SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. On innovative, beautiful design? Do you compete primarily on price? On simplicity?

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows.

AI Search 86

AI Search AI Scale SaaS 86

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. Strategy - annually changes. A good idea is a good idea, after all.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

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. One, at every large company, there is an innovation budget. There’s an innovation budget in the CIO’s budget. That’s a great example.

Scale 298

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 298

Totango

MAY 17, 2024

CS professionals have a choice: Embrace AI and harness its potential to drive innovation and growth, or remain hesitant and risk falling behind in a rapidly evolving landscape. Slow support response times : When support teams are slow to respond, customers escalate concerns to CSMs, leading to increased workload and decreased efficiency.

Innovation 101

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A Multi-Segment Strategy You have to be intentional in your strategy to solve for the long tail. But in other years, SMBs are jumping in the boat, so you get amazing growth long-term with a multi-segment strategy. As founders, we want to make categories and innovate, but it’s usually better to do it in a bucket.

Sales Hiring 286

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 286

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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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. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. If so, we’ve got you covered. Let’s get to it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

B2B and B2C content marketing require entirely different strategies. Instead, you need a targeted B2B content marketing strategy to reach your marketing goals. Let me show you why a strategy is so important and help you figure out how to reach those valuable business prospects. Why Do You Need a B2B Content Marketing Strategy?

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B2B Strategy B2C Content Marketing 144

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. You have to be a sales LEADER.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 117

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

If you are looking to scale up your marketing, you will need talented people that can take charge of and execute your strategy. But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

This guide explains what feature ideation is, what strategies to use to come up with new ideas, and how to focus on the right ones. TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

Strategy 104

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team User Experience Technical Review 104

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. A slapdash approach to scaling marketing can result in confusion, frustration, conflict, turnover and ultimately poor business performance.

Scale 162

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Startup 162

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Making the shift from maintenance to innovation.

Engineering 214

Engineering Management DevOps as a Service Merchant Services 214

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways.

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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

You need to have a strategic approach that includes identifying your market fit, developing appropriate positioning and marketing strategies, and measuring performance. Here's where having a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes into the picture. Here's how you can create an effective GTM strategy for your SaaS product.

Strategy 104

Strategy Scale Payment Features Software Review 104

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Management 52

Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2C 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the race to win a customer’s business, it’s not really about how good your product is – it’s how fast you keep innovating. Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Paul: Yeah. Some of this cut deep.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Did you know?

Underperforming Technical Team 104

Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? Its goal is to help make informed decisions about product development , marketing strategies, pricing, and customer acquisition in SaaS companies. This is the main question the article answers.

Market Research 101

Market Research Marketing Strategy Underperforming Technical Team 101

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. Deals are closed by an aggressive quota-carrying sales team: the hunters, and then handed over to a more service oriented group of account managers and customer success reps for on-boarding, renewals and up-sell: the farmers. Onboard in Real Time.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

Portkeys architecture deeply incorporates caching and token tracking: it monitors usage and implements intelligent caching strategies, giving visibility into spending per model. Why SaaS Builders Should Care LLM orchestration delivers clear business value to SaaS teams. It enables better user experiences and lowers costs.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Scale 53

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2024

But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps.

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Underperforming Technical Team Market Research Technical Review Interviewing 103

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. People ask if we had an acquisition strategy, we definitely don’t. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place?

Payments 208

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 208

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Now, without further adieu, let’s look at 14 retention strategies you’ll wish you’d have implemented a year ago. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. Yes, quotas seem cruel and your pricing strategy doesn’t make sense. Our marketing team sucks. Variants : We have a weak pipeline.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales CTO Coach New CTO 99

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

Management 105

Management Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Consulting 105

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You need something that makes you think about your digital business in a new way, renews your motivation, and helps you be more innovative. Nobody wants a bad review. But bad reviews help you improve and create a better experience for your customers. Make sure you have customer nurturing strategies in place.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Payment Services 148

User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Let’s have look at what product positioning actually is, what it involves, the benefits of effective positioning, the strategies you can employ, and the risks of ignoring all the wisdom in this article.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Software Review Marketplace as a Service 98

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. This article will provide an in-depth look at the blue ocean strategy, including its origins, core principles, implementation, and measurement of success. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

Strategy 90

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. It truly has been a team effort. billion to $20.7

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” Say you’re part of a small team or a startup tight on resources.

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