OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Measuring tech debt.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Measuring tech debt.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s one of those facts of startup life that is easy to overlook, but the success and growth of companies can be deeply intertwined with the technology they use in their stack, and I’d like to explain how that has been the case with Intercom and Ember. This time we’ll construct a text node and insert it, that’s static.

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Kellblog

JUNE 4, 2023

About three years ago, I had a conversation with an old friend that led to a post, Ten Pearls of Enterprise Software Startup Wisdom from My Friend Mark Tice. In that (quite popular) post, I shared Mark’s top ten list of mistakes that enterprise software startups make in sales and go-to-market. Don’t do this. starter kits).

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. All startups are screwed up. All startups are screwed up. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats.

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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? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2022

Good companies vs. bad companies [22:48]. Outreach allows you to commit to accurate sales forecasting, replace manual process with real time guidance, and unlock actionable customer intelligence that guides you and your team to win more often. Well, if you haven’t, your sales team should be in one soon. Ask questions.

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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. And had the opportunity, my first startup experience was at Prosper.

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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? They begin by quickly covering common pitfalls in decision-making, then share specific tools not to do and to do, including how to operationalize good decision hygiene into teams. Good decision, bad outcome — that would be bad luck.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 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. Tracking user interactions, from button clicks to form submissions, provides data to inform UI improvements and feature development.

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Software Review Engagement Technical Review Systems Review 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies.

Scale 102

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Executives’ jobs are highly focused on motivating their team members to be as growth-minded as possible. One of their key goals is “dependent upon the collective energy, intelligence, and contributions of all of our team members.”. At Venngage, we believe in winning and losing together, as a team. Go Back to Basics.

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Social Media Construction Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team 96

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

JANUARY 20, 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. Userlane features for feature adoption Teams use Userlane to ditch the stress of manual onboarding.

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Software Review Technical Review Pricing Systems Review 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 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. Userlane’s cons As with any tool, weighing its strengths and weaknesses is essential. Great team!

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Choose the right one for your SaaS startup. Skills for SaaS Sales Team. SaaS Sales team compensation . SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

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. When launching a startup or adding a new product, common advice is to start with a minimum viable product (MVP). But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach.

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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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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. the night before it was to IPO). It’s a bit of a chicken-egg thing.

Product Marketing 80

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 80

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

276: Liat Bycel is VP of Customer Engagement @ Airtable, the startup that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power to organise anything. 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.

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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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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 195

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? Loving our podcast content? Does one have to move to enterprise? Does it have to be in person?

Scale 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Emilie : So, yes.

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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

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

” I booked a one-way ticket here, showed up, realized I had no idea what the hell I was doing, so I figured I should work at a startup before starting my own thing. Atrium is a law firm for startups. So I wanted to solve some of the problems that I saw in legal for technology companies and startups. Alyson F.:

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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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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? Here’s what Gillian talks about: How to build a CSM team.

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

A couple of them our team did. This is so trIue because I'm currently working at a call center and feel trapped, emotionally unstable, weak , I'm driving myself crazy and I don't want to talk to anyone. After about a year and a half I was offered a transfer to sales for the Apple online store team. I feel so alone I need help!

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel. Guessing is a bad strategy. survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio.

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Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

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.

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VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. And a lot of that early founding team came from ExactTarget lineage.

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VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Working with over 800 startups, many of which I’ve formed personal relationships with, has taught me a lot about what actually moves the needle to improve retention. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey.

Retention 52

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. The difference between these two founders are, if you’re comparing these two, founder market fit and whether a team follows the founders. What does this mean?

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Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 145

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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