OpenView Labs

JANUARY 8, 2021

What’s your biggest weakness? Great interview questions tell you who a person is, what motivates them, how they think and solve problems, and what they’d be like as a teammate. To help us all conduct better interviews, we asked some of the smartest leaders in SaaS to share their favorite questions. It’s just not productive.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Scale 75

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Ryan theorizes that there’s not enough data out there to get a more accurate picture of SaaS churn because it’s not something most companies want to be very transparent about. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 141

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future. And when there are 30 people it will change again.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

High growth companies like Airtable, Figma, Notion, or Github all have revenue as a top of mind business milestone. In fact, out of a sample of 40 growth stage companies, 50% said revenue growth was their #1 north star metric, according to research led by Lenny Rachitsky for Future. And when there are 30 people it will change again.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Their CEO will join us at SaaSr Scale 2021 on December 15 to talk about using data to get to 10,000 SMB customers! I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. From those nine interviews, I received four offers. 7 Tips to get 7,000 Customers.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 260

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. You can access that data set once you contribute your own information on a blinded basis. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Ryan Walsh.

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Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Underperforming Technical Team Management Interviewing Scale 85

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 89

ChurnZero

JUNE 18, 2021

Customer exit interviews, when properly structured and executed, provide a unique chance to dig deep and discover valuable information which can lead to actionable churn-preventing insights. Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher, joined us for a webinar to discuss how to: Conduct killer customer exit interviews. Q&A Recap.

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Interviewing Churn Scale Underperforming Technical Team 98

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

When used correctly, data can powerfully enrich sales and marketing efforts and help any business fuel growth. But all too often, companies fall into the trap of using partial or old data to drive major decisions. Companies commonly make the mistake of using expired or partial data from a small subset of users to justify big decisions.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

He provides an in-depth guide to driving revenue growth at your company and what to expect at each stage. Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Thirty, 50% revenue growth. How fast you’re growing revenue.

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Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 211

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams. Leverage upselling and cross-selling to boost your revenue.

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Scale Scaling SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 90

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Whether it’s greater efficiency, increased revenue, cost savings, or achieving compliance, every customer has a reason for purchasing your product. I recommend you interview customers. I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams.

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Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Almost every week, Iceberg RevOps’ founder Taft Love gets messages from executives and CEOs at growth-stage companies asking for help with their first revenue operations hire. Related: Is a Revenue Operations Career Right for You? Second, there’s no such thing as a typical career path in revenue operations.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Consulting 71

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Growing a sales team isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A players in a room and getting them to start selling your product. If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. and many more to talk about how they’ve built sales teams from the ground up.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 156

User Pilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Implement this user research process to gather data that’s exhaustive and actionable: Define your main objective and build a hypothesis. Start collecting data. Book a demo to discuss your needs with our team and get tailored solutions. Taking this targeted approach ensures the data you obtain is relevant and actionable.

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User Experience Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 91

ChurnZero

MAY 13, 2022

ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Abby Hammer joined The CXChronicles podcast to share how she’s used the four mainstay CX pillars —team, tools, process, and feedback—to build a high-performing Customer Success organization from the ground up and turn it into the most operationalized part of the business. Episode highlights.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scale Finance 98

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 81

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

How to measure customer behavior with data analytics. TL;DR Customer analytics or customer behavior analytics is the practice of collecting and analyzing customer data to make better business decisions. Benefits of analyzing customer data: Understand customer behavior patterns. This data isn’t just for top-level strategy.

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Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Churn 89

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Dropbox just hit one billion dollars in annual revenue. 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? Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 260

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.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 118

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 223

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 129

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. The same is true of data - data informs decision-making, but doesn’t replace it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

GetUplift

JANUARY 16, 2019

I’m not gonna pumpkin-spice coat it: interviewing customers is hard. Prompting vulnerable sharing from complete strangers is not something most people consider fun… Which is why I’ve heard just about every excuse for not interviewing customers: I don’t have any customers. Customer interviews don’t give quantitative data.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review 66

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales. A data-driven framework for scaling.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. Believe it or not, it’s not rocket science: they perform customer interviews. Types of customer interviews. Depending on what you want to achieve, customer interviews can be divided into two groups: 1.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2018

Sales interviews are nerve-wracking. Yet as a hiring manager, seeking to build the best sales team in the industry, there are a few things I’ve observed that separate the good from the great—the things that distinguish good interviewees from those who actually end up landing an offer.

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Sales Hiring Interviewing Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 69

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Concept testing helps to build customer relationships, understand customer needs , and gather market research data to drive decision-making. You can ask users for feedback on pricing to find the sweet spot between the most revenue and the highest amount users would pay. It’s about showing them their opinions matter.

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing usage data to get an objective and unbiased picture of user behavior in-app. Product analytics is a data-driven approach to understanding customer behavior and product usage.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Churn User Experience 94

Totango

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team. What Is a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review 91

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 91

User Pilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. A good growth strategy is also data-driven. This means collecting feedback data to measure customer satisfaction.

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Product Marketing Marketing Social Media Scale 88

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Getting access to the crown jewels and highly sensitive data as a four-person startup is hard, but if it’s a segregated piece of data and a pilot.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 239

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Creating a positive first impression with a warm welcome message and data-backed onboarding. Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. It is a feeling of confidence that your product will meet their needs and protect their data. Why is user trust important in UX?

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