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 75

Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 75

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

If someone is working hard but isn’t working out, invest in them and see if you can get them into the high-performing category. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Others are doing little work and not working out. Guess what? Jameson called that guy.

Sales Hiring 204

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 204

User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective user engagement analysis tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Userlane is the ideal choice for your user engagement analysis needs. Let’s get started!

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Technical Review Systems Review 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

Software Development 40

Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

Software Development 40

Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

COVID-19 has put many businesses in the tough position of choosing what to cut rather than where to invest. This gives sales teams a big opportunity to fill that gap and build a long term relationship. According to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report , best-in-class SDRs generate $415k in pipeline per rep every month.

Engagement 97

Engagement Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 97

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

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. . Develop a well-defined vision. If you have a comprehensive, compelling vision, it will be easy for your teams to trust it and rally behind you. Define your crisis.

Travel 209

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 209

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Because it is one of the only social networks left that is truly “personable” and the engagement is still decent because of it. This adds up to 132 percent more engagement–without doing any extra work past the initial setup. Send onboarding messages with educational messages to engage followers. Send upsell campaigns.

Engagement 145

Engagement Social Media Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 145

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. Create a full breakout plan first, then look back and figure out who will invest.

Development Team Review 227

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 227

30 Day Leadership

JULY 18, 2023

Overall, Dustin stresses the importance of self-awareness and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of team members in order to build a successful and engaged team. The cost of not consistently developing your leadership skills is enormous.

Leadership 52

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team B2B Interviewing 52

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

User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Declining user engagement is a slippery slope to churn – every Product Manager’s greatest nightmare. The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. How should I bring the disengaged users back to my product? If this question is keeping you up at night – it well should. No time to read?

Engagement 98

Engagement Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth?

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

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

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 88

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 88

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

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.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Underperforming Technical Team 220

User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

Management 90

Management Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale 90

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Bad customer support: Poor customer support leaves customers without help or thinking their complaints are not taken seriously.

Churn 93

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 93

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. They apply the four key principles of design thinking, learn from people, identify patterns, make solutions tangible, iterate continuously, in all of their client engagements.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

Instead, top reps are leveraging the latest thought leadership topics to form connections with prospects and spark mutually engaging conversations. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. You don’t want a rep who bails on every sale at the first sign of trouble, but you also don’t want someone who never lets a bad sale go.

Sales Hiring 76

Sales Hiring Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 76

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing. And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, or X as it’s now called, a number of new social media apps have either come into the limelight or been developed to capture the users that have been leaving. Here’s my observation of “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of Bluesky. Here are some of them.

Social Media 122

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience 122

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Sales teams that invest in remote selling and sales intelligence tools will continue to outperform their peers. READ THIS: Selling From Home?

Sales Recruiting 125

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue 125

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. In fact, 36% of sales teams regard it as the most challenging part of the sales process, and 28% say it’s their top priority. Others don’t invest in nurturing relationships.

Underperforming Technical Team 110

Underperforming Technical Team Sales SaaS Forecasting 110

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We recently hosted the Point Nine Founders Summit, featuring several panels and presentations from founders, CFOs, COOs, and sales execs on building early sales teams and hiring your first successful sales leaders. It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue.

Sales Hiring 125

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Technical Cofounder 125

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

When you know why customers are leaving you, you can develop appropriate preventive measures. Escalation stage: Slow response time or weak communication to a support request. Poor Customer Fit. Improving your customer success team to better help customers achieve their goals . Poor customer experience promotes churn.

Churn 89

Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 89

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. Better interviewing = better sales teams. On a team where 85% of sales reps hit or exceed quota, quota attainment isn’t a differentiating achievement.

Interviewing 73

Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And what better way to develop this other than enlisting the help of an expert digital strategy consultant who can do a broad set of activities, each of which is directed towards helping you meet your goals. As a result, you can build long-lasting relationships by giving customers higher value for their investment.

Consulting 123

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

Underperforming Technical Team 81

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Scale Interviewing 81

Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As Zendesk grew and invested in people, the business and processes became complicated. This isn’t a perfect world, but the question was – how could they invest in customer success from a product-first perspective? So Product was needed to help un-complicate.

Customer Success 82

Customer Success Investment Scale Underperforming Technical Team 82

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

During an external penetration test, ethical hackers, often referred to as "white hat" hackers, use a combination of automated tools and manual testing techniques to identify weaknesses in the target's defences. For vulnerability scanning and remediation, you can add Cyber Chief to your software development and security management pipeline.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity compliance Mobile 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

Underperforming Technical Team 159

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 159

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

For 35%, it’s the share of paid users, followed by user engagement/experience and efficiency metrics. As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52