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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

How do product managers identify market gaps? TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Before implementing the ideas to fill market gaps, validate them thoroughly.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers).

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Three Plays HubSpot Uses to Arm Sales Reps for Success

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

In my sales enablement role at HubSpot I'm truly privileged to partner with over 100 sales professionals that are at the top of their game and only want to get better. Working with sales reps that want to succeed and push each other to do better is a joy. Revenue trumps all else and sales enablement has to contribute to that.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

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 Podcast #413 with SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman: “How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Steps”

SaaStr

Let’s say you’re 22 years old and you don’t have a lot of money, well, you’re likely going to see very few opportunities to invest, and most of those opportunities are going to be bad. You can launch new products, you can be better at recruiting, you can speak at SaaStr and so much more. He’s incredible.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear

A “team of one” is the fastest, most efficient team, as measured by “output per person.” Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. A team of one is brittle, but fast. — optimize myopically for speed-to-market. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * Or hey, we missed our sales numbers last quarter, it’s got to be a management issue.