FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. Since the only thing consultants do is implementations, their job title should be “Implementation Consultant“. Any solutions practices or offerings should be built by our partners.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2014

They have been written by salespeople, CTOs, speechwriters, consultants and magnates. For example, from Hitz’s point of view, politics is the art of getting groups of people to come to a common conclusion by developing consensus. They range from written 70 years ago to written in the past 3 years. and building a startup.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. If you want to be in this niche, perhaps consider narrowing it down by choosing only to use small businesses or those from a specific region of the United States. Develop a Business Plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? A year or two years before we really took the plunge, I was kind of helping her in a consulting capacity to think about how she could build a company and what that would look like.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. A final comment on purpose: It should come from your team. Simon Sinek.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A bad onboarding experience won’t impact your bottom line as a SaaS company, but it will negatively affect your customer’s productivity. What makes an onboarding experience a bad one? BigCommerce is so focused on providing a robust onboarding experience that they even offer one-on-one consultation for their clients.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. Matching skills available in a scalable business model. There are sales specialists who help you with that in a non-consulting, first-hand, prospect-facing manner. State-of-the-art processes.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. And it was basically my job to make it clickable.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

If you have a clear answer to the first question and a confident ‘Yes’ for the second, then you’ve got problem/solution fit and a hypothesis, and it’s time to start pressure testing your idea,” advises growth marketing consultant Lauren Bass. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit. This, in turn, signals potential churn, difficulties getting new sales reps productive, below-average win rates, weak pricing power and never-ending product roadmap discussions. But sales looks more like customer success in a PLG business. Is this slipping over time?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? ” How do you think about this type of business and how would you respond to that VC?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. What do I need funding for?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. So it’s that.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

So our team tried to fill the gap to help you build or enhance your own sales stack. Based on experience, businesses would find it painfully difficult to keep competition at bay and reduce process inefficiencies. Outsource the sales development process. Develop sales people through training. What Is Sales Automation?

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. We had a pretty big team. Missed the session? Andrew Filev. It was before they even were called SaaS.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 20, 2020

Additional research showed that “[M]any of its Customer Success Managers fell short in this area, despite their technical backgrounds because they lacked the recent field experience needed to engage deeply with frontline operations teams.” Morgan advises that “Change agents need to develop a strong voice.” Improve Your Public Speaking.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! Only a team of superb talent can move your business ahead of the competition. The same calculus especially applies the sales team. ASLAN Training & Development.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. Go without one and risk seeing your business flame out. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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Kellblog

JULY 11, 2020

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by UCLA Anderson professor Richard Rumelt is by far my favorite book on strategy. It’s borderline therapeutic to watch him tear down case after case of junk that is pitched by executives and consultants as strategy. The Core Concepts of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. Why I Love This Book.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Sales Models and Fundamentals. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. Top of Mind.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The SaaS Business Model & Metrics: Understand the Key Drivers for Success by David Skok, Matrix Partners SaaS Metrics — 201 A slightly deeper dive into SaaS industry metrics. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results. Step 5: Set Targets.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

I started my career at Bain and Company in consulting and unexpectedly spent over the course of 17 years staying at Bain mainly because when I would get comfortable, I would always have the next opportunity for the next promotion or the next client, et cetera, so I felt like I was always learning and growing. Lara Caimi: Yes.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. We’re on iTunes.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation. The fact that you are still building or continuously enhancing your application does not give you the right to treat your users and customers like a crowd-sourced testing team.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

In this new business model, customers hold the power--they expect better service, better products, better experiences, and better prices from companies they purchase from. The risk to switch is so low that one survey found that 63% of DTC customers leave after one poor customer experience. The New Customer-First Paradigm.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It And in cases where our customers get stuck, our support team responds in a timely manner with personalized video. Flat-rate pricing: A great starting point.

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Unbounce

JULY 12, 2023

How you can increase the volume and variety of your creative output using AI How you can improve your prompts If managing your data privacy is even possible in this new AI age Listen to the episode to find out about how (human) marketing agencies can fare against marketing robots… or maybe team up and create an even more powerful force.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” However, if the basic ingredients for growing a sustainable, high-performance business are missing, you’re setting yourself up for frustration.”. However, this model was unsustainable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. Short on time? What makes a habit?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. It’s hard to find any other uber categories than that, but then for CS people sometimes, it’s challenging for them to make that connection from using a feature of New Relic to driving business value. Nick Mehta: Yeah.

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