Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. 82% of business leaders believe that culture is a competitive advantage ( Deloitte , 2016). Development Programs. 6 Elements Of A Strong EX.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Is the content insightful and communicated in a clear and concise manner (this also affects how they will communicate with you)? An analytics agency that is producing good thought leadership content also signifies whether that company is on top of the latest trends, which is needed in fast-evolving fields. A Well-rounded Team.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2020

Your organization has a unique culture. Good or bad, planned or not, it does. And as a leader, it’s your responsibility to lead by example and help shape the company culture. So, how do you know if you’re doing the right things as a leader to make your sales culture an asset, rather than a liability?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

As for Carolyn, prior to joining PagerDuty she spent 5 years as the GM of Method Communications San Francisco Office and before that spent time on the other side of the pond with a close to 7-year stint at Orange as Head of Corporate PR and Head of US Communications. How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Maria : Oh, I’ll take the number one thing to improve your culture. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. Maybe it’s just the wrong company for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort. Sales chops.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

But then people on the sales team started leaving. James’ sales numbers slowed dramatically as he was spending more and more time with the team. And finally, a big account left at renew time as the sales team struggled to come together. There is an allure to promoting someone from within, from your own sales team, to manager.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2022

Scalability is about capability, so businesses need to understand whether they have the capacity to grow and whether their infrastructure and team can accommodate growth. Once you have solidified your company’s vision and have developed a strategic plan on how you will achieve success, don’t get too comfortable.

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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. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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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. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

SaaSy Sales Management runs in-person, public, and private workshops to teach go-to-market SaaS leaders how to produce the best outcome for their company and their people. If you missed episode 94, check it out here: PODCAST 94: Expert Management of a Remote Sales Team w/ Ellie Tamari. What You’ll Learn. Outreach has your back.

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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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me. So I just had this idea.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Matt is a friend of mine, but he’s also the founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 31, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Salsify As a Director of Customer Success, you will supervise, build and expand the existing Customer Success strategy to enable each member of the team to be the best-trusted advisor for the customers.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? How can you ensure seamless collaboration and communication flow between product and customer support? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team? For as long as they possibly can.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Mostly from other departments not communicating with us. A couple of them our team did. This is so trIue because I'm currently working at a call center and feel trapped, emotionally unstable, weak , I'm driving myself crazy and I don't want to talk to anyone. If you have patience and genuinely like people it’s not that bad.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Drift co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres share their insights on steering a company to a $1 billion valuation. Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Later they expanded to serve a larger population of developers as they scaled.”. Upcoming renewal notice.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

There are a few things that can be implemented: Remote Work Strengthen internal communication Allow for part-time positions A flexible/condensed workweek Our environment today has led many employees to rethink the importance of work in their lives and to change their relationship to it. And it’s bite-sized.”

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

There are a few things that can be implemented: Remote Work Strengthen internal communication Allow for part-time positions A flexible/condensed workweek Our environment today has led many employees to rethink the importance of work in their lives and to change their relationship to it. And it’s bite-sized.”

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Why does Bridget believe the best starting point for customer success is “company culture and value”? How does company culture impact the quality of customer success? Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? In practice, what can one do to improve it? Who has done this well?

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Jeff Lawson is the Founder & CEO @ Twilio, the company building the future of communications allowing you to engage customers like never before on voice, SMS, WhatsApp or Video. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Harry Stebbings: Can you guess?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Before taking action to prevent departures, you must meet with each team member and quickly assess the likelihood that they would leave and the potential harm that would result if they do. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As for Ryan, he has spent an incredible 9 years at Okta in numerous different roles starting with running the product marketing team before moving to run the marketing team, leading to his promotion to CMO close to 5 years ago now. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. Ask 10 people to define culture, and you’ll likely get 10 different answers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company reimagining how you approach your most important business agreements with their award-winning e-Sign solution. As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

Mallun Yen : And, you’ve done that with a number of your executive team, and, in fact, most of your executive team are the ones that you hired early on in the day. Eric Yuan: I think that you really need to communicate well before you hire those people. What’s your weakness? You really want them to learn.

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. Customer success expert Lincoln Murphy advises that top-of-list candidates should include companies “ready, willing, and able” to join your ranks. (He

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