Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 16, 2022

Support teams are facing a critical juncture: business costs and customer expectations continue to grow while resources like headcount and budget are decreasing. In turn, you’ll increase efficiency without increasing your headcount. The devil’s in the data: Data is the fuel for efficiency.

Headcount 118

Headcount Scale Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value 118

OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

Over this time, our headcount has grown by over 10x, and our revenue has grown by over 60x. Focusing on Customer Success from the very early days of Typeform has been instrumental in improving both retention and acquisition, and has played an important role in our overall achievements. The challenge was retention.

Scale 69

Scale Customer Success Scaling Sales Hiring 69

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Operational efficiency. The Horizons Framework is an effective way to categorise projects, which in turn helps with assigning budget, headcount and timelines. The key tenet is to understand the real job customers are using or “hiring” your product for. Inventing is to innovation as simplicity is to operational excellence.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

His first company was Personify and he went on to be a VP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, then hire number 11 at Dropbox, CEO at Heroku, and an investor and on many boards before landing as the current CEO at Vimeo. How Does Vimeo Handle Long-Tail PLG vs. a Very Sales-Led Motion? This is how Adam ended up at Vimeo. Who Owns Free?

AI Search 234

AI Search SaaS Advertising Sales Hiring 234

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

There are many posts out there explaining how startup co-founders should “land the first sales, then hire the first 2 sales and when to hire a VP sales”. But, in my experience, there’s very little written about what is the equivalent for Product Management. Are you done with product management?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Startup Scale Software Review 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

First, digital CS will become a way of life due to flat or reduced headcount. Customer sentiment, intention, and level of trust can be surfaced and incorporated into more predictive customer health scores while providing valuable insights and feedback to CSMs and account managers. A few common themes emerged.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale 98