User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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User Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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Valuize Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When deployed correctly, Product Ownership is an invaluable role that provides tactical support to your development team, translates customer value, goals and pain points into product improvements, and leads effective and impactful development sprints. After I graduated from university, I landed in Business Analysis.

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FastSpring

JULY 11, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Sahil Patel of Spiralyze about his thoughts on: Special considerations for B2B CRO. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. We’re human beings with, we come with baggage, good baggage, bad baggage, prior experience, a perspective.

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User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

User interviews Website analytics Product analytics , and more. This manager wants to better understand how users use their product so they can align users’ needs with product development and increase business revenue. These users are a bad fit for your product as they’re unlikely to find value in it.

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Social Media Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Product Marketing 98

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. I’ll often start interviews with a simple “What’s your why?”,

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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. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. We do thousands of customer interviews every year, both with the individual and with the B2B buyers that buy our product. This won’t be that bad.

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User Pilot

JUNE 30, 2024

Agile user stories focus on explaining the “who,” “what,” and “why” of a software requirement, making it easily understandable for both technical and non-technical product team members. However, any member of the Agile team can write user stories. Book a demo now to begin. User story template.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In short, web app security needs you to build a culture of software security best practices in your development team. Otherwise, you could be missing an opportunity to catch on with the rest of the leading software development companies. Be it on your LinkedIn or in your next interview.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Banking Outsourced Development 93

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2021

collecting and analyzing VoC data, helps your Customer Success team improve the user onboarding process. collect VoC data outside the app with customer interviews, online surveys, social media listening, product reviews, customer website behavior. What is Voice of the Customer (VoC)? If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

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Data Social Media Technical Review Interviewing 52

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.

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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 There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 136

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

Justin Kan : It seems like kind of a renewed emphasis or maybe a new emphasis on mental health and building a different kind of company, like one that’s maybe a little bit more balanced and focused on kind of the holistic experience of being a member of the team is something that’s intrinsic to both you guys’s companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? That episode was with me and Mark interviewing Annie, and was titled “Innovating in Bets” — as is perhaps also one of the signature themes of this podcast. Good decision, bad outcome — that would be bad luck.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? ” A technological example makes this clear.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Scale 71

GetUplift

MARCH 22, 2019

Anyway, but what we do here is we work a lot with in-house teams. If your goals are event-based, which are good, or destination-based, which are bad. Your web developer’s traffic, your agency’s traffic, none of that should be in there. Unfortunately, what happens is that people are really bad at closing tabs.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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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. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Andrew Filev. We had a pretty big team. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 154

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

Let’s say you’re 22 years old and you don’t have a lot of money, well, you’re likely going to see very few opportunities to invest, and most of those opportunities are going to be bad. They advise us to surround yourself with people that have different strengths and different weaknesses. This is terrible advice.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 274

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Before co-founding Force, he was SVP of International Sales Operations for PTC, a leading software developer for content, product life cycle management. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with John Kaplan from Force Management. You got to own the good about it, you got to own bad about it.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 2, 2025

Choosing the right SaaS (Software as a Service) tool can make or break a business in today’s digital age. Imagine investing time and money into a flashy new software, only to find your team struggling to use it or it failing to address your core needs. Manage projects across remote teams ? Handle payroll processing?

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Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Technical Review 52

FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

In this special celebratory post, we share: A special twentieth anniversary episode of Growth Stage, interviewing both FastSprings co-founder & first CEO Dan Engel and FastSprings current CEO David Nachman. A brief history of FastSpring, with some fantastically nostalgic photos of the team throughout the years. Jump to podcast.

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