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.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. And, wonderful products.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Delivering those better experiences requires a fundamentally new way to do customer support, a messenger-based approach that works at internet scale. The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support.

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Customer Support Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 245

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 98

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 83

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. Onboarding.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. You get a hand-picked team that will provide evidence-based, practical strategy and recommendations. When it comes to digital strategy and content marketing I’ve shown it can work.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The premature release of a product that has major overlooked software flaws can turn off potential customers immediately, with no chance to remedy the bad first impression. The entire budget has been spent on R&D with nothing left for customer acquisition. Make no mistake: in this climate, developing a SaaS business is a race.

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Scale Marketing SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

JULY 24, 2018

As we think of ways to improve sales performance, a number of growth pains may come in the way: High acquisition costs. Decreased revenue per rep, High turnover as you scale headcount. Efficiency Isn’t Something You Worry About After Scaling. In the last six months at Weave, our sales team managed this balancing act.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 19, 2022

Customer journey analytics gives teams a real-time comprehensive sight into customer behavior providing valuable insight into the journey. To that effect, data-driven companies have been investing in analytics tools that can address this limitation. How Customer Journey Analytics can benefit your business teams?

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Scale Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The struggle to convince your senior leadership team to invest in customer experience has always been there for decades. So, what is the best way to convince the core leadership to invest in customer experience? Quantifying returns on CX investments. Several CX experts have themselves struggled in this endeavor.

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale 21

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

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Scale Scaling SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 105

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Resource allocations should be fine-tuned by looking at how the Return on Investment (ROI) can be impacted by changing resource allocations across each of the major functions, especially sales and marketing, as well as product investments. ROI is calculated as: ROI = (result or benefit of investment/investment) / investment.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Customer Lifetime Value 45

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Product adoption occurs when users decide to invest in your product to achieve their goals. They move from the trial stage to actually become customers who invest in your product to get desired solutions. However, it’s often easily overlooked and confused with customer acquisition. What is product adoption in SaaS?

Customer Lifetime Value 98

Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 98

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) is an end-user-focused growth model that relies on the product as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion. Based on interviews with B2B SaaS experts who have built and scaled product-led businesses, we designed a new user journey. How could they have scaled keyword advertising?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing 72

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

In the last decade, a few major things have happened: Emergence of new platforms with incredible scale (from Facebook to TikTok). Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport.

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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

New Relic processes this data and provides interactive reports to identify underperforming code. The longer a customer uses New Relic, the more they become accustomed to developing with all the product’s insights, the more servers and applications they will migrate to New Relic’s analytics system.

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Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Metrics Sales Hiring 100

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Engagement: Ensure every interaction with your product or team solves user problems and leaves them happier. Involve your team. Invest in employee happiness. Userpilot can help you to automate and scale customer experience improvement. Develop customer empathy. Make feedback collection a regular practice.

Scale 97

Scale SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 97

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. Atypical in our world, but Neha scaled the business to well over $1M in ARR before raising funding. You should be.

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Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 208

Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Therefore, it is important to proactively deliver value with customer success best practices that work in both good and bad economic times, such as: Clear, Empathetic Communication. A business model dependent on new customer acquisition will struggle when companies inevitably try to slim spending down during a downturn.

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Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Customer Lifetime Value 118

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

If driving more customers was your customers’ #1 need, and that’s not what you helped them with, you probably didn’t build a very successful business, or the problem of solving customer acquisition for that market is very difficult. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. What Types of Businesses Are We Talking About?

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

Sales Operations is Still Developing. As a result, many skillsets build the foundation of a strong team. The responsibilities range from daily support of sales to developing the territories for regions of the world. What makes a “good” or “bad” deal? Are there upsells that make sense to incentivize to your sales team?

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Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

By benchmarking critical go-to-market KPIs, like the Magic Number – which measures how many new dollars of revenue growth are obtained getting from your sales and marketing investment compared to your competitors. Yet too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments. Know when to walk away.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

OPEXEngine

APRIL 5, 2022

In his words, “Product led growth is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.”. Poor-fit customers can weaken the product over time. But when the aperture of customer acquisition is too wide, the patterns and customer success disappear.

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Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 147

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Conversion rates can vary widely by channel and lots of poor traffic isn’t worth the effort. With large scale or long term partnerships, an internal champion whose job is on the line is essential for the success of the partnership. Ideally, a startup uses this NRE to finance and accelerate development on the product roadmap.

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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. Loving our podcast content? * First, what is continuous customer development? Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

It also extends to our customer acquisition and sales strategy. Our SDR team strived to contact 40 new accounts/week with highly personalized 1-1 messaging. The energy invested in personalization proved fruitful. We hear a lot about the importance of focus for product teams, but rarely for commercial teams.

Scale 59

Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 59

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Local SEO sounds cool and all but can it really help you scale your business in 2020? In good times and in bad times every business wants more leads. That’s why automating and constantly optimizing your customer acquisition process is so crucial to your business growth. 2 SEO Strategy Development. Do you sell offline?

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Consulting Scale Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services 131

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

According to Paysafe , 69 percent of Americans have multiple subscriptions, and 36 percent of those consumers believe they’ll invest in more soon. Develop a Business Plan. Customer acquisition cost (CAC): This refers to how much it costs to acquire a new customer. It could be a few months before you can work this out.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? You’ll also learn how leading SaaS companies are able to scale and thrive in this complex, dynamic environment. How should this enablement be structured? Missed the session?

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. The tool allows you to automate repetitive tasks without needing to write your own custom code or use up software developer resources, keeping everything running smoothly for your business. Ask different teams about pain points.

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SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59