User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. Is there any kind of places where geographically you’re seeing like we’re starting to see a lot more business or a lot more acquisitions in these regions? Are you using accounting software? And I’ve done that.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. But how do you track and strengthen these connections? Criterion Does It Deliver?

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Manage Team Expectations – Balance transparency with the need to keep the team focused on building the business. Consider Buyer Reputation – Research the acquirer’s track record with previous acquisitions and their M&A experience.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 26, 2025

That’s exactly what ProProfs Knowledge Base software aims to deliver. By the end, you’ll see why ProProfs Knowledge Base is considered an authoritative yet human-friendly knowledge base software that can add value to businesses of all sizes. Online Wikis & Team Collaboration: Set up an internal wiki for projects or teams.

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Special thanks to Jason Saltzman and Live Data Technologies for sharing access to real-time job change data for over 88 million professionals, revealing critical trends across customer success and go-to-market teams. This chart examines net arrivals and departure trends in customer success (CS) roles.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2025

The only counterweight is if LPs eventually withdraw capital due to poor returns, but that’s well outside our event horizon. And if you can’t trust someone really smart on your team, you either fire them or put the tightest leash possible around them.” More deals means more news flow, more excitement, more options.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

Wiz: Territory Matters More Than Tech Stack Colin Yasukochi (Wiz CRO) demonstrated that even on the path to a $32B acquisition, territory design was more impactful than AI tools. Wiz discovered a direct correlation between territory size and productivity: the tighter the territories, the more effective their sales team became.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He also co-founded WGI Group, LLC, to provide growth capital to early and expansion stage startups in enterprise software, consumer internet and digital media industries. He served as Chairman and CEO of the company until its acquisition by Yahoo! Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2025

But behind every product launch and revenue milestone is a team – and building that team is one of the hardest and important parts of the journey. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. 13:26 The speed dating hack that landed Coffee’s first sales leader.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Sean Whiteley is a three-time founder and the current CEO of Qualified, the AI pipeline automation platform purpose-built for inbound GTM teams. From the on-premise and internet era to cloud computing and now ai, he shares our expectations.

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Scytale

JULY 25, 2025

This means that if they’re weak, it can throw off the whole framework of automated financial controls, which are essential for accurate financial reporting. Changes in the IT environment : Major changes, such as system upgrades, new software implementations, or changes in infrastructure, often introduce new risks and vulnerabilities.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. PLG ensures your product is doing the work for you in terms of customer advocacy, acquisition, and retention. Lower customer acquisition costs.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 1: Talent Acquisition. Stage 3: Employee Development. Stage 4: Employee Promotion.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MAY 4, 2018

Everybody’s got a story about bad customers. But if you’re a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, bad customers can be much worse than that. No way to recover your costs For one thing, these bad customers are likely to cost you money, not make you money. They can be downright dangerous. they’ll drop their subscription.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a metric that has been growing with the emergence of Internet companies and web-based advertising campaigns that can be tracked. What Goes Into Customer Acquisition Costs? The first company (Example 1) has a poor metric. customer acquisition cost may be quite low if customers make a $25.00

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. Best practices for effective customer acquisition and product-led growth. Focus on the right customer acquisition channels. What is a customer acquisition strategy?

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times. Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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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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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The customer acquisition cost can help you create, measure, and improve a business model that will put your business on the path to profitability. This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Your technical infrastructure?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales. When to optimize for scalability.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 1, 2021

So what works (and doesn’t work) as a SaaS acquisition strategy? In this article, you’ll learn 5 keys to building a purpose driven acquisition strategy for your SaaS and how to avoid common mistakes along the way. SaaS Customer Acquisition: Getting the basic right How to Build a Purpose-driven SaaS Customer Acquisition Strategy 1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition. 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. Transcript.

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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. Improved customer acquisition (54%).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Zach : And so as we were having this conversation, we did, of course, raise a little bit more money in that round in order to enable the acquisition.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 213

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team. The Conversational Support Funnel.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams. They’re not bad people, they’re just different from you, especially if you're an introverted geek like me. The math won’t work.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Channels used to be about software customization, delivery and support. But the reasons underpinning channel sales for license software companies are theoretically as compelling for SaaS companies. Most SaaS has little customization, manages all the delivery and are better suited to handling the support.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

And there’s lots of examples and if you’ve seen these TED Talks, you hear about Apple, Think Different and you hear about Salesforce in their early days and no software. So most of my career was over the last 10 years was that Sage Intacct and we sold accounting software. Have they just done an acquisition?

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