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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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

In this article, we discuss Pendo’s use cases, main features, pricing, limitations, and how it can help your product grow. TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Roadmaps are a new Pendo feature for communicating and sharing product vision.

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Scale Onboarding 85

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Fast forward to now, Frontegg is running as the core product infrastructure for dozens of hyper-growing companies. You build it and start the product-market-fit quest.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Product/market fit has a positive slope.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

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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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. This is a premium product, so it just starts that way.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It And that was particularly even more true for Cognota.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

Technical Review 52

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

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Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team Mobile 97

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Identify your target market. Your target market is also a good indicator of which acquisition methods will work best. You have poor product/market fit.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. So I have marketing time every week and things like that. How does Andy think about discounting?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. In fact, the team intentionally takes a non-dualistic approach that relies more on empathy, flexibility, and context than on the concept of right versus wrong. .

Leadership 76

Leadership SMB Underperforming Technical Team Scale 76

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Pipeline analytics: Offers sales managers a view of their teams’ pipelines that goes beyond what’s available in their native SFA applications. I am super unimpressed with the current Go-to-market tech stack options…If I found the right team to start a company to take out all of them I would. 1) Data/insights often lack.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. How does the founder know when is the right time to start moving to enterprise? How does the product and what you invest in proactively need to change as you move into enterprise?

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 145

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this article, we look at each product's key features, use cases, strengths, and limitations. TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. The majority of Heap's clients are large enterprises, like Uber or Salesforce.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

How does Tamar think about effective product design today? How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? I was a C++ developer working on electromigration on a full chip. What questions does she ask? You don’t.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Selling to the mid-market is hard.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * That eventually led me to building products.

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Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 209

OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

Because they’re stuck with these limited metrics, CS leaders will continue to be second-tier leaders on the exec team (if they’re invited at all). One of the top three reasons for churn in every enterprise software company is “my main champion left.” An example playbook when selling into the enterprise is to follow the 1, 2, 3 Rule.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Does one have to move to enterprise? First, what is continuous customer development?

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

An effective go-to-market strategy includes a selling strategy, pricing model, target audience, and most suitable channels for marketing your product. Focusing on the proper metrics at this stage is crucial to how successful or bad your GTM plan will be. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy? GTM strategy.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

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Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 23, 2018

Chasing only enterprise deals. Overselling your product. 1) Chasing Only Enterprise Deals. More often than not, businesses struggle to make their profits soar because they waste time going after the wrong product/market. It’s great to dream about bagging enterprise deals with the Fortune 500 companies.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience.

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Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Entering new markets (geographically or target-segment). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. lead generation) are obvious, but some are not: 1) Finding a product/market fit. Would the product fit the selected market?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How have you altered and developed as a CEO do you think?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

As for Rachel, prior to joining Pilot, she saw the hyper-growth of Slack firsthand enjoying a couple of different roles including Head of Growth Marketing and then also Head of Self Service and Platform Marketing. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. What is a pricing audit? Pricing and packaging.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? 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 penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a partner with NEA, but I spent the last 30 years as an operating leader in enterprise tech. People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Let me introduce myself. Hilarie K.:

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). Product KPIs.

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Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

The situation was this: our engineering team was constantly innovating and adding new functionality. My job, once the bad feedback started coming in, was to figure out what the less vocal customers were thinking and propose a plan to move forward. Getting buy-in from cross-functional teams is mandatory for success.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

You’ll also hear this stage called validation or the product/market fit stage. As those names indicate, in this phase a SaaS company’s focus should be on finding product/market fit. Finding channel/market fit. You may be less familiar with the concept of channel/market fit than product/market fit.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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