SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Guru lets your team capture information instantly, wherever it surfaces, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, Microsoft Outlook and Teams, and more, without ever leaving their workflow. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior?

Development Team Review 177

Development Team Review Software Review Management Sales Hiring 177

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. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From Facebook to Microsoft, there is a massive trend to seek out tiny teams of five or less, buy them, and use the technology and talent to gain a competitive edge. Over the last couple of years, there have been clear trends in why big companies are choosing to invest in these small teams and use them as part of their growth strategy.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 145

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

In todays competitive software market, forward-thinking trade and field service platforms are no longer asking if they should modernize their payment infrastructure, theyre working diligently to source the right payments partner to implement innovative solutions before their competitors beat them to the punch.

Payments 100

Payments Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. These five root causes are ultimately failures of the sales process and sit within the control of the sales team. In your deal reviews, ask the following questions: 1.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 110

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Why your sales team is losing deals in 2022. So where exactly should B2B enterprises focus their efforts when it comes to helping their salespeople? . Recent Gartner research suggests that 75% of B2B sales organizations will adopt AI tools by 2025 to better analyze data and further develop best practices. . The bottom line.

Scale 123

Scale Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Balderton Capital on a part-time basis to work with the firm and its portfolio companies on topics related to enterprise software, strategy, go-to-market, marketing, and SaaS metrics. You know, my usual stuff. As Steve Jobs said: “ learn continuously, there’s always one more thing to learn.”

Venture Capital 127

Venture Capital Development Team Review Software Review Blockchain 127

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 98

InsightSquared

MARCH 19, 2020

Sales teams across the country are being forced into remote work situations in response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, for some extra guidance, here are some best practices for managing a fully remote sales team from our very own sales leaders. . From Peter Barris, Enterprise Sales Leader at InsightSquared. Stay in Touch.

Development Team Review 77

Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Management Sales 77

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

TThe SEO research tool, SEMrush, revealed backlinks account for as much as five SEO top 10 ranking factors: Due to how essential links are to rankings and traffic, you’ll find a host of companies promising to help you generate backlinks at the click of a button. You want a team that knows the best strategies and tactics that work today.

Development Team Review 109

Development Team Review Acquisition Outsourced Development Content Marketing 109

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Over 3 million Apollo users, including rapidly growing enterprise ones like Mutiny, use Apollo’s lead database, multi-channel outreach, call recording, and analytics, to grow revenue and streamline busy work. If your sales team has 20 plus reps, we’re confident Apollo could be a game changer for you. Brought to you by Apollo.

Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hiring Scale Development Team Review AI Search 114

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2024

Jennifer Li is being promoted to GP where she will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infrastructure and horizontal SaaS. Jennifer joined us 6 years ago as an investment partner, transitioning from a long-time operating role running product teams, and building developer tools, and ML applications.

Development Team Review 105

Development Team Review Technical Review Investment Enterprise 105

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Aileen Lee: And so, they’re just way easier due diligence, I think. I’m here.” Jason Lemkin: Thank you for coming.

Investment 194

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 194

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 171

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. Unlike the enterprise sale to the head of IT, where software is pushed down from the top, SaaS companies take advantage of the consumerization of IT.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Sales Hiring 163

Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 163

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results.

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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 110

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

So as much you spend time in the diligence process with the big company or the VC trying to figure out how they’re going to help you and how you’re going to pitch to you. When you’re in the getting to know each other and in the diligence process, everybody’s like, “Hey, how accommodating can we be?

Development Team Review 139

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 139

Neil Patel

JANUARY 10, 2022

Start assembling your team. The best solution is to be as diligent and prepared as possible. IT experts, SEOs, designers, analytics teams; they’ll all have invaluable opinions and advice on how to get it right—but also explain what can go wrong. Set Website Migration Budgets, Timelines, and Teams.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 128

Kraftblick

JUNE 8, 2020

Our conversation is about enterprise companies, their mindset, and what potential contractors should do to close deals with them faster. How should a small company build communication with enterprises? Is it better to let communication develop in a natural way or to use some kind of technique? . Get enterprise leads for us.”

