SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. Scale winning behaviors. It’s estimated that only 35% of sales reps at US-based B2B tech firms are achieving their quotas. The opportunity to scale growth is understanding the behaviors of the top of your sales force.”.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS. The acquirer gets an opportunity to grow market share without doing the heavy lifting of growing and scaling an existing business.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. We said, “Well, we think we can do that.

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Aaron Beashel

OCTOBER 31, 2016

During his time at Salesforce, Alex was fortunate enough to work directly with Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and together they utilised a framework Benioff himself devised called the V2MOM to align and manage the Service Cloud team. It was game-changing for the company, and for each team that implemented it.

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This passwordless methodology is extremely suitable for B2B setups where dozens of SaaS applications are being used on an ongoing basis with end users mostly using their personal computers or laptops to access them. For example, app developers can implement a hybrid authentication setup in tandem with Social Logins if needed.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. What are you seeing out there, is B2B even going to survive in the next two or three months of raise, we’re down to three months runway?

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Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With organizations scaling up exponentially in a matter of months and end-users expecting nothing but the best user experience (UX), passwords are being seen as the next big casualty, and rightfully so. With password authentication, there is always additional stress on IT and support teams. Customer Ops and Product Enablement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Software Review 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In these challenging economic times, business as usual has been anything but – and like many sectors, B2B sales is in the midst of transition. A recent survey of B2B sales professionals commissioned by my company, Lusha, sheds light on the extent to which this critical industry is in a state of flux. 33% had poor sales demos.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 266

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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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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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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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

These B2B-centric offerings have gone mainstream with the PLG philosophy, where end-users discover the benefits of the app by using it, eventually becoming brand advocates and turning into a driving force behind its growth. These companies also scale up with a CAC payback that’s lower than the market average in general.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support AI Headcount 279

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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Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2021

Whether you’re running a corporate startup marketing campaign or moving your local business into the digital age , you can’t afford to waste time and money on weak leads. Forty-seven percent of B2B marketers found lead scoring to be effective , with 54 percent pointing to predictive lead scoring effectiveness. What is Lead Scoring?

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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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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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Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service SaaS Sales Hiring 52

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. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. in 2016, he co-founded Vendas B2B Summit, the largest Brazilian B2B sales online event.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

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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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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

Fortunately, many sales teams are improving coaching and executing using the new Guided Selling technology. While the term is not new, Guided Selling has recently gained momentum in the B2B selling world due to its ability to adapt on demand and scale coaching across an entire sales team. Update and Scale Best Practices.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. There has been a renaissance of user experience and design in B2B use cases over the last decade, but those typically revolve around single use case products, like: Syncing files in Dropbox.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founders : Max Armbruster. Founded : 2014.

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Teamgate

JULY 1, 2020

According to statistics , While 83% of B2B marketers use content marketing for lead generation, 61% of B2B marketers find high-quality lead generation a top challenge. Every product has its own strength and weakness. Sad but true, you need some marketing tools to scale your content marketing. But it isn’t.

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Content Marketing Scale Underperforming Technical Team Marketing 124

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services Payment Methods Scale 94

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Sharper marketing messages, savvy product development strategies, and an intimate grasp of both prospective buyers and existing customers’ preferences and needs. Organizational scale. The outcome?

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Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a closely held growth secret among large B2B professional services firms, like consultants, accountants and law firms, that Customer Success Managers (CSMs) might appreciate: The more relationships a client has across a firm, the lower that client’s flight risk. This scales the ability to answer questions and better serve customers.

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Development Team Review Technical Review SaaS Scale 98

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Whether you’re an early-stage founder or you’ve built up an established B2B SaaS business, it's crucial to understand how valuations work and how you can prepare for an exit when the time is right for you. Transferability 2.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. This is where an advanced B2B subscription management platform comes in.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2019

If an email even remotely resembles bad outreach emails, it gets deleted. Their prospecting emails can’t just say “use Slack to communicate with your team.” A generic landing page that says “use Slack as a team workspace”. How do you do it without bogging down the design and development team? No questions asked.

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