SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

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. The market is flooded with capital, leading to higher valuations and unrealistic expectations. He was surprised that both Sales Loft and Outreach were able to survive and win significant market share.

CTO Hire 181

CTO Hire Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 181

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Before implementing the ideas to fill market gaps, validate them thoroughly.

Underperforming Technical Team 87

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 87

SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

To achieve this level of success, startups need a combination of strong financial performance, innovative products or services, and a favorable market environment. Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. Don’t be scared to explore new markets.

Scale 214

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Interviewing 214

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

Management 90

Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Generative AI 90

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). G&A), especially in tougher market conditions, is often a matter of assessing office space, worker productivity, legal costs, etc.

Underperforming Technical Team 118

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 118

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Over the years, though, Asthana has learned a lot about what can go wrong while building a market-leading company and how to avoid those missteps before they happen. He also observed that after product-market fit had been achieved, companies would only ever have to worry about marketing and sales.

Underperforming Technical Team 239

Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 239

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. You have to be a sales LEADER.

Underperforming Technical Team 96

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 96

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

From the urgent need for organizations to operate like startups to the surprising disparity in AI adoption between CS and support teams, these experts didn’t hold back. 1: For CS to jump ahead with AI, teams will need to operate like a startup Startups are known for their agility, adaptability, and willingness to experiment.

Customer Success 104

Customer Success AI Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 104

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Companies that capitalized on these unique circumstances, however, have emerged stronger than ever by innovating new ways to sustain their business. Recovery from COVID has taught us that adapting and learning how to thrive in new ways in the face of change, whether good or bad, can lead to exponential growth. . Discover opportunities.

Travel 202

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 202

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency. The Benefits of Working With a Digital Marketing Agency.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Marketing in the age of the new normal —yes, we’re tired of the phrase “new normal,” too—means taking a good look at our current strategy and seeing where it can be better. This paves the way for startups to use educational and informational content in their marketing strategy. Revisit your pricing.

Innovation 96

Innovation Payment Solutions Startup Payment Methods 96

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. while many others continued to be very presentand remained active in the market. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Why did some survive and some others did not?

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

Underperforming Technical Team 77

Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 77

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. On innovative, beautiful design? Do you compete primarily on price?

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

User Pilot

MAY 29, 2024

TL;DR Product design is the process of creating new products that solve problems or meet specific needs in a given market. Design a product in 7 steps: Carry out market research and generate ideas to help you stand out. Foster cross-functional team collaboration and communication. Follow an agile mindset. What is product design?

Underperforming Technical Team 72

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Market Research User Experience 72

BetterCloud

APRIL 8, 2024

This was a customer-centric, innovation-filled, and exciting opportunity to host and show our love to two of BetterCloud’s very own customers: JAMF and Merge! Customer driven development is one of the most effective ways to get it closest to right the first time around. But this was no ordinary Hackathon. The result?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Development Engineering 52

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.

Development Team Review 221

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 221

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

Underperforming Technical Team 123

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 123

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. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

This week on Scale , we’re getting an inside look at how marketing helped them grow to a $1.5 Startup marketing is tough. But today, marketing is the primary driver of revenue at your typical, fast growing B2B startup. content marketing), organic costs are rising fast too. billion dollar valuation.

Scale 162

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scaling 162

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a customer-centric tool for product development and innovation, focusing on understanding the specific tasks or “jobs” customers hire products to do, providing insights into customer motivations, guiding innovation, aligning product features with real needs, and aiding in market segmentation.

Software Review 101

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Innovation 101

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

With more than 15,000 SaaS companies operating worldwide, the global SaaS market is constantly growing as new products continue to enter the market. You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance.

Strategy 104

Strategy Scale Payment Features Software Review 104

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2020

What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. Some ideas: Do joint marketing with other vendors in the space.

Underperforming Technical Team 165

Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing Innovation Investment 165

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 106

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

When Greenhouse started, it was at a time when the market was growing up, and there weren’t any playbooks. Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today? The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation. They did it. On websites.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 210

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events.

Underperforming Technical Team 77

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Interviewing Social Media 77

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? We do our marketing… on the internet.”) No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens. Remember printed memos ?).

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Machine Learning Marketing 145

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. First, there was a LOT to like about the company: The market size was, and remains, huge. It truly has been a team effort. And by the time we saw the pitch, they already had multiple term sheets.

Marketplace as a Service 138

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 138

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

These startups use machine learning to disrupt an industry traditionally dominated by agencies: law, accounting, recruiting, translation, debt collection, marketing…the list is long. In meeting many of these innovative businesses, I’ve observed they face three strategic questions. Consequently, product market fit is weak.

AI 191

AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 191

User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

Strategy 81

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team User Experience SaaS 81

User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. They earn around $201k/year.

VP of Engineering 93

VP of Engineering Management Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 93

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2019

Agnes Bazin | Chief Development Officer @ Doctolib. She’s part of the founding team Doctolib, and the current chief development officer for the company. Okay, it’s not bad. We split our sales organization into four different teams. So, two teams cater to practices. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Sales Recruiting 107

Sales Recruiting SMB Scale Sales Hiring 107

Valuize Consulting

APRIL 8, 2022

As a revenue leader, are you empowering and incentivizing all of your customer-facing teams to drive maximum NDR in your organization? Given the importance of net new sales to your company’s longevity and value, your Sales team should be empowered to wholeheartedly focus on acquisition. Evolve Your SaaS Revenue Model For Maximum NDR.

Innovation 52

Innovation Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Compensation 52

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In my recent essay about second products , I talked about how the goal of building a second product is not the traditional concept of product/market fit we’ve all been raised on regarding startups. First off, let’s spend a moment on this product/market fit point. The goal is to inflect the growth of the entire company over time.

Underperforming Technical Team 63

Underperforming Technical Team Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup 63

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. while many others continued to be very presentand remained active in the market. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Why did some survive and some others did not?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In other words, if different people or teams in your company aren’t on the same page about everything that’s going on, they might end up doing a worse job. Silos can make your company seem less innovative and damage your employee engagement , resulting in lowered productivity. They could also make your marketing less effective.

Marketing 142

Marketing Business Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing 142