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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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? We hired everybody on our teams. We can look back at how Datadog scaled.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Variety of UI patterns to engage users, including modals , tooltips , and slideouts. In fact, it was first created as an analytics tool, and only in recent years has it also developed an engagement suite. Just like Userpilot, its a full-suite product experience platform with analytics, feedback, and engagement layers.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2025

But behind every product launch and revenue milestone is a team – and building that team is one of the hardest and important parts of the journey. Build the team that builds the company.” – that is part of your go-to-market strategy responsible for growth. It drives employee engagement. Sophie Buonassisi: Hmm.

AI 81

AI Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 81

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

However, by cutting churn in half (to 2.5%), the company could save $150,000 annually while maintaining a stronger, more engaged customer base. This means having the right technology team in place, setting up ample customer support options, and ensuring that your team is available and trained to address software challenges when they occur.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. And you know what?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Their goal is to build a cohesive revenue engine with ever-growing disjointed parts. That’s why I’ve built out the Revenue Engine Framework to help drive you to success. Revenue Engine Optimizers Focus on the Entire Customer Lifecycle. In that journey, there are three well-known components: engagement, execution, and continuity.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Engineering 137

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? to be the sales engineer during the sales process and then stayed on with customer post sale to manage the implementation process.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 119

BetterCloud

MAY 13, 2025

Every IT team is grappling with the same reality: the ever-widening chasm between the demands placed on IT and the resources at their disposal. Automated systems, on the other hand, can provide continuous vigilance, ensuring consistent application of security updates and proactive identification of potential weaknesses.

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User Pilot

MAY 29, 2025

Poor mobile UX design leads to high bounce rates, abandoned carts , and negative app reviews. Performance expectations: People using mobile web or app expect speed and instant clarity because theyre often on the go, juggling multiple tasks, or dealing with weak connections. Deliver engaging mobile experiences with Userpilot.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

But with all the bad comes so much good : the ability to share your life and work with billions of users all over the world, an outlet for creative expression, the possibility of monetizing your passion, and, perhaps, the most important of all: the ability to share and connect with family and friends.   Content, poof. Audience, bye-bye.

Social Media 112

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Government Blockchain 112

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses. Business case development and IT/tech strategy.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. What about team leads? When do I split my one team into two teams? How do I split one team into two? French engineer Max Ringelmann discovered social loafing in 1913, by asking a number of people to tug on a rope.

Scale 52

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. Now, as one of the managers of a global support team that is quickly scaling, I can completely understand not only the necessity but the benefits of tracking KPIs. Employee engagement.

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Frontegg

MAY 23, 2025

The development of Time-based OTPs (TOTPs) further improved upon HOTP by eliminating the need for user action to increment counters. Developers must implement careful checks and potentially offer feedback mechanisms for users facing time-related issues. In such cases, they relay the token immediately to gain access before it expires.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity Mobile Education 52

Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Are they looking for a developer with a specific skill set?

Social Media 122

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 122

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

How to design surveys for maximum engagement? engineer, architect, builder, etc.), The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users. What makes a customer feedback survey great? Was my guess right?

Scale 102

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249

User Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Intercom Mobile is a suite of mobile software development kits (SDKs) that lets you embed customer messaging , support, and engagement into your mobile app. Tracking carousel engagement with Intercom. Then, show you where Intercom Mobile shines and when you might need alternatives. What is Intercom Mobile? Source: G2.

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Mobile Software Review Pricing Underperforming Technical Team 70

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 18, 2018

Well, it might seem like that’s the case, but the balance between trusting your intuition and engaging in a more rigorous, exhaustive design process is a lot more complex than this anecdote suggests. Which means that intuition can be developed and improved by feeding more experiences and knowledge into it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Development Data 222

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

Understanding these trends and the strategies to take advantage of them applies to other engines like Bing, Naver, Baidu, Yandex, and others. What Search Engine Trends Shaped 2022? Writing for search engines may have been helpful in the past, but Google has been vocal about prioritizing anything written for its users.

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VP of Engineering AI Search Engineering Social Media 127

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review User Experience Retention 105

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? You will collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to deliver cutting-edge mobile solutions that improve efficiency, user adoption , and overall product performance. Who would be a BAD fit for this job? Apply here 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. I don’t think you need to be an engineer to be able to be an effective growth hacker. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox.

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VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Underperforming Technical Team Retention Metrics Engineering 223

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you. Is this related to a new service program we rolled out and that could be either good or bad, right?

Scale 228

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 228

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

You get to work with a lot of different teams. Is your big company doing a return to office and you have to badge in for four hours every day to sit on Zoom with your team that lives in Virginia? And so you want to make sure that your team is also aligned on what they’re looking for and also where your company is going.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Patrick Arippol kickstarted his professional path with an engineering degree, followed by an MBA from Stanford. Diego Cordovez is an engineering graduate turned entrepreneur. Diego Cordovez, CMO, Meetime.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Strategy Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 245