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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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.

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 5, 2022

Poor-fit customers can weaken the product over time. Regardless, the more poor fits in your customer base, the more difficult it is to maintain your focus, as they will want to pull your product in their direction, not yours. Do your due diligence before implementing a Product Led Growth Strategy. Bring ‘em on!”

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. That’s how much I knew about it. Not just beneficial for the big company.

Development Team Review 131

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 131

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * You should be.

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Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 210

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.

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B2B Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

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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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. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 91

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 115

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 102

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Kellblog 2022 Predictions Review Let’s start with a review of last year’s predictions which, as it turns out, were pretty good. ARR growth still predicts enterprise value (EV) multiples well — but particularly if FCF margins are better than 15%. The diligence pendulum : FOMO gives way to FOFU.

Software Review 119

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 119

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. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

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.

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Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 54

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. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. I’m here.” Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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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. Most of our portfolio are enterprise companies. These founders have described their investors as resilient, as ambitious, as modest and diligent. What does this mean?

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 145

SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

We are post-term sheet moving along diligence. But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. They know everyone, and if they don’t, someone on their vast team does. Nathan, do you have a question? Jason Lemkin: Got it.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 255

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Powerful buyer influence of software review sites like G2Crowd & Capterra. What we’re still UNSURE about: How will enterprise giants like Microsoft react to partnerships like Salesforce & Google? Review Sites Continue to Influence Decision Makers in a Powerful Way. Facing the Reality of A.I. How can that be?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And every week we’re onboarding three to four to five teams. But I went in and their executive team that came in blew me away.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. It’s really your decision, your founding team’s decision at the end of the day.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. It’s really your decision, your founding team’s decision at the end of the day.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. It’s really your decision, your founding team’s decision at the end of the day.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

and we’re getting some great reviews, which is awesome. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding. The Cost of Bad Fit Customers: The $1.2M

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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.

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Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 171

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.

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Sales Hiring Technical Review Development Team Review Scale 163

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Peter make his way into the world of enterprise SaaS with the founding and selling of 6 companies and how did InCountry come about?

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