SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. because they needed to rebuild the sales team. They rebuilt the sales team and closed some big deals. A bad one can torpedo you.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 293

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. Expand pricing and packaging.

Scale 300

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

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+. With less capital and a tighter team … you won’t be able to spend as much on marketing.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 294

SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

That doesn’t mean they are “bad” Many, in fact, will thrive as a VP or Director somewhere else. They’ve never really sold at your price point. Selling to SMBs is just not the same as mapping out 5 SVPs at a big enterprise. This almost never works out.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Summit: Enterprise. Trisha Price.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

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.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 145

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. “Look, here’s enterprise software. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT . Super cool.

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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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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 317

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. After all, why make someone forcibly talk through budget and pricing if they clam up whenever the topic surfaces?

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Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 131

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. Notably, price is not the defining criterion in whether the purchase is low or high consideration.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted. Lattice had limited resources and a small team, which meant they needed to focus in.

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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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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 293

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. Pricing 2.3. Company overview 1.2. Funding 1.3.

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 122

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Those are all a bit enterprise biased. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera. So that is the theme of today.

Scale 273

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 273

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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this? Overwhelmed.

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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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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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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. HubSpot across features, ease of use, pricing, use cases, and more so you can determine which CRM is the right fit for your organization. Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

Scale 52

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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.

Mobile 63

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FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. And so I think there are a lot of self-taught developers that just don’t know. And I’m giving that a bad description.

Business 108

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 108

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Other powerful features of GoWP include: Unlimited content edits Dedicated account manager (premium) Dedicated WordPress developer (premium) Daily security scans and malware cleanup White-label help desk. The second tier gives agencies access to a 24/7 team of experts, a support ticket dashboard, and Visual Validator WordPress updates.

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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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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

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. Campbell is probably one of the world’s foremost experts on pricing. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Totango

DECEMBER 23, 2021

To help you and your team combat this dangerous phenomenon, we’re going to do a series of articles over the next few weeks discussing various burnout and mental health topics. Decreased productivity, a high turnover rate, low engagement, and employees with poor mental and physical health all lead to heavy financial burdens for companies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scale Leadership 105

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.” Zach : Sure.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 214

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I provide a quick glimpse at their use cases, key features, and pricing to help you narrow down your options for more in-depth research. Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development. Free trial?

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? WalkMe’s pricing is available upon request, with reports suggesting it starts from $9,000 per year. Pendo provides more robust analytics tools but at a higher price point. Appcues offers only essential analytics features at a more accessible price than WalkMe or Pendo.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team 105

User Pilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Some offer different advantages over others, while some will get you basic functionality at a lower price. 14-day free trial available Starter: $249/month Growth: $799/month Enterprise: Custom pricing Appcues Multiple UI patterns Goal tracking Basic segmentation Small to mid-sized SaaS 4.6 What are their key features?

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Pricing 52

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. Calculate it!

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Competitor analysis reports often include data on audience, pricing , features, marketing strategies , and SWOT. Evaluate your competitor’s pricing strategy Analyze your competitors’ pricing models to understand their approach to monetization. Create a competitive analysis report template.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Benchmarks Social Media 105

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. Short on time? What makes a habit?

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Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Technology Social Media 223

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding Enterprise 105

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. Price gap We were too expensive. The winning vendor came in at a much lower price.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 111

Full Session

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Pricing starts at $39/month with a 20% discount on annual plans. Pricing for this qualitative analytics solution starts at $39.99/month. Pricing starts at $39/month. Pricing info is unavailable. Book a demo to learn more. Take some time to check out each option and see which one feels right for you!

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Solutions Software Review Payments 52

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.

Data Analysis 138

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 138

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights. We’re not sure.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141