SaaStr

JANUARY 13, 2023

If there’s one thing in business (and life) that’s guaranteed, it’s that things will break. After scaling from $0 to $100,000,000 in two years, Jones has a fair share of experience with things breaking. To thrive in those environments, they develop the skill sets needed. As a team, Wiz has built success and new opportunities.

Scale 227

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Communication 227

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time? Short on time?

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

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. Option 2: Selling the business. How to Navigate the Market Downturn. Option 1: Raising capital. billion in 2020 to $55.9

Scale 97

Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. It might be a little surprising to learn that the leadership style at Stack Overflow is decidedly not binary. This doesn’t mean that playbooks and frameworks are always a bad idea.

Leadership 76

Leadership SMB Underperforming Technical Team Scale 76

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna. It’s about transforming your customer’s business and delivering value, so you make their life better,” says Donna. I have two handoffs.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

A crisis can strike at any time without warning, and it can be especially stressful when business leaders are not prepared for the unknown. Many businesses are struggling to survive after the pandemic triggered unprecedented challenges, crippling the global economy as a whole. Develop a well-defined vision.

Travel 194

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 194

Incredo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Not all businesses rent an office for their activities. SaaS products like live chat, email automation, keywords research tools have become indispensable parts of any advanced business’s digital marketing toolkit. ur development ?tr?t?g? ur SaaS business. . ur business ?t’? n of thought leadership ?nd

Scale 131

Scale Scaling SaaS Business 131

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. to build digital grocery businesses in the U.S. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships.

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Short on time?

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. And we were like less than 10 million ARR and business was doing very well.

Sales Recruiting 242

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 242

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

Scale 95

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 95

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. We now had “hunters” who acquire new business and “farmers” who nurture existing business. Relentlessly measure impact.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Scale 171

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience. When scaling your customer experience, remember AI can’t simulate human empathy.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling AI Search Underperforming Technical Team 156

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

These companies also scale up with a CAC payback that’s lower than the market average in general. Sales-Led Growth is all about marketing and sales teams. Unfortunately, these pipelines are rigid and work in a way that doesn’t really allow smooth scaling. What is Sales-Led Growth? How is this achieved? Product Advocacy.

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. Well, let’s go to the business school at Michigan.” 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. Want to see more content like this? Good afternoon.

Scale 217

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 217

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

B2B sales involves one business selling its product to another business. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? For many folks in leadership positions, the answer might be… asking job candidates good questions. The Secret to Better Sales Hires as You Scale.

Sales Hiring 80

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting B2B 80

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. Joaquim Lecha | CEO @Typeform.

Scale 134

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 134

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. So just looking around from the inside, you can learn a lot about how great companies are scaled.

Sales Hiring 190

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Sales Enablement 190

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The struggle to convince your senior leadership team to invest in customer experience has always been there for decades. According to a Pega Systems study , a mere 35% of businesses have a C-level sponsor for CX, and in 36% of companies, director level or below executive leads them. The reasons that make getting buy-in so tough.

Leadership 21

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale 21

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

Underperforming Technical Team 179

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Innovation Startup 179

Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Add to that the dramatic pace of business, and it can be very difficult to put the right people in place. Business Moves at the Speed of Light. Business Moves at the Speed of Light. Is it a lack of leadership? These factors can quickly derail a sales team. Some roles don’t work if you have a bad hire.

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Compensation Underperforming Technical Team 76

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The choices were simple: dive headlong into a decade’s worth of digital transformation , or go out of business. Businesses must take a step back, evaluate their software investments, and rework their implementations. And for 90% of customers, businesses are failing at onboarding. Define your core business objectives.

Investment 94

Investment Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 94

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

Know why you’re training your team before you start. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. Keith: Many people know of Sandler sales and sales leadership training. around the country, around the world, their focus is going to be leadership at all levels.

Scale 104

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Consulting 104

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. Atypical in our world, but Neha scaled the business to well over $1M in ARR before raising funding. You should be.

Scale 200

Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 200

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). The question now is, how big should CS organizations be, and what’s the best way to staff and scale its success?

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Sales Hiring Interviewing 98

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. It really gets to the point where you say, “We have the opportunity to scale this. CFO is on it.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Hubert Palan , founder and CEO of Productboard.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. Similarly, the startup leadership are usually the best people to figure out the type of an integration needed between their app and the billing platform.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Head to outreach.io/saleshacker.

Underperforming Technical Team 68

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 68

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The results of the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, based on the perspectives and insights of more than 1,000 Customer Success leaders, are in. The good news is Customer Success teams are growing both in size and budget. The bad news is they’re not growing enough. Many teams remain woefully underfunded.

VP of Engineering 52

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

Prior to their IPO in April 2019, PagerDuty had raised funding from some of the best in the business including a16, Bessemer, Meritech, Harrison Metal and Elad Gil to name a few. How can one be supportive but also drive towards business objectives? In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with?

Scale 179

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Branding 179