User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. So, let me walk you through that. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

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30 Day Leadership

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode, leadership coach, Nils interviews Dustin Tysick, host of the B2B Revenue Leaders Podcast and VP of Revenue at Testimonial Hero, about the importance of coaching and adapting to different personalities and processing styles. The cost of not consistently developing your leadership skills is enormous.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

B2B sales is always changing, but nothing could’ve quite prepared us for the wild ride that 2020 ended up being. 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.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites. Then, in 2023, they moved into messaging.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? But I almost never see mediocre outsource SEO really work for B2B. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 3, 2019

Have you ever visited a B2B website and wondered whether you had somehow gone back in time to the days of VHS? Or maybe you run a B2B brand and can’t for the life of you figure out why you inherited a website that is so poorly designed and structured for SEO. Bad web design is a trend among B2B brands. You’re not alone.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If you’ve used big-name prospecting tools before, you know that they all share one, massive problem: Bad data. Wiza is the only B2B contact database that sources and verifies contact data in real-time, the moment it’s requested, using LinkedIn as its source of truth. So, Wiza was built. Accurate data is the foundation of relevancy.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. So that’s easy.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 5, 2019

As a B2B marketer, you’re no stranger to the often overwhelming count of tasks on your plate. The most effective B2B marketers know better than most how to prioritize their workflow, automate tasks, organize their calendars, and invest in marketing channels that pay dividends. What is B2B marketing?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing. And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority. Others don’t invest in nurturing relationships.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 28, 2021

B2B customer segmentation best practices. Note: Over time, the subdivision will require more maintenance by the administrator or customer success team. If your customer success team is too distributed or you abandon your micromanagement account, you will run out of resources. Are your clients autonomous? Do you have many?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. When done right, your sales team won’t just accelerate your company’s growth; they’ll enrich your company’s culture and help build a better product too. 12 steps to build a world-class sales team.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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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. Ironpaper bills itself as a B2B growth agency. Projects start at $10,000.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 30, 2018

For 13+ years in marketing, I’ve never seen a B2B company who’d say they don’t have a B2B marketing strategy framework or that their marketing strategy is ineffective. But at the same time 6200+ B2B marketers say that their biggest challenges are generating traffic and leads, and proving the ROI of marketing activities.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For the longest time, B2B SaaS companies have failed to put much thought into their mobile experience because: People don’t work on mobile. The bulk of mobile traffic comes from developing nations (read: low budget). To avoid overloading your sales team, offer 1:1 demos only to those who meet a certain lead score. Not exactly.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

They are on a scale that is uncommon for B2B companies, with a $350M run rate, 90K paying customers, and an additional 50-100K free or trial customers at any given time. As Zendesk grew and invested in people, the business and processes became complicated. So Product was needed to help un-complicate.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

One of the top minds in B2B PR I’ve worked with is Ed Zitron. What it does is give your company a bad name. Don’t embellish stats or partnerships, don’t say a trial is a full customer, and don’t say that a firm invested if one of their partners invested personally. It helps build morale for the team.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In the highly competitive B2B tech space, it’s easy to market your offer with so many tools and channels available. In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. ” Having a particular title does not make someone a good champion.

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Hull

JANUARY 12, 2020

Today’s B2B technology buyers have more choices than ever. As the software landscape becomes increasingly competitive and buyer behavior and expectations continue to evolve, B2B technology vendors have found themselves in a mad scramble to differentiate. Your marketing team may know that Jane Doe from Acme Corp.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. This is the first challenge facing enterprise SaaS sales teams. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter. EHS Manager.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

In this article, I will summarize what I’ve learned about B2B sales outsourcing. Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. Where do you invest to scale your business? You don’t want that kind of bad reputation.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2023

I’ve been selling to B2B for over 35 years — that’s more than 70,000 hours of practice. On the left is the stage where you identify your prospects for your sales funnel and begin to develop rapport and trust. Related: 77 Motivational Sales Quotes To Inspire Your Team in 2023 4. Do you invest your time or spend it?

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CustomerSuccessBox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Poor customer service, etc. Yet, many Customer Success Managers find it difficult to calculate the ROI (return on investment) of Customer Value. – Identify the attributes that would help you to slice and dice the data to see strengths and weaknesses. Customer Value ROI% = (Benefits- Investments) / Investments X 100.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

”Tito, how do I go about building a sales team (especially the sales development function) from scratch?” Before we dive in, and maybe even more important than “how to” is the “how NOT to” part, so let’s cover some of the mistakes most people make when building SDR teams first.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

No wonder you never want to eat out again… The Sales Development outsourcing industry is broken for that exact reason. Your cost of trying to build Sales Development in house is therefore $90,000 at a minimum. Most likely with 2 SDRs, a manager, and some consulting, you’re investing $200,000 for an experiment.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. However, not all companies are fortunate enough to be flushed with cash from previous funding rounds.

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