Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Key Performance Indicators are a series of measurements which allow a company to track the success of their operations in relation to achieving their goals or objectives. They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. Reviews of teammates’ conversations.

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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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Our team is in Room 111.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

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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.

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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. The stage of scaling from $10 million to $100 million ARR may seem like a daunting task, but it is an exciting one. Turning a vision into reality.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

How do you scale SaaS startups from the seed stage to mature industry leaders? To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Financial Core.

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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. In 2010, he became one of the Co-Founders of Warehouse Investimentos, a prominent Brazilian VC company. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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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. Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering, has been at the forefront of codifying and scaling this philosophy over the past few years.

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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? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

Scale 128

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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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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

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.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. The Building Blocks of a Scalable Company. Company Culture. A Cautionary Tale. Who is your buyer?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. A company’s values sit at the heart of its mission. That doesn’t make them bad people. Most valuable employees will want to grow and develop new skills.

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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?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * How does Carolyn think startups and larger companies can replace the leads that are lost from having no events in a COVID-19 world?

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Or perhaps you may need to leverage data to scale an existing marketing channel. A Well-rounded Team. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative. Syncing With Your Team. A Solid Client List.

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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.

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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. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. Where does culture begin to breakdown?

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Unicorn companies often need to scale quickly to meet the demands of their rapidly growing customer base. 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. Lesson 6: Pivoting isn’t a bad thing.

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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

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. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? Does it differ from traditional dev teams?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 9, 2019

Too many people operate under the false assumption that the manager is the de facto linchpin to growing and developing the people within an organization. We charge managers with making sure their people get the right feedback, have detailed development plans, and progress in their career. Discover the Culture of Feedback.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

The session that I’m talking about is basically about the board dynamic and about how to survive this valley of death and bring not just yourself and your team but your extended team, including your board, across that until you cross the $1 million mark, and then the $10 million mark and keep going beyond. There we go.

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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?

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

In This Episode We Discuss: * How Parker made his way into the world of startups and SaaS, came to found Zenefits and what was that a-ha moment for the founding of his most recent company, Rippling? What does Parker do with regards to operational scaling that is unconventional but works? What do you look for in those hires?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. At what scale does that become impossible? Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Why is this?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Logical Customer Segmentation: The Key to Scaling Customer Success. 7 Ways Customer Success drives Company Valuation. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Do I have the right team? And also because some people are good at different phases of the company. And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. So second question, do I have the right team? But your team needs to be full.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Sam has over 16 years of experience in consulting, product management, and leading customer success teams. Bloomfire allows teams to improve productivity and customer centricity by creating a self-service knowledge base. If implemented well, it will have mutually beneficial outcomes for the company and customers.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Editor’s note: This article is by Dan Slagen, a four-time startup executive specializing in scaling global go-to-market functions from early stage to $100M+ in ARR. Successfully working with the CEO of a growing startup requires that you perform at a level you might not be used to from past positions, company cultures or expectations.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

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. Managing primarily by metrics would be a sad way to build a company and work with other people. I feel so alone I need help!

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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? Is there a customer success playbook that I have to develop?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect, every time, enabling personalization at scale, previously unthinkable. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire? How do you evaluate talent? Walk us through that.

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