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Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)

SaaStr

One of the primary problems that Asthana found — both in his own journey, and the journeys of other founders — was that companies presumed that a product-market fit would take the form of a singular event. Jeff Bezos says that customers are always unhappy; they always want more. Leading the way in an evolving market.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What are the key milestones that go into both, and in different phases of company building — especially pre to post product-market fit?

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13 Customer Discovery Questions to Ask for Valuable Insights

User Pilot

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. To collect the necessary data, you can conduct customer discovery interviews or trigger in-app surveys.

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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

SaaStr

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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Why Customer Success Leaders Aren’t Getting a Seat at the Table

OpenView Labs

But customer success (CS) leaders often drive all departmental improvement off those two numbers. Because they’re stuck with these limited metrics, CS leaders will continue to be second-tier leaders on the exec team (if they’re invited at all). If the customer is using the product, their churn risk is unpredictable.

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5 Types of B2B Customer Insights for SaaS and How to Collect Them [+Best Tools]

User Pilot

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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