Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

They include innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. They include: Innovators. Innovators (2.5% Innovators (2.5% Early adopters.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Education 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

These challenges created the need for a sales rep onboarding process that is faster and more flexible – areas in which the software industry is already well-versed. Taking a Page from Agile Software Development. Software companies used to spend months or years developing new products. 4 Steps of Agile Onboarding.

Onboarding 81

Onboarding Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 81

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. We’ve referred to them as GRIT. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 101

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 101

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

Underperforming Technical Team 136

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 136

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At the end of the day it’s optimized for storage, not access (this is something I’ll refer to a lot). In truth, innovations in the past few years are helping evolve the data lake (swamp) into a data lakehouse! Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130