Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. We recently sat down with Maggie to chat about all things sales – from laying down a solid foundation to hiring the right people and, finally, scaling the team into hyper-growth. Look for the team players.

Scale 118

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

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. Just looking at our user base, they really were that sweet spot of ideal customer profile.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. Just this week, we announced a new group of apps that users can add to the Intercom Inbox to provide faster and deeper customer interactions. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

Scale 190

Scale Branding Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise 190

OPEXEngine

JUNE 8, 2021

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Blake, a successful salesperson, visits the real estate sales team and gives them a blistering motivational speech that has gone down in history as one of the best of all time. It must support many if not most of the goals of the enterprise. A-B-C,” he says as he points to each letter.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Sales SaaS 52

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

A year earlier we’d launched the MVP of the model allowing SMB customers to input a credit card to get access to the platform, but we hadn’t had a chance to dedicate time or resources to optimizing a proper SaaS onboarding funnel. Due to this style, the customers that we converted were very loyal.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 110

Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 110

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

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). Like, if you don’t know <Yeah.>

Product Marketing 78

Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 78

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition to reducing CAC, no-code growth reduces customer support and success costs and increases customer satisfaction. In addition to being truly no-code, the tool you choose should offer basic UI patterns, support user segmentation , provide analytics features, and integrate with other tools. Get in-depth analytics.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Outsourced Development 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No-code growth allows SaaS companies to massively reduce their CAC , operational costs, customer support, and success costs while boosting customer satisfaction. WalkMe is a cloud-based software that lets you create product tours to guide customers from the very beginning. Cons of Pendo? – Parita P.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team 52

Upscope

JANUARY 4, 2021

What's even more interesting is how bots are starting to integrate with on-page onboarding and guidance systems to show the customer how to do something. Intercom developed one of those typical guidance systems you see when you sign up to a new website. You could ask them to book a demo with your sales team and some people prefer that.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Scale 52

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No-code growth allows SaaS companies to massively reduce their CAC , operational costs, customer support, and success costs while boosting customer satisfaction. This contributes to higher satisfaction from the users in general – as they tend to prefer to self-serve rather than talk to support. – Raeann F.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. But let’s step back a minute, you’ve got three reps on your team already, doing whatever revenue, four, and you want to triple your revenue. Whatever you do, hire two.

Sales Hiring 290

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 290

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. Reviewing customer support activity. To identify recurring problems in support tickets, chat logs, and email threads. software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem. Conducting funnel analysis with Userpilot.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Software Review Churn SaaS 59

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. Loving our podcast content? * What does Krish mean when he says, “In SaaS, you either sell to one of 2 customer profiles”?

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. When is the right time for founders to think about building out their first exec team? How can you develop a winning culture? Pssst Loving our podcast content?

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 155

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. Liat Bycel: Yeah, I think that career development conversation should be an ongoing conversation. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Underperforming Technical Team 156