SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. Organizations are guilty of putting it on the back burner even though it is one of the most crucial factors in success. Maintaining the focus on customer success throughout the mergers and acquisitions process is difficult.

Acquisition 10

Acquisition Customer Success Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. The basic premise that the freemium business model operates on is this: Several hundred thousands of users sign up for the freemium plan, and then a good cohort of them will convert into paying customers. How These Freemium SaaS Companies Are Redefining Customer Success.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

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. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. Invest in customer success.

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Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

Part-Time VPE 224

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 224

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. How does Liat think Airtable is pushing up against the traditional customer success model? What changes with children?

Sales Hiring 110

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 110

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.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

This year we thought we would do something a bit different and frame this as a conversation between two pricing leaders, Kyle Poyar, VP, Market Strategy here at OpenView, and Steven Forth, Partner at Ibbaka, a strategic capability development platform that enables sustainable growth. The value proposition can change over the customer journey.

Pricing 54

Pricing Scale Underperforming Technical Team B2B 54

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

Underperforming Technical Team 92

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Retention 92

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.

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that. ” And then we debated like how across the leadership team to say, “Hey, can we afford this or not?” I think it will have potentially a poor impact on your brand in the short and most likely the long-term too.

Scale 188

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 188

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

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.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

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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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Who sales development should report to (spoiler: it’s marketing). Who should sales development report to? [15:20]. We talk about the history of marketing, who sales development should report to, all of it. I have about 140 folks and that includes the sales development reps. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

Sales Recruiting 79

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 79

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. They sell that product to general councils, operations teams, and deal desks. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

Scale 107

Scale CTO Hire Scaling CTO Coach 107