Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a saturated market, how do they distinguish themselves? For best practices, integrate it with your other systems, offer flexible plans for optimized cash flow, and ensure data security compliance to industry standards. With so many options on the market, it can be difficult to know what to prioritize in your search.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? I was a C++ developer working on electromigration on a full chip. Anytime I would hire a new product manager into my team, I would tell them you use search all the time.

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VP of Engineering Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 245

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

Throughout all of my experience at early-stage growth companies, there’s been an overarching theme: From inception, it’s the people you attract, hire, train, promote, and “communify” who enable and accelerate your time to market and your customer acquisition and satisfaction. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

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.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 117

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. Adobe Analytics – best for predictive marketing analytics. Let’s dive in! Tableau – the best digital data visualization tool.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. Adobe Analytics – best for predictive marketing analytics. Let’s dive in! Tableau – the best digital data visualization tool.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. Adobe Analytics – best for predictive marketing analytics. Let’s dive in! Tableau – the best digital data visualization tool.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. Adobe Analytics – best for predictive marketing analytics. Let’s dive in! Tableau – the best digital data visualization tool.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. Adobe Analytics – best for predictive marketing analytics. Let’s dive in! Tableau – the best digital data visualization tool.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Unexplained networking issues with latency between our machines that DigitalOcean’s support team never cleared out (this was critical for our Postgres read-replicas lag, Redis instances, and HA in general). We researched the market and discovered many tradeoffs and advantages a new provider could bring to the table.

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K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Loving our podcast content?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Whereas many traditional marketers are only now beginning to mobil-ize their marketing vision , you are part of a club that’s already trailblazing a burgeoning industry. It’s good you got there early, as the potential for reward across the mobile app marketing landscape for the next few years is likely to be huge?—?

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Mobile Marketing Growth Hacking Technical Review 40

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. Like, all of them. just one or two days before Jason unleashed his tweetstorm.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Shanee Ben-Zur | Head of Marketing & Growth @ Crunchbase. Please welcome Invision Studio VP of Product, Ciara Peter , Box Product Management, Senior Director Bela Stepanova , Google Maps Design Director Craig Villamor , and Crunchbase Head of Marketing and Growth. So Bela, you founded the growth team. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I said, “Mother, you’re right” – and I went to the economics faculty and studied marketing. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Scytale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

SOC 2 automation doesn’t simply make SOC 2 compliance easier , for many companies it makes compliance possible. After all, SOC 2 compliance is great to have but often a struggle to achieve. And startups and SMMEs don’t have the resources to spend countless hours on difficult processes, with uncertain outcomes.

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compliance Software Underperforming Technical Team Technology 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 149

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 149

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Allie made her way from the world of Yahoo to founding the game changer of environmental compliance in Mapistry. How does Allie advise other founders on scaling sales teams?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Scale 132

User Pilot

MAY 26, 2024

It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. It enables SaaS teams to leverage real-time user data to build beautiful on-brand experiences, improve user onboarding, and drive product-led growth. Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review AI Search 52

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? ” I’ve never heard that.

Scale 287

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 287

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 159

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. Tax compliance, include calculation, collection, and remittance of VAT and sales taxes. What do you do in all these different scenarios?

Payments 158

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. Your default operating cadence should be to run – it’s important startups don’t compromise on speed.

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Engineering Technical Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 178

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Its lowest Startup pricing plan is competitively priced but the Pro is not so anymore. Its analytics are better-developed than Userflow, but all its plans are more expensive. Just like us, they struggle to pinpoint any major weaknesses of the product. Appcues is another well-rounded adoption platform with advanced functionality.

Software Review 98

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 98

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter! Dreamforce in SF last week for our GP, Max Altschuler.

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Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 92

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

Those developing software for mobile devices or cross-platform use should look for alternatives with mobile support (such as the aforementioned Smartlook). It also helps product teams collect user feedback, streamline onboarding, and gather actionable insights from analytics. Interested in driving product growth without coding?

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B The problem is the sales team. The sales team don’t know how to sell the product. It’s a familiar story.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them.

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Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

User Pilot

MAY 22, 2024

It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. The solution makes it possible for teams to onboard, engage, and retain users without needing coding skills to create these in-app experiences. Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Mobile 52

User Pilot

MARCH 16, 2024

It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. The platform is built keeping the compliance, scalability, and security needs of enterprises in mind. It also helps product teams collect user feedback, streamline onboarding, and gather actionable insights from analytics.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

MAY 26, 2024

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. Userlane for customer feedback Userlane enables teams to collect user feedback and enhance product experiences through basic survey functionality. Cons of Userlane As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Systems Review 52

SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

How do you scale SaaS startups from the seed stage to mature industry leaders? Wish you had a SaaS startup checklist to guide you on your journey to IPO? Founder of SaaS Gurus , Anthony Nitsos, showed us the personal blueprint he uses to advise SaaS startups. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships.

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SaaS Scale Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting 76