FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? That episode was with me and Mark interviewing Annie, and was titled “Innovating in Bets” — as is perhaps also one of the signature themes of this podcast. Good decision, bad outcome — that would be bad luck.

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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? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. It became a part of our interview questions. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team?

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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? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Bob. Why is this? What are the drivers of its death? Harry Stebbings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. They become all about sales and learning sales and scaling sales.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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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.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Jake is an interesting guy with a lot of really interesting ideas about brands and about scaling organizations. Now, before we get to the interview, we have sponsors and you need to hear about them. We’re on iTunes.

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User Pilot

APRIL 25, 2024

We cut straight to practical, usable examples you can immediately incorporate into your user research or interviews. Userpilot is an all-in-one solution for product teams that allows you to build bespoke in-app surveys with open-ended, Likert scale, and multiple choice questions (among other things) without any coding.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The first is Chorus.ai , the leading conversation intelligence platform for high growth sales teams. Outreach supports sales reps by enabling them to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. This same information can be used to construct your persona. Some people completely dismantle groups with tens of thousand of members because of poor engagement. Step #5: Choose a Prize and Develop a Promotion Strategy.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bring your feelings, gut instinct, experience, and constructive emotion into the boardroom and sit at the table. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. If you do something constructive with your doubt, and use it to advance yourself, it can be an asset. Invest in your development internally and externally.

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User Pilot

APRIL 27, 2023

Thanks to that, you can identify ways to improve user experience and make informed product development decisions. Product teams use in-app surveys to conduct user research, personalize user experience , assess satisfaction levels, measure customer loyalty , identify new feature ideas, and better understand user behavior.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. So once you have your journey to find and you’ve set up your culture and you’re starting to scale that organization. Is this related to a new service program we rolled out and that could be either good or bad, right?

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

Justin Kan : It seems like kind of a renewed emphasis or maybe a new emphasis on mental health and building a different kind of company, like one that’s maybe a little bit more balanced and focused on kind of the holistic experience of being a member of the team is something that’s intrinsic to both you guys’s companies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Paul: Yeah. Some of this cut deep.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. Kyle was in charge of creating the Austin, Texas sales team @ Dropbox, what were some of his biggest lessons when it comes to moving sales outside of HQ? What worked? What did not work?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. ” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Today we are interviewing an executive and life coach, somebody who has personally helped change my mindset. Sam Jacobs: Today we are interviewing an executive and life coach, somebody who has personally helped change my mindset. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Sam’s Corner [39:54].

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box?

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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.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Tracking user interactions, from button clicks to form submissions, provides data to inform UI improvements and feature development. Google developed it to evaluate the quality of the user experience. Userlane’s cons As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential. Great team!

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Tracking user interactions, from button clicks to form submissions, provides data to inform UI improvements and feature development. Google developed it to evaluate the quality of the user experience. Userlane’s cons As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential. Great team!

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Tracking user interactions, from button clicks to form submissions, provides data to inform UI improvements and feature development. Google developed it to evaluate the quality of the user experience. Userlane’s cons As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential. Great team!

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. Our Advocacy team brought it to our RAD team, who had also seen it come up in the NPS.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Before Assist, Liat spent 6 years at Twitter where she first hand saw their hyper-growth, managing a team of 40 across New York and SF and also Liat achieved 102% to quota on average every year. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Liat Bycel or you can jump to the transcript of Jason’s interview with Loren.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. We recorded a free-flowing conversation for the podcast, where we flipped the script and interviewed each other about everything from how to stay relevant in marketing to strategies for digging into tricky metrics. How to scale marketing teams. Short on time?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. Loving our podcast content? What changes? *

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