OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

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). The most important ones were: Flexibility in auto-scaling compute resources. Team expertise. Managed databases.

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) 52

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

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For best practices, integrate it with your other systems, offer flexible plans for optimized cash flow, and ensure data security compliance to industry standards. This is often due to misconceptions that they will have to develop this functionality from scratch (more on this later).

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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.

VP of Engineering 242

VP of Engineering Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 242

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?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

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. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale. There we have it.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. We’ll handle all the hard stuff, such as localizing checkout, billing and ecommerce compliance, and tax management — and let you focus on building and growing your SaaS business.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Thanks to SaaS solutions, businesses can easily scale their workflows, eliminating the need to install programs locally or pay for expensive licenses. Vertical SaaS solutions are tailored for specific industries, addressing niche needs with in-depth customization and compliance with industry standards. What is Vertical SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 132

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 132

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. These companies can scale really efficiently. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders.

Payment Solutions 151

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 151

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? He’s the only CEO that ever called.

Scale 296

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 296

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?

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Scale 132

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. What do users say about Hotjar? Does Hotjar fit your budget?

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team 52

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.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 178

A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” What are the fundamental forces that transform organizations at scale? A team of one is brittle, but fast. Why do they never succeed? Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

Scale 61

Scale Government Scaling Sales Recruiting 61

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. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation.

Sales Hiring 90

Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 90

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

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 166

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 166

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

TL;DR Mixpanel is a simple and powerful product analytics tool that allows product teams to track and analyze in-app product engagement. It allows your team to see every moment of the customer experience clearly, so you can make changes that work. Let’s dive in! In addition, it lets you explore data freely without using SQL.

Software Review 52

Software Review SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Technical 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.

SaaS 76

SaaS Scale Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting 76

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

APRIL 28, 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. Chameleon is a product adoption platform. You’re on a budget.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

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. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release.

Data 182

Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

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 94

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team 94

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this? Right, Renaud?

Payments 124

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 124

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

Budget Constraints : While Userlane offers a plethora of features suitable for established enterprises or growing companies, it might be beyond the reach of early-stage startups with limited funds. It also helps product teams collect user feedback, streamline onboarding, and gather actionable insights from analytics.

Software Review 52

Software Review SaaS Technical Review Onboarding 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

I hosted Elad on the podcast for a conversation that ranged from the key themes of his new book to scaling a healthy culture and ins and outs of mergers and acquisitions. Obviously, each startup is unique, and the context of a startup matters a lot, but you tend to have the same questions like: “How do I hire general counsel?

Sales Hiring 120

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 120

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. What makes this platform even better is the fact that it offers no-code features that make it suitable for non-technical teams. It can be a roadblock when your team members lack technical expertise, leaving you dependent on developers.

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Onboarding Technical Review 52

User Pilot

MARCH 16, 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. Chameleon is a product adoption platform.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: That’s great.

Payment Methods 199

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 199

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Churn Systems Review 52

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. It also helps product teams collect user feedback, streamline onboarding, and gather actionable insights from analytics. Similarly, you can share Session Replays with other team members.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52