SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Development Part-Time VPE 183

Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points.

Retention 108

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Churn 108

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2023

Everyone wants “multiple revenue streams”, even if that means doing none of them as well as they could if they focused. If a VP of Sales has a $500k+ OTE and a big team to manage, does it even make senses to sell courses on the side? I don’t wish to see more people in increasingly bad financial standing this year.

Underperforming Technical Team 283

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 283

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. How do you do that?

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 96

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

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. Azure ML revenue alone has increased more than 100 percent for five quarters in a row 4. Microsoft’s Ability to Cross-Sell its Suite is Driving Dominance in Many Categories GitHub is now home to 100 million developers.

Azure 246

Azure Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 246

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Revenue Operations is at the forefront of a paradigm shift — to view the buyer’s journey as a seamless thread across multiple people, systems, and value propositions. This involves driving more new logo and renewal revenue, lowering customer acquisition cost, and increasing forecasting predictability. Simple right?

Technical Review 121

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Engineering 121

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. The first hire after six AEs was a senior hire, Ashley Kelly, as Senior Director of Sales Development.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 171

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. 40% of businesses did not meet revenue targets in 2020. 70% of businesses claim that social referrals convert faster than any other type of lead.

Sales Recruiting 125

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 125

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

And with this, business’ want a consolidated rev tech stack with deeper capabilities infused with AI. So that has many of us questioning which direction we should be heading toward in our modern day revenue tech stack? Which AI tools are going to make revenue operators’ lives immensely easier?

AI 78

AI Revenue Scale ChatGPT 78

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 124

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

More business people than engineers. Force revenue generating employees to pay for themselves. Learn about your investors previous bad investments (this could determine your fate!). #2 Remember, you’re the one who gives investors power over your business. #3 Causes: Weak previous relationship. Too many nice things.

Underperforming Technical Team 177

Underperforming Technical Team Startup Engineering Retention 177

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. It keeps you and your team on the same page, with a clear vision and a good understanding of your audience and goals.

Product Marketing 92

Product Marketing Marketing Social Media Scale 92

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

Underperforming Technical Team 275

Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Outsourced Development Finance 275

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

SaaS Payments 93

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 93

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. Building some level of repeatability in closing at least a handful of deals is the fuel that drives the entire business forward.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

InsightSquared

MARCH 5, 2021

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. In this series, , he will share his experiences, providing other CROs and revenue leaders insights from his lessons learned. This piece will focus on the importance of activity capture.

Forecasting 62

Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Data 62

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

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Product-led companies face a long road as they attempt to manifest themselves from having abstract vision to millions in revenue. That’s the one fundamental fact on which we can base our businesses. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

Underperforming Technical Team 243

Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 243

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2022

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7% of sales teams hit their goals. But each member of your sales team has unique strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Enablement Construction Forecasting 98

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. If you prefer, you can use this ?? “It’s

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Our financial operations platform is designed to meet the unique financial challenges of B2B SaaS, including billing, subscription management, revenue and expense recognition, and SaaS analytics. Empower your inside sales team by automating the hardest parts of outbound calling. Instant live customer conversations!

Scale 214

Scale Underperforming Technical Team B2B AI 214

OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams. Don’t think VP of Sales — think “Revenue Engineer”. Make sure you understand the economics of your business.

Sales Hiring 110

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Startup 110

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. Over time, Instacart planned to build out an advertising revenue stream with CPG companies, offering them effective performance marketing with a primed, high-intent audience.

Marketplace as a Service 142

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 142

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue. Gusto now serves 100,000 small businesses.

Scale 179

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 179

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

Sales Hiring 123

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Management 123

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 199

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I’ll explain how I think about these decisions as a product leader and give more context on the journey of developing entirely new products inside a company. Let’s say your second product builds a new product that is growing healthily with a smaller group of customers than the core business at a much lower price point. Amazon on Alexa?

Underperforming Technical Team 63

Underperforming Technical Team Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 63

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. . Customer Success teams typically answer the same questions over and over again as they gain new clients. Retention comes from that.”

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers. Now, this story itself explains why many businesses fail to make the conversion to marketplace.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. So if you’re trying to fit your business model into what SaaS looks like in the U.S.

Development Team Review 224

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 224

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing 10 times larger isn’t about magic. Read more to find out how!

Underperforming Technical Team 188

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Software Development 188

Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Growing your business requires constant optimization. Wes Bush reveals the growth process he uses to grow his business. At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. Start by analyzing your business.

Underperforming Technical Team 69

Underperforming Technical Team Development Churn Metrics 69