SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With cyber threats on the rise, it's essential to follow SaaS security guidelines along with security testing tools in your software development lifecycle. This will help you to protect your applications and sensitive data that is hosted on your software applications.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

However, to achieve this, there needs to be a blend of vulnerability management tools, software solutions and manual vulnerability tests. Vulnerability management is a continuous process of discovery, prioritization, and resolution of security issues in an organization’s IT infrastructure and software. What is Vulnerability Management?

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Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

However, to achieve this, there needs to be a blend of vulnerability management tools, software solutions and manual vulnerability tests. Vulnerability management is a continuous process of discovery, prioritization, and resolution of security issues in an organization’s IT infrastructure and software. What is Vulnerability Management?

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

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.

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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. He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million to organizations who haven't invested adequately in software security testing, as per IBM research. While functional software testing is already regarded as a critical component of the software development lifecycle, unfortunately, automated software security testing remains an afterthought for the majority of software teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2019

When trying to solve a problem with software, it can be tempting to build an exciting, complex solution. At our event Building Intercom in Dublin, I argued that when it comes to building software, we should avoid excitement and embrace boring. When it comes to software, boring is best. How do we develop with it locally?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Making your application suspectable to potential vulnerabilities that can expose sensitive data in your software security review. A thorough application secure code review for software security is recommended to enhance the application code. This is particularly important for your development team and your organization.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

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.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 19, 2021

After college, Ashley joined Twilio and played a key role in helping the company reach, engage, and convert its developer audience. She’s an expert on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building successful relationships with developer audiences, software marketing teams, and technical CEOs.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Luckily, data analysis software can seriously simplify data analysis—provided you choose the right one. How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today, we’re looking under the hood of a Lead Development Manager at an IT consulting company, and for that, we talked to Joe Latchaw. Title: Lead Development Manager. ACV: Varies based on software/solution. Sales Cycle Timeline: Varies based on software/solution. A Day in the Life of a Lead Development Manager in IT.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While most organisations have the best coders in their software development team, very few have a system for regular web application penetration testing to prevent cyber attacks. Organizations should not neglect penetration testing in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). What is Penetration Testing in API?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re not using a customer success platform yet or you’re using an aging CS tool, there comes a time when you need to upgrade CS software. They can store customer contact data, identify sales opportunities, schedule sales appointments, record notes from sales meetings and manage sales teams. You Can’t Evaluate Customer Health.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. If you don’t work to keep your knowledge of the market fresh and current, you may be left with a narrow view that will inevitably catch your sales and product teams flat-footed. Verify product-user fit.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. sales enablement: how strong are the materials sales teams use to pitch? Comms Marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 292

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Learn about your investors previous bad investments (this could determine your fate!). #2 Causes: Weak previous relationship. 5 Slow product development. Bad co-founder relationships. Discouraged or disengaged engineering team. How to prevent this: Have a product development cycle. 2 Investor = Boss.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Ask yourself: Which part of your business is underperforming?

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To make it to the Super Bowl, a football team must have two things: a strong defense and a strategic offense. The defense maintains a good field position and prevents the opposing team from scoring points, while the offense orchestrates smart plays to gain additional yards and score points. What is gross retention?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because we are specifically looking for data, analytics and software companies similar to you, we only have 5 spots available in your industry. We bolted onto their outbound team. As a result, their team had to 2x to manage the qualified inbound. Has your team done any outbound for this yet? Monthly MRR growth has 2x’d.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Modern sales teams need competent professionals with a variety of talents, skills and abilities. But in a hyper changing landscap e, which are the most crucial sales skills and traits that reps must possess (or develop) in order to exceed targets and deliver consistent sales success? Sales teams rarely operate as a one-person army.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At the Product-Led Institute, we developed the “Triple-A” sprint, which focuses on rapidly identifying problems, building solutions, and measuring impact. The Triple-A sprint gives you a way to build a sustainable growth process and can be used by any team in your business. Ask yourself: Which part of your business is underperforming?

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I’ll explain how I think about these decisions as a product leader and give more context on the journey of developing entirely new products inside a company. By general standards, the team found product/market fit, but will never be able to inflect growth of the combined company. Even though the team usually knows nothing in reality.

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User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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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.

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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Here’s an edited version of Mark’s top ten enterprise software startup mistakes list, along with a few comments prefaced by DK. You should leverage backdoor references.

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Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 139

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems.

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Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

More on that here: The $2 Million Dollar Man/Woman: How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team. The human element matters even more in sales and customer success in the age of software eating everything. Now some bonus tips: Build an enterprise-only sales team. You need human beings to do this. More on that here.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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