SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

With IPOs becoming increasingly rare (especially in B2B since 2021), M&A has become the more likely exit path for most founders. Manage Team Expectations – Balance transparency with the need to keep the team focused on building the business.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Sales Hiring 190

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Best Sales Statistics to Know in 2021. Still curious which sales trends will be on the rise in 2021? Short on time? Just looking for the highlight reels?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 132

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. Data shows a significant shift in company valuations happened from 2021 to 2022. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. Key takeaways.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Not like 2021 post-pandemic growth, but definitely growth. Companies overspent and overbought in 2021 and maybe overcut and underspent in 2022.

Scale 299

Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 299

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

But with all the bad comes so much good : the ability to share your life and work with billions of users all over the world, an outlet for creative expression, the possibility of monetizing your passion, and, perhaps, the most important of all: the ability to share and connect with family and friends.   Content, poof. Audience, bye-bye.

Social Media 112

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 112

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?

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search Marketing 145

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Support teams want it.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 223

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Not only is Klaviyo a rocketship but also the first to IPO in over 2 years (since December 2021) when it went public in September of 2023. They were way more interested in this perspective, so they’d set a goal for their team to drive $100k in “Klaviyo” bucks. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. The bet paid off. Why is that?”

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 300

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re so excited to have Olivier Pomel, CEO and co-founder of Datadog, back at SaaStr Annual 2021 Sep 26-28 in the SF Bay Area!! Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. We hired everybody on our teams.

Scale 311

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 311

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team?

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 286

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

As we gear up for SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. And if you haven’t heard: SaaStr Annual will be back in 2021 in SF Bay Area , better than ever! Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT . Super cool.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

User Pilot

MAY 29, 2025

Poor mobile UX design leads to high bounce rates, abandoned carts , and negative app reviews. Performance expectations: People using mobile web or app expect speed and instant clarity because theyre often on the go, juggling multiple tasks, or dealing with weak connections. This article will provide an in-depth guide. The bottom line?

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Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Systems Review 80

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 278

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As we gear up for 2021 SaaStr Annual, I wanted to highlight some of my very favorite Annual sessions from the past you may have missed. Also, don’t miss out on SaaStr Annual 2021 coming up FAST Sep 27-29 in SF Bay Area! You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 258

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. million workers left their jobs in 2021 — 70% of them voluntarily. Job hopping by the numbers.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Compensation 101

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 130

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can then develop standard procedures for helping customers achieve these outcomes, such as providing tutorials and support to guide new buyers through these steps. Continually improving your customer journey to remove weaknesses in your procedures. Monitoring Your Customer Journey for Weak Spots and Making Adjustments.

Scale 99

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Onboarding 99

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

Userguiding and Product Fruits offer more features, but have very clonky and buggy UX and UI, which makes them feel ‘half-baked’ and offers a poor user experience. As your team of 4 is trying to make it (and not break it!), You need to give them the right tools to do that – ideally without much involvement from your dev team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding Enterprise 105

Kellblog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Two important notes: There is an optional fourth part, sales development , i.e., managing the team of sales development reps (SDRs) who convert MQLs into stage-1 oppties. Whether this team should report into sales or marketing is a separate debate. The lines between these parts are not black and white.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing Startup 145

Frontegg

JUNE 24, 2021

Let’s take a closer look at Passwordless Authentication and the top 10 vendors you must check out in 2021. Top 10 Passwordless Vendors You Need to Consider in 2021. This self-service authentication solution also has an active developer community. Related: Password Hacking – How Are Passwords Breached? SecureAuth.

Identity management 103

Identity management Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 103

Frontegg

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Twitter crossed the 200 million mark in Q3 2021. This coverage is allowing SaaS developers to create better user experiences and improved customer satisfaction. OIDC is responsible for letting users access SaaS applications by using login credentials from the social platforms that have been enabled by the developers.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Azure Mobile 105

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. So, what happened is most of the craziness from 2020 and 2021 has been erased, yet we’re not back to the nuclear winter of fundraising in 2008.

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AI Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Strategy 200

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Our International Women’s Day theme in 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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VP of Engineering Technical Review Scale Outsourcing Services 118

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2021

Developing a revenue operations (RevOps) strategy — and the team to implement it — is no easy task. As the VP of Revenue Operations at Sales BQ®, I saw my role develop from primarily sales enablement to sales operations as we worked to understand and get a hold of the wide variety of roles RevOps is in charge of.

Scale 94

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Communication 94

Audacix

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Table Of Contents Cheat Sheet for Application Security Best Practices Get It Now The Open Web Application Security Project ( OWASP) Top 10 is an essential resource for developers and security professionals, providing a comprehensive and broad consensus of the most common and critical security risks in web applications. What are OWASP attacks?

Software Review 89

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Technical Review 89

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2021

With so many businesses remaining remote well into 2021, LinkedIn Sales Navigator can be an incredibly powerful tool for anyone looking to master the art of social selling. The Team Plan is for sales teams who want to harness the power of their shared network to build client relationships. LinkedIn Learning and Premium Career.

Sales Recruiting 119

Sales Recruiting Payments Sales Payment Solutions 119

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can then develop standard procedures for helping customers achieve these outcomes, such as providing tutorials and support to guide new buyers through these steps. Continually improving your customer journey to remove weaknesses in your procedures. Monitoring Your Customer Journey for Weak Spots and Making Adjustments.

Scale 76

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Onboarding 76

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients. The bad news: It’s tiresome to answer the same questions day in and day out! Lighten the load CSM’s normally carry.

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Moving down the lines of this blog, you will get to learn some of the smart ways of doing saas marketing in 2021. Talk to these webmasters or team and get your saas listed. A lag in loading can degrade the user experience and also give a bad impression to a saas buyer. How Is SAAS Marketing Different? Howtobuysaas. Pitchground.

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Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? Continuously hiring, managing, and retaining the right team can be incredibly difficult and time consuming—if you don’t have the right tools and processes in place to make it scalable, that is. Conducting interviews. Compensation.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2021

It’s a tried and true method for motivating and incentivizing your sales reps, but there are a lot of question marks surrounding it as we progress through 2021. As a sales leader, how are you supposed to motivate your teams without President’s Club ? Director of Sales Development at Brex. How do you plan to get there?

Strategy 69

Strategy Sales Underperforming Technical Team Travel 69

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why we partnered with Klaus , the conversation review and QA platform for support teams, to get a deeper understanding of what “quality support” actually looks like. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.

Customer Support 130

Customer Support Scale Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 130

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

If you believe that you are an expert in a skill or niche, this is the right time to transform your decade of 2021 to 2030. With platforms like this, you’ll be able to create courses but also run webinars, developer email sequences, and more. Best Online course platform Price Comparision for 2021. Try LearnDash. Try Ruzuku.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 178

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? A candidate who can’t give me a real answer may not be open to feedback or may lack the humility I want to see on my team.”. If you asked your boss, a peer and a direct report what your biggest strength and your biggest weakness are, what would each of them say?’ It’s just not productive.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Scale 98

Frontegg

APRIL 5, 2021

Two-factor authentication gives developers the freedom to implement a variety of options to act as a second layer of security. Developers face many challenges while implementing a secure and user-friendly authentication system. One that comes to mind right off the bat is the dreaded weak password. 2FA or MFA? Image Source.

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Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Banking 96

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut. million in 2013 to $115.9

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 283