Hitenism

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Two tweets about raising money was all it took to get 81 email responses and 53 customer development calls with founders. Template decks lack story, buildup, and character, with titles that simply say “The Market,” “The Team,” “The Opportunity,” and “The Competition.” Awesome, right?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 10, 2022

Start assembling your team. Draw up a marketing plan to promote your new site before launch. 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.

Underperforming Technical Team 138

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2019

I learned these lessons the hard way, from painful personal experience in leading teams for multinationals. Keep reading as I share my hard-won lessons, so you’ll know without a doubt when to fire and when to invest in an underperforming sales rep. Bad hires can ruin your business. Lesson #1: Bad Hires Can Ruin Your Business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015. How will you stand out from the pack?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. I’m Liam Geraghty.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 178

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.

Compensation 110

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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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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

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Luckily for you, there’s a massive market of buyers who’ll be happy to purchase your startup. It’s a Seller’s Market A wide variety of buyers are looking to acquire SaaS companies of all sizes. Table of Contents. Why Would You Sell? Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

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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

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 16, 2021

With lead generation, you can attract leads (your potential customer) into a marketing software system with the hope of nurturing them through the buying process. Marketers, particularly B2C marketers , rely on several channels to drive leads to their businesses and boost their conversion rate: SEO paid ads social media email landing pages.

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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.”

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Selling has changed more in the last 10 years than it has in the previous 100 years, and this is especially true in B2B markets. . At the forefront of this change is what we at Engagio call, Account-Based Everything (ABE), some people know it as Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), and others call it Account-Based Marketing (ABM).

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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.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

After that I went and led go-to-market at Parse. 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. I have a team of people who work on numbers. But it worked.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Without the product management, you won’t be able to actualize that vision, because there’s no one to handle research, logistics, and all the other elements that go into successfully building and marketing a product. Nikita has a lot of real-world experience, having led stellar product teams at Trello and Dooly.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true. Deals are getting done faster than ever.

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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.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Every business, every founder, and every market is different and requires a unique approach. Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. Bridge round.

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ChurnZero

MAY 4, 2023

As the customer enablement team lead, I oversaw this initiative alongside our community manager, Branden Maue. It hasn’t always been easy, but we’ve diligently documented some of the lessons learned so that we can share these with other SaaS companies aiming to build a customer community.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2022

How can Finance and Engineering management work together to diagnose weak areas, and shift R&D resources to produce better outcomes for the company? We are working with our Bain colleagues, as well as the SaaS benchmarking community to develop a better understanding of R&D ROI and the levers that impact it.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 12, 2019

How to transition from the “move fast and break things” paradigm to a “keep a steady pace and don’t break things” -- all while making sure you don't jeopardize customer feedback or time to market. One of the most exciting and important moments for a product and engineering team is when you grow beyond 2-3 contributors to as many as 10-15.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2019

And if you feel there is a lack of support or poor management, you might see the writing on the wall. If everyone on the sales team is missing quota, organizationally, you might be set up to fail. When it leaves both you and your sales team in a good place moving forward. Of course, it might not be you at all.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

More often than not, businesses struggle to make their profits soar because they waste time going after the wrong product/market. 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.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. VP of Marketing at Outreach. You need to be on the defensive to make sure you don’t end up in a bad spot.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether it’s your first time dialing for dollars or you’re back in the market for more cash, finding the right capital for your company at any given stage is always a challenge. If so, how much money will you need to build your product and get it to market and what types of capital will you employ to do so? What it Takes.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 10, 2019

Digital marketing has vastly improved advertising and catching your target audience. Lead generation technically falls within the second phase of the inbound marketing process. Price Your Leads Research diligently on how much leads cost in the industry you’ve chosen. Why Is Lead Generation Lucrative?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

Scale 118

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Chargify

JULY 30, 2019

Competing on price isn’t always a bad idea, but if you are selling B2B software, it could be problematic. . And paid users are not going to put up with poor customer service. They are a customer at the end of the day, and you want to avoid gaining any reputation as a company that is providing bad customer service. . Likely not.

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Scytale

MAY 30, 2025

But with new risks popping up and becoming more advanced , keeping up with the latest data security developments has become non-negotiable to ensure ongoing compliance. There are obvious reasons to automate : its more efficient and frees up more time, so your core team can focus on more productive work.

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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

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A poor decision in the planning stage can truly portray a disastrous effect later on. It has to trickle down from the C-suite and might be amplified by the CS Leadership team to start top-down and ensure everyone to be on the same page. Having a seamless alignment within the teams is the key here,” says Dasgupta.

Customer Success 21

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Mistake #5: You’re Selling To The Wrong Market Choose your market wisely.

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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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SmartKarrot

JUNE 4, 2020

Here are 7 such practices that will fetch you a Zero Churn: Discover Account opportunities via Review meetings. This only can be possible if you discuss this one-on-one with your employees during a review meeting. Third, when motivating someone, they focus on strengths … not on weaknesses. Come up with solutions for the concern.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. To IPO, companies need to triple their market share in their core market and have a churn rate of less than 3-4% per month.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. I see a lot of folks like content marketers saying things like, “This is going to change my job forever.”

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