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. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

Sales Hiring 200

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 200

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

Strategy 64

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 64

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. As a manager observing their team, what are signs that an individual is burning out? What actions and communications must they adopt to ensure that this feeling of culture over performance is accepted by the team?

Scale 138

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 138

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. The Significance of the Blue Ocean Strategy In an increasingly crowded marketplace, the blue ocean strategy offers companies the opportunity to break out of hypercompetitive red oceans. Provide sufficient training and incentives.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

Investment 101

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 101

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

But before that, we’ll just briefly look back to October of 2018, when we had this event called The Next Chapter in San Francisco. At that event, Eoghan McCabe, our CEO, unveiled the next chapter of Intercom. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. Bots were heralded as the answer, the savior.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy?

Sales Hiring 190

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 190

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. That was a super cool event. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team.

Scale 209

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 209

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Bailey’s award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. She also founded #GirlsClub , which is dedicated to changing the face of sales leadership by helping more women gain the skills and experience needed to apply.

VP of Engineering 11

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 11

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events!

Scale 168

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 258

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 258

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

Payment Methods 201

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 201

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you missed episode 131, check it out here: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. I believe that developing a clear vision of where you want to be is the most important and vital aspect of that.

Scale 69

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Outsourced Development 69

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. I was just at another event in Southern California and the keynote there was Ryan from Qualtrics, the biggest IPO of 2018. We had a marketplace payer solution.

Payment Methods 133

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 133

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

Headline: Demonstrate your thought leadership. Uncover topics with customer development. For example, if I were doing this for my content marketing service, Grizzle , I would ask my clients questions like: What does your current PR system look like? Your marketing team has already profiled your ideal clients.

Sales Recruiting 85

Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 85

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 142

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 142

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We work with mostly modern teams. Developers were really loyal to the product, and they were able to take the product with them whenever they went.

Scale 170

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 170