SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. A bad one can torpedo you.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 290

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 289

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 277

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 326

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. The concept was the foundation for his popular talk and ultimately his classic, long-form blog post. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

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. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 260

Blulogix

JUNE 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why MGI Research Ranked BluLogix a Top Agile Billing Platform in 2025 In May 2025, BluLogix was recognized by MGI Research in its Agile Billing Top 50 Buyer’s Guide —a definitive analysis of the top billing platforms for businesses navigating modern monetization.

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Payment Features Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 338

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 117

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 110

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? 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. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Imagine you sell HR software designed to help HR managers run their teams efficiently.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales 129

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

His book, Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement , takes some of these learnings and distills them into an actionable guidebook for “how to turn arguments into a productive and enjoyable dialog rather than a bad-natured confrontation.”. I like to think of them as neither good nor bad. Short on time?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technology Social Media Outsourced Development 232

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 131

Stax

MAY 6, 2025

In this blog, well unpack what scalability really looks like in a payment solution and how to choose one that wont hold you backwhether you’re just beginning to start accepting payments or scaling to new markets. A scalable platform integrates with your tools and automates reconciliation, reducing errors and freeing up your team.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you sat and you said, “Okay, we sign a customer, we process their contract, we have to get them provisioned. For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. They got a verbal, they’re like, we’re going to get a contract this is a scrape. Maybe, maybe not.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 231

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.  After all, most leads consume three to four pieces of content from a vendor before engaging with their sales team.  This felt like a missed opportunity. Sometimes, a lot. 

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 123

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Small websites, personal blogs, and other newer websites can definitely get away with a cheap web hosting plan. To find the best cheap web hosting plan for your site, make sure to take the following elements into consideration: Contract Terms. These contracts are typically paid up-front and in-full. In short, they aren’t cheap.

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Scale Outsourced Development Systems Review Technical Review 145

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. Their free version includes unlimited tasks per team, projects in the board or list view, unlimited file storage, an activity log, and more. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. per user per month.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 122

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In this guide, our team at Neil Patel Digital has outlined some vital tips to identify and hire specialized marketing agencies, as well as help you understand how these agencies fare when compared to an end-to-end agency. This can include posts on social media networks, company blogs, or creating gated assets like PDFs and whitepapers.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Outsourced Development Marketing 120

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

More blog posts by Josh Gallant How much does it cost to design a landing page? If you need any truly custom elements, those will need to be carefully developed if you can’t find any off-the-shelf solutions. These builders may also have tiers based on your team size or the volume of traffic you deal with. Image courtesy Zola.

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Pricing Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 90

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB Enterprise 210

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. An easy way to check for this is the agency’s blog, YouTube channel, or their own email list.

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Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 118

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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. million in 2013 to $115.9

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 286

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. Bad customer support: One bad experience with your customer support team can push customers to consider leaving your product.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

One of the main reasons why most landing pages and sales pages are not converting leads into customers is a weak call to action with no sense of urgency. Developing a sense of urgency versus being pushy is a fine line. Music Law Contracts also evokes curiosity in their call-to-action button. Tactic #1: Selling the Trial.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Sales Hiring Telecommunications 145

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products. A business with high MRR won’t be worth as much if the churn rate is through the roof and your retention rate is poor.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

If we want to queue up the conversation, we did a blog post on SaaStr last week, about how everyone from Salesloft, to Zendesk, to Salesforce, Workday said they’re really seeing no slow down. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. Jason Lemkin: Okay. Let’s get it going.

Scale 270

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 270

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Read the Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Great VP of Sales ebook or What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One blog post. But for a non-sales or marketing product, a tech or development product, or products that are more complicated than the last sale are likely to implode because they can’t learn it on the fly. There’s no way.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Interviewing 154

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our team at Neil Patel Digital has reviewed the five best Facebook ad agencies to help you master advertising on the platform. Additionally, our team of experts – top-level and in-house marketing managers – are well-versed in what clicks and what doesn’t on a social media platform like Facebook. We don’t claim this, Inc.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Outsourced Development Scale 105

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. You can read blog posts, tweets about why you shouldn’t try to create a company outside the Bay area. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home.

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CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 169

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

Reply to comments, answer questions, and, every so often, visit a reader’s blog and give them some free feedback or tips on how to improve their site. Let’s look at a few real-world examples: Twitter is a unique micro-blogging platform. The viral effect of bad customer service is alarming. Be willing to work hard.

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Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 140

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 128

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. To be honest, you sleep better.

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Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers. Subscriber or not, anyone who wants to increase their SaaS knowledge will benefit by reading the … For years we have been reading and hand-picking the best SaaS blog posts to share with 24K+ SaaS Roundup subscribers.

Scale 52

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User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Its analytics are better-developed than Userflow, but all its plans are more expensive. Just like us, they struggle to pinpoint any major weaknesses of the product. They also rate highly how Appcues has been consistently improving the product and the responsiveness of the customer support team. according to G2 reviewers.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 98

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98