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 so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them. Even the poorest of the poor. And then when I was about 12, my dad taught me how to weld. It can drive itself.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. ” — Rainmaker 2018 Attendee. We are leaving with new friends, new knowledge and new ideas.” – Team Microsoft.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams. “The

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

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Neil Patel

JUNE 22, 2021

That’s a lesson for you when developing a sound content marketing strategy: when creating more landing pages, think strategically about keywords and build your content around the right ones. It enables you to develop content that speaks to each segment more effectively. Not too bad! Or, take a look at Copyblogger Media.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael has 15 years of experience running global sales and product teams across multiple software and FinTech companies. Overseeing the growth of their sales and business development organization from 2 to 30 teams across the U.S. Michael Coscetta: I feel bad for those three people because they are definitely missing out.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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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. And that is what today is all about: innovation. “We We’re here for you.”

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

of total global sales will come from partner ecosystems (2018). In a recent research study, 60% of business executives say a partner ecosystem is the most effective way to address, and even lead, disruption ( Accenture , 2018). Nurture Your Relationship Through A Partner Enablement Team. Create A Partner Portal.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

of total global sales will come from partner ecosystems (2018). In a recent research study, 60% of business executives say a partner ecosystem is the most effective way to address, and even lead, disruption ( Accenture , 2018). Nurture Your Relationship Through A Partner Enablement Team. Create A Partner Portal.

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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. 2018 saw about $44 billion of value added to the public markets, companies like Dropbox, companies like DocuSign, and that has continued now into 2019.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). One customer success trend I’m seeing is the need to develop more repeatable customer education programs. The biggest trend I see emerging in Europe, which started at the end of 2018 is Customer Success Plans becoming a staple asset of Customer Success teams. “The

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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 when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Bring such people into the DevOps fold, share learnings and build trust.

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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.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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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. Shopify has been amply rewarded for its innovations in ecommerce. Consistent updates. Growth stage.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We’ll explore just how rapidly SaaS became a driver of innovation, the external threats against it, and how the benefits of SaaS helped IT discover a need for a more centralized way to manage all of the products its employees use in this latest installment of SaaSOps 101. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They are innovators, to be sure, but what sets them apart is the ability to develop go-to-market models that create economic advantage at the level of gross margin and—eventually— operating margin. In rapid order, it has grown to $700 million in revenue (in 2018), with one million members and thousands of archived classes.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

According to a 2018 Upwork study , 63% of U.S. Because working remotely for product teams is not the norm. Product is highly cross-functional and collaborative, all about innovation and creativity. But as the shift to remote work happens in product, teams will need to make changes to ensure everyone’s continued success.

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Virtualized teams for support on implementation. For example, he had an idea for an innovative car seat, but after running it through these filters, it became obvious that this business idea was incompatible with his vision. Innovative pricing is a massive risk. However, there are rare cases in which innovative pricing works.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Meanwhile, marketing teams from every competitor fight to rank on the same top keywords, driving costs per click through the roof. They aren’t alone.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. These are bad ideas. This is where the cloud meets. Allen Gannett: Okay.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. Well, in a booming market, executives are paid to innovate.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

Whether youre a developer tuning a model or a business leader integrating AI into your product, knowing how LLMs are trained helps you make better decisions in leveraging this technology. LLM developers pull in text from every corner of the digital world. In practice, its a bit more nuanced.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

We’re continuing to innovate. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. Some needed talent development. old is like a bad word in tech ? background music]. We’re not just sitting around. background music].

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2018

While most conferences are starting to become more about networking and stealthy product pitches by sponsors, Sales Hacker’s Revenue Summit 2018 was unforgettable. Let’s dive into the Revenue Summit 2018 recap broken down into 5 key takeaways. Top sales teams chase conversion metrics. Volume metrics a.k.a.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

So our team tried to fill the gap to help you build or enhance your own sales stack. Left to its own, a sales force will eventually become too bloated, unwieldy, and counterproductive if everyone on the team reverts to performing tedious tasks manually. Related: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update).

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. There’s a debate about dates : some feel they’re too constraining and that the team should be able to launch the product whenever it’s ready. Few teams put nearly enough effort into onboarding.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Andrea Johnson. Co-Founder of Utah Women in Sales. Ang McManamon. Jamie Crosbie.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

If you’ve already finished our 30 Best Sales Books, the 10 titles below will continue to build on what you’ve learned with innovative perspectives on the psychology, science, and strategy of sales from industry gurus (and a few unexpected names, too). The Sales Development Playbook by Trish Bertuzzi. The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. According to this 2018 research report by ProfitWell, companies using freemium have 50% lower CAC with NPS scores nearly double those of non-freemium businesses. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium in SaaS is old news.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eghbal offers a new taxonomy of communities — including newer phenomena such as “stadiums” of open source developers, other creators, and really, influencers — who are performing their work in massive spaces where the work is public (and not necessarily participatory). Foundation — where we talked about the changing culture of open source.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

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