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. Regular, open career conversations can be an effective strategy for this. Once you’ve had the first conversation, it’s up to you and your team member to decide how frequent or formal these meetings should be.

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Development Engineering 223

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Cold outreach strategies that generate engagement [18:02]. 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. Also, a strategy that I’m not sure I would recommend.

Underperforming Technical Team 69

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 69

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.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Developer platform: a business where developers can build businesses on top of the business’s software and charge customers. The end customer is usually not aware this company even exists e.g. Stripe, Twilio, Amazon Web Services. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. Take them from the marketplace team.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

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. Turns out, the candidate was scared, rather than excited, about their exit strategy.

Sales Hiring 95

Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 95

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Technical Review 173

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?

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

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.

Scale 173

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 173

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. Loving our podcast content? * First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

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.

Customer Success 19

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 19

Kellblog

AUGUST 13, 2019

The problem is that unless you are a tier 1 rockstar, investors are not going to want to back the company simply because you’ve arrived. Most investors will want you to have about a year in the seat before considering investing. moving both feet). N th -place Vendors (for all N>=3). First-time, non-founder CEOs. ”). [3]

Software Review 76

Software Review Startup Sales Hiring Software 76

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Under Rizzetta’s leadership, N6A has been ranked as one of the 50 most powerful agencies in the United States by the Observer, PRWeek’s Best Places to Work and the Top Company Cultures in America by Entrepreneur magazine. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire?

Scale 106

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 106

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. Considering an IPO or an exit strategy.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How have you altered and developed as a CEO do you think?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. We need to consider it as a capital investment and make it a result-driven initiative. And it’s bite-sized.”

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Company Culture Compensation 10

SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. We need to consider it as a capital investment and make it a result-driven initiative. And it’s bite-sized.”

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Company Culture Compensation 10

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. This way, I don’t have to worry about anybody else taking my big idea, ending up in a bad partnership, or getting sued because of misinformation.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Business Sales Hiring Scale 128

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Different factors determine loyalty: where B2C SaaS users may prioritize values such as price or user experience, B2B customers place more emphasis on return on investment. These considerations mean that B2B SaaS brands must develop industry-appropriate strategies to manage customer loyalty effectively.

B2B 108

B2B B2C Underperforming Technical Team Business 108

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? *

Underperforming Technical Team 122

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 122

Neil Patel

MARCH 21, 2023

We all have a great team and support network behind us. If you don’t respect your partner(s), your team won’t last long. Fill your team with people who have great character and you’re well on your way to success. Your customers’ complaints are how you identify your business’s weaknesses.

Entrepreneurship 92

Entrepreneurship Underperforming Technical Team Entertainment Company Culture 92

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

Sales Hiring 194

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 194

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 132

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Email beats all other marketing channels and can generate $37 for every $1 you invest. Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. Before you jump straight to the top email marketing companies and pick one to work with, it’s a good idea to pause first. Great content is the core of any serious email strategy.

Marketing 111

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 111

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

And while strategy is incredibly important, considering the cost of every piece of that strategy can be a game-changer to your bottom line. The SMB Decision: In-House vs. Outsourced Sales Development. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation.

Outsourcing Services 76

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 76

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. How to build an engineering team. And that may be the point where you start to think, what about my partner strategy? Missed the session? Jon Herstein. That was 2011.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 132

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. The second is employees.

Sales Hiring 120

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 120

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Harry Stebbings: Sorry, this is so unfair of me to go off schedule like this, but when you think back on only possible in the cloud, I think through every investment of mine is unbundling or bundling and try and very carefully be aware of which camp we’re in and why. In 2012, no one took Amazon seriously, really.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. We raised 30 million bucks, we can expand the team. I’ve worked with hundreds of teams on this.

Scale 210

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 210

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds weaknesses in your system before they cause problems. Dylan Serota , Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service.

Education 108

Education Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 108

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Technology Enables Strategy; Doesn’t Define It. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding. The Cost of Bad Fit Customers: The $1.2M

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Companies often worry about whether to go horizontal or vertical, how does Liat personally think about this choice? Product roadmap?

Sales Hiring 109

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 109