OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2022

Most companies track R&D as a % of revenue, and maybe a few metrics about activity, but few CFOs can answer the question of what’s the ROI on their R&D investment. How can Finance and Engineering management work together to diagnose weak areas, and shift R&D resources to produce better outcomes for the company?

Software Review 59

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Outsourced Development 59

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. New Relic processes this data and provides interactive reports to identify underperforming code.

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Metrics Sales Hiring 100

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Editor’s note: We’d like to thank our friends at OPEXEngine for contributing their benchmarks, insights, and expertise to this article. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

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.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. If your product doesn’t help them reach their end goals, they’ll stop investing their time and money in it.

Underperforming Technical Team 91

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 91

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

This week we released our third annual Expansion SaaS Benchmarks report. But benchmarks alone are not enough. We’ve got to make the leap from benchmarks to action. Here’s our advice on how to use the benchmark data to grow even faster in 2020. Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit.

Benchmarks 41

Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 41

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again. The ICT products for marketing automation are much more mature and developed with the marketing process in mind. The expected return on this investment. The risk associated with the investment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Sales Finance 94

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.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Different factors determine loyalty: where B2C SaaS users may prioritize values such as price or user experience, B2B customers place more emphasis on return on investment. These considerations mean that B2B SaaS brands must develop industry-appropriate strategies to manage customer loyalty effectively.

B2B 108

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 108

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. Some sales teams consider a customer success manager as the post-sale counterpart of an account executive. The role of customer success teams.

Sales Hiring 123

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 123

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do?

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 145

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 165

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Benchmarks Sales 165

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.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And what better way to develop this other than enlisting the help of an expert digital strategy consultant who can do a broad set of activities, each of which is directed towards helping you meet your goals. As a result, you can build long-lasting relationships by giving customers higher value for their investment.

Consulting 123

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

User Pilot

MAY 26, 2024

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. Userlane for customer feedback Userlane enables teams to collect user feedback and enhance product experiences through basic survey functionality. Cons of Userlane As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Systems Review 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

COVID-19 has put many businesses in the tough position of choosing what to cut rather than where to invest. This gives sales teams a big opportunity to fill that gap and build a long term relationship. According to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report , best-in-class SDRs generate $415k in pipeline per rep every month.

Engagement 99

Engagement Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 99

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?”. This data point isn’t like our typical benchmarks. This team in turn can be trusted to execute on growth, product, hiring, etc.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

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. It just works.

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the subscription economy, there’s no debate about whether or not to invest in Customer Success (CS); 70% of rapidly growing businesses say that Customer Success is extremely important ( Hubspot , 2017). When it comes to budget, organizations often haven’t established where the investment is coming from to fund the CS team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts. You can clearly see what the return will be from every dollar, euro or pound invested. This is always a huge mistake. Scenario B. Difference. Number of customers.

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Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM). We’re going to look at what data you need to develop an account targeting strategy and where to get that data. In Summary.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Data Development Team Review 58

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This leads to a constant backlog of requests for data teams. User-friendly delivery of clear and concise answers is the benchmark, and self-serve is fast becoming the ‘norm’. Since its debut in the 1980s, no-code has changed the game when it comes to developing applications—and launching them at speed.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2017

Many companies are investing in the creation of sales enablement teams, but as they’re so new, there’s a distinct lack of thought leadership, standardised measurement and best practices available. Put simply, as a sales organisation grows, the sales enablement team must evolve alongside it.

Sales Enablement 112

Sales Enablement Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 112

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s important to focus on those users who become customers from the beginning because their usage of the product, and where they fall off in this user journey, will help you prioritize where your team spends the most time and resources to convert at the highest rate. . This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. .

Scale 72

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Marketing 72

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. I think this is important for product teams for two reasons.

Artificial Intelligence 249

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

What are its best features and are there any drawbacks you should be aware of before investing in it? Ways Userlane helps teams increase product adoption: It layers on other software applications to provide employees with step-by-step on-screen support. And highlights areas teams can improve and optimize. Search no more!

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding User Experience 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

How do you ensure you’re maximizing your sales team’s potential? How do you inspire your team to go above and beyond what they think is possible? All it really means is that you’re using data to unlock and maximize the potential of your team, and using it to judge how you stack up to the competition. Why did my quota go up?

Scale 101

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Banking 101

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.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2021

Investing in the quality of your customer support experience is one of the most powerful ways to grow your company, but every company’s definition of “quality” is different. Together, we surveyed hundreds of CX professionals, team leads, managers, and executives to get a deeper understanding of how they measure and improve support quality.

Customer Support 129

Customer Support Scale Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 129

Scytale

AUGUST 29, 2023

Understanding the Purpose of the Security Questionnaire The utilization of a security questionnaire holds a huge significance within the realm of evaluating the compatibility of an organization with predetermined security benchmarks, thereby laying the foundation for a productive and secure collaborative partnership.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Development Team Review Technical Review compliance 52

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Generally, if any part of your team is working on an activity that’s touching on acquiring customers all their expenses should be included in the calculation — salaries, rent, and so on. Source: OpenView Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report .

Acquisition 91

Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

Sales Hacker

MARCH 24, 2021

The key to unlocking a stronger opportunity pipeline and an increase in qualified leads is a unified, cohesive marketing and sales team. Only 46 percent of business owners describe their marketing and sales teams as “highly aligned,” meaning it’s time to get back to the drawing board for the other 54 percent.

Marketing 106

Marketing Sales Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 106

SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. Accurate and up-to-date financial records display the current state of your business, help you maintain GAAP/IFRS compliance, and prove to potential VCs that your company is worth the investment.

SaaS 76

SaaS Scale Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting 76

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Competitors and key players: You’ll want to identify your competitors and their strengths and weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses: Point out the areas where you have an advantage in your market or where you’re most vulnerable. What are your current benchmarks? Here are a few examples. For each segment?

Strategy 124

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Scale 124

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2023

Ang McManamon is a tenured sales leader who puts culture first, helps build high performing SaaS teams, and executes with urgency across all areas of an organization. She is currently the VP of Sales at Crunchbase, where she leads a high growth team out of New York City. What does the early build for a strong sales team look like?

Scale 64

Scale Leadership Sales Hiring Sales 64

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2018

The below chart averages all of our live chat related DRLPs, some of which performed better than others, but even including the underperforming DRLPs, we’ve seen positive results. If you don’t have extensive market research available to you, go out and talk to other teams within your company to get anecdotal information.

Scale 136

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Market Research 136