SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. 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. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

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 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. Then she joined Winning By Design in 2017 as Latin America Director.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

But back in 2017, CEO and co-founder Peter Gassner joined us after Veeva had recently IPO’d with a market cap less than a tenth of that size. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT . Super cool.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 340

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 18, 2018

That tiny, seemingly obvious improvement turned out to be the most upvoted update we shipped in 2017. Which means that intuition can be developed and improved by feeding more experiences and knowledge into it. Third, despite however much practice, there are things our brains are still bad at. How many customers will it impact?

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Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Development Data 222

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 17, 2021

Marianne joined us in 2017 as a Sales Development Representative. I never knew I was poor. I never knew the struggle until I was older and realized, ‘Oh woah, we were poor.’ In 2019, my parents got in a really bad car accident and completely totaled their car. It’s always, always who you are with. Take a look.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Sales SaaS 138

Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2018

This is part 2 of a 5-part series to help you develop the right approach to sales coaching. Coaching isn’t about who’s good and who’s bad. It isn’t about leaving the stars alone and trying to crack the code for the underperformers. You’ve got to think—what’s next for each member of my sales team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Sales Software Review 100

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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Engineering Management DevOps as a Service Merchant Services 214

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2018

This is part one of a five-part series to help you develop the sales coaching approach that’s guaranteed to make you an unstoppable sales leader! Commit to Being Relevant to the Entire Team. Aptitude is defined as the natural gifts of a member of the team. . 2) The team member’s level of motivation. .

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Sales 111

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. . Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way.

Retention 34

Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo through 2017, improving retention was the top priority of Gina Gotthilf. Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Underperforming Technical Team Retention Engineering Metrics 223

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In his 2017 keynote, “The User Experience of Design Systems” , designer, artist and educator Rune Madsen dissects not just the oft-celebrated rewards of systems, but also the inherent risks that broad ones bring to the table. Emmet: On the face of it, there’s a lot of great team or business advantages.

User Experience 191

User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Telecommunications 191

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do?

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Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 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

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And in February 2017, I decided to take it to the next level by acquiring Ubersuggest for $120,000. The developers that I had at that time estimated that I could do this for $30,000 to $45,000 a month. My back-end development bill from Tryolabs was $47,885 for January. Don’t feel bad for me. The same goes for labor.

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Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Machine Learning 145

Sales Hacker

APRIL 30, 2020

Companies often hire sales reps who have knowledge of, or even a passion for, the brand’s product or industry — which is great because it gives you a team of “walking brochures” who can spout off all the benefits of your product. Recruiting ideas for a high-performance sales team. Great salespeople develop their skills over many years.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 118

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 145

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. . How to execute “developer marketing” and how to build a developer community. Un-Marketing to Developers [14:16].

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 80

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2023

On the left is the stage where you identify your prospects for your sales funnel and begin to develop rapport and trust. Related: 77 Motivational Sales Quotes To Inspire Your Team in 2023 4. Develop your strengths What is it that you do well, and how can you do it better? If you sow bad ones, you reap a bad harvest.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Funnel Investment Sales 122

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. Amazon collected 42% of all purchases made online in 2017. One of the biggest shifts that Meghan has made is to the way her team is organized.

Acquisition 116

Acquisition Scale Underperforming Technical Team Advertising 116

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. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. Company : AltiSales Noteworthy : Tito is an expert in sales development and all things sales.

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Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Company Culture Acquisition 104

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. Also, managing separate user experiences by user segment can be hard for engineering and design teams to scale.

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Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2017, she started working as a product lead at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, building their infectious disease program and IDseq, an open-source online platform to spot movement of diseases across borders, the emergence of new illnesses, or the spread of drug-resistant strains. Also, there’s just massive amounts of need.

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Scale Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Technical Review 223

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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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

At Customer Success Summit 2017 , Sam Boonin, VP of Product Strategy at Zendesk, gave a keynote address where he pointed out that “relationships between businesses and consumers are complicated,” because what they want is different. The biggest users of the dashboards were CSMs, who were enormous consumers of usage data.

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Customer Success Investment Scale Underperforming Technical Team 84

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

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. By taking a hybrid approach, you get the benefits of product-led growth—scalability and faster client activation—while directing your sales team’s effort toward nurturing relationships with enterprise customers.

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We collectively as a company were fortunate in doing all those things and, boy, was it a heck of a team effort, and it was a lot of fun. We had created an incredible brand with developers, in particular, and created developer love for what we did and the product. ” I didn’t do all those things. I won’t lie.

Scale 159

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 159

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 30, 2017

This is a goal I share with HubSpot’s sales leadership - indeed, I’m a firm believer that shared goals are the one true way to drive alignment between teams. At the beginning of 2017 we made a bunch of significant changes - these impacted everything from our sales motion to compensation structure to product line.

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Sales Enablement Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 100

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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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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%. Development Programs. 41% of employees consider career development and personal growth opportunities important to their job satisfaction ( SHRM , 2017).

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Building a world-class sales team. For developer-focused products (i.e. In fact, for such products, developers will often judge the product by your API documentation. Look at the first item in Twilio’s navigation menu: Twilio knows the importance of documentation for its developer-focused products.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS Technical Review 68

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

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). Ideally, a cybersecurity tool runs quietly in the background, covering for the CISO and ensuring there are no weaknesses. billion for the company, in cash.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Cybersecurity Social Media 89

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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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 113

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. Anu: March of 2017. It was, kind of, like a developer friend who had a startup, so they saw their transactions on the terminal. Anu: And then the rest of the team? The first end team.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 218