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? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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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. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? While mParticle has a killer, commercially focused CS team, inertia affected the team as well early on.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 121

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

I bet the freemium metrics appeared good, with positive growth and solid conversion rates. I told this VC I bet that while they had no true enterprise customers, they had a few nice silos within some large customers. Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you ever had a sudden realization that you’re spending more on sales and marketing than research and development? If so, you aren’t alone –– the median enterprise SaaS company spends twice as much on sales and marketing than R&D. Your marketing team’s task is to turn a grey reality black and white for your consumers.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research 258

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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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. Very excited to talk to you today about building consumer grade products for the enterprise. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You should approach this tactically with honed and consistent metrics. You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Develop a focused sales approach. You need to develop a buying persona for each stakeholder profile. What about size?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that. That’s a great example. This always works. If you do Salesforce, try to do Pipedrive.

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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. REQ – Best for Enterprise Business Strategy. REQ is a Washington DC based, award-winning agency with enterprise-level experience. Projects start at $50,000.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Are you having trouble deciding on what feature adoption metrics you should choose to measure the success of the new feature? In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

The Number of Outlets Back in the day you had CITEWorld, IDG publications were better-staffed, and there were significantly more enterprise reporters than there are today. This is actually a huge boon for any company that has really great metrics that they’re able to back up! What it does is give your company a bad name.

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Social Media SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Headcount 198

Kellblog

MAY 10, 2020

I’m a SaaS metrics nut and I go to a lot of SaaS board meetings, so I’m constantly thinking about (among other things) how to produce a minimal set of metrics that holistically describe a SaaS company. In a prior post, I made a nice one-slide metrics summary for an investor deck. Slide 2: Key Operating Metrics.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We work with mostly modern teams. It was interesting, listening to Tiago from Talkdesk, and some of his experience with moving from a commercial business to an enterprise business rings pretty true for me and for New Relic’s experience. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

It collects metrics like latency, token usage, and error rates. Even Sendbird highlights that enterprise-scale AI agents come with built-in observability, fallback logic, and policy controls to ensure reliability under heavy load. Why SaaS Builders Should Care LLM orchestration delivers clear business value to SaaS teams.

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Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Scale 53

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Benchmarks Sales 165

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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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Are you an enterprise needing deep customization and analytics, or a small business seeking user-friendly marketing integration? Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

There are some vanity metrics among the KPIs for customer service. Customer service KPIs measure the performance of customer service teams and customer support management. You should track customer service KPIs to measure the performance of your support teams, improve customer satisfaction, and boost customer retention and loyalty.

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Metrics Software Review Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Are you tracking product management metrics to evaluate your product and monitor its progress? SaaS products are becoming increasingly data-driven which makes it critical to evaluate product growth using the right metrics. However, an enormous amount of available data makes it challenging to select these metrics.

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Metrics Management Customer Lifetime Value Strategy 96

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

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. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 111

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 202

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Enterprise sales model The enterprise sales model is used for high-value, complex sales. Enterprise sales are often outbound or referral-driven.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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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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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. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Kellblog

MAY 5, 2021

Counting leads for leads’ sake (a so-called vanity metric) is stupid. The book sometimes preaches what I might call fundamentalist ABM [7] – e.g., MQLs are bad, you should get rid of them as a concept and never think about them again. When ignorant marketers celebrate MQL volume without caring about conversion, that’s bad.

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B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 143

Neil Patel

MARCH 9, 2021

Whether you’re running a corporate startup marketing campaign or moving your local business into the digital age , you can’t afford to waste time and money on weak leads. Before we dive deep into the metrics and methods you’ll use, let’s establish a baseline definition of lead scoring. Metrics for Scoring Your Leads.

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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. You must already be on the lookout for investments that can maximize ROI – or get rid of bad investments altogether.

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Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. Figure out the technical knowledge of your team. Do you have a team of engineers and data scientists who know programming languages like Python, SQL, and R? User Skillset.

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Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. ease of use.

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