SaaSHolic

JULY 31, 2023

” Bookkeeping, planning, and modeling are skills and activities that someone in the founding team should perform at a good-enough level. It just so happens that these CEOs typically prioritize pressing operational needs (a sales rep, a developer, etc.), At this stage, a startup doesn’t need a CFO. Keep it simple.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 52

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. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

Underperforming Technical Team 223

Underperforming Technical Team compliance Development Customer Support 223

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

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). Know your forever user.

Scale 155

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 155

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

Software Review 136

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? So everything you do at a startup you’re treating it like an experiment, right? More along the lines of Fortune 500 companies.

Underperforming Technical Team 164

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 164

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). Team expertise. Data security and compliance. We secured $100k worth of credits through the AWS Startup program.

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) 52

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

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

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. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. A final comment on purpose: It should come from your team. Even kids and pets.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

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 256

VP of Engineering Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 256

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. Claire Johnson: If you don’t know us, I’d love to change that.

Scale 119

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Path analysis. AI analytics. Dashboards.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Path analysis. AI analytics. Dashboards.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Path analysis. AI analytics. Dashboards.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Path analysis. AI analytics. Dashboards.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. Userpilot's artificial intelligence empowers teams and product managers who don't have a formal background in data science or statistics. Path analysis. AI analytics. Dashboards.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

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

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 133

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vertical SaaS solutions are tailored for specific industries, addressing niche needs with in-depth customization and compliance with industry standards. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point. What is Vertical SaaS? Consider the following.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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 wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 104

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Offloaded Sales Tax And Compliance Management At FastSpring, we act as the merchant of record for all transactions on your site, making us responsible for collecting and remitting taxes on your behalf. EJ Brown 06:10 I think there’s a common idea that startup culture in particular.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

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.

compliance 52

compliance Software Underperforming Technical Team Technology 52

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 133

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 133

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Typically, B2B issues can be more complex, require the collaboration of a lot more departments within the company, and are often in direct dialogue with the consumer, rather than a buying team or committee. A few years later, joined a startup.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

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 133

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors Scale 133

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021.

Mobile 40

Mobile Marketing Growth Hacking Technical Review 40

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 291

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 291

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 154

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

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 162

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 162

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

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

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 83

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 83

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.

Sales Hiring 89

Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 89

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.

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. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

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

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

These additional features can satisfy the needs of some early-stage startup companies, however, most companies end up needing more robust options. Luckily, most developers find it easy to integrate Stripe with most other software (however, you have to pay for each software separately). Read the NotePlan case study here.

Payment Services 120

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 120

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