Software Review 52

Software Review Payment Solutions Development Team Review Systems Review 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 24, 2021

Often, SaaS companies develop pre-set quantities for each subscription plan. For a SaaS company with only a few years under its belt, figuring out the best strategy for subscription plans takes diligence, attention, and experimentation. More often than not, payments fail due to your billing system that’s integrated with your website.

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Payment Features Subscription Software Review Payments 97

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2019

“Anita came on as the first CRO of Voxy in 2018 and has since scaled the inside sales team both in the US and in their international offices. She is a fantastic representation of what it means to be a sales leader– not just a sales manager– as echoed by the members of her team and others in the C-suite at Voxy.

Scale 106

Scale Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales 106

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. The owners tend to be thought leaders in their industry and operations are developed with department heads and teams working under them. Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

Depending on its specific enterprise practices, your organisation can assemble controls that follows one or more principle of trust - this is because SOC 2 allows you to choose your own scope. With a SOC 2 report, businesses will spend less time performing due diligence as part of the sales cycle.

Software Review 75

Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software 75

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

The importance of due diligence in company selection. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. I would call it sort of class new market development. What You’ll Learn.

Development Team Review 64

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 64

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s say I’m thinking of developing a tool that makes it easier to recruit contractors, and I want to learn more about what’s on community managers’ minds. Of course, I want to do my due diligence and make sure that he is a true authority in the world of tech. A team account is also available; request pricing to find out more.

Social Media 122

Social Media Development Team Review Market Research Software Review 122

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.

Investment 107

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 107

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And we are super excited to have two leaders who have been at the helm of creating literally hundreds of millions of dollars of enterprise value, maybe billions in the last few years. So it’s a lot more in some ways like consumer than enterprise. When you have scaled and when you are in those enterprise conversations.

Scale 148

Scale Sales Hiring Development Team Review Technical Review 148

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Sales rep or sales team. You can now see what’s going on within your organization and what your team needs to do to reach their goals. . Review all of your lead data to see where you’re seeing the most success. . Your marketing teams will test out different messaging for ads, content, campaigns, etc. Contact data.

Scale 89

Scale Sales Hiring Data Sales 89

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

ProfitWell is a SaaS enterprise focused on the B2C and B2B markets. Proftwell’s Retain: This is designed to reduce involuntary churn due to credit card failures. At the moment, the Baremetrics team is building out a new Shopify Integration that will give ProfitWell a run for their money.

Payments 94

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

SaaS enables customers to trade the large capital expenditures associated with traditional enterprise software for smaller operating expenses: a lower cost of entry, and minimal IT infrastructure to manage. This often includes leading implementation, customer success and customer support teams.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s a structured way to develop a set of hypotheses across marketing & product experiences that are informed by what you know about your customer and your business. The ability to communicate with and collaborate with other teams in the organization (especially product & marketing). Buy-in from the executive team.

Development Team Review 68

Development Team Review Scale Sales Hiring Acquisition 68

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

Chasing only enterprise deals. 1) Chasing Only Enterprise Deals. There’s a general tendency among most frontline sales teams to sell to enterprises and become the next Salesforce. It’s great to dream about bagging enterprise deals with the Fortune 500 companies. Not asking the hard questions. Keeping it one-to-one.

B2B 69

B2B Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 69

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

OPEXEngine will add strategic benchmarking capabilities to Bain’s growing suite of proprietary data offerings supporting multiple industries, including software, technology, private equity, and M&A investors across strategy and enterprise value creation. OPEXEngine is based outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

Software Review 52

Software Review Benchmarks Technical Review Development Team Review 52

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Pri Carr leads SurveyMonkey’s business strategy, operations and corporate development teams, and Jordan Nolff heads up the company’s monetization and pricing strategy. With all these flags raised, the team moved on to the second step in the process—validating the hypothesis. Validating the Hypothesis.

Pricing 66

Pricing Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 66

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%. I just had a cold call with an enterprise corporate prospect in the financial industry for an IT cloud solution.

ChatGPT 93

ChatGPT Scale AI Search AI 93