.

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Product Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Advertising 52

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

Scale 52

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TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Be a customer for a day – good old role play (and across all teams)400.

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TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Be a customer for a day – good old role play (and across all teams)400.

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Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

I really like this way of thinking as it’s not just for the short term and the now, it’s about the what (the value) and the who (it allows for customers to include customers as we know them, our employees and team members and our shareholders and investors). Be a customer for a day – good old role play (and across all teams)400.

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Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021. Your review presence will also have a big impact.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

which was acquired by Oracle in April 2017. He served as Chairman and CEO of the company until its acquisition by Yahoo! 29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. Previously, Michael was the co-founder and chairman of Moat, which was acquired by Oracle in April of 2017. in July 2007.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. Retention over acquisition. I’ve worked with sales teams and their goals go up every single year.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The acquisition process [21:55]. 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. Who influenced AJ [33:28].

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yoursales

AUGUST 17, 2023

A 10-rep team selling a transactional offering won’t fit inside the 1000 record limit for very long. Forecasting sales with Agile CRM Since forecasting is essential to sales teams , any CRM – free or not – will have to provide tools to make forecasting as easy and as accurate as possible. In fact, very few will. Pros: none.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The race to the 2017 finish line is in full throttle – While last minute closed deals are still trickling in, B2B organizations are researching how to shape next year’s sales strategy to align with the top sales trends that are expected to emerge in 2018. Spike in acquisition purchasing power – validated via Tomasz Tunguz.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

everything from acquisition to monetization plays together well and we drive profitable growth. So this was back in 2017, I think. And so I just imagined us both back in 2017 doing this together and not knowing each other at that time. And, you know, I’ve worked in acquisitions and led acquisitions in the past.

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