SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A mentor of mine suggested that I reframe my search to seek out companies that I would invest in, instead of the other way around. He told me, you can invest time, talent, or treasure. Unfortunately for me, I had little experience, not much talent, and lacked the treasure/money to invest. It seemed like the best investment! .

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Conversational support is the new normal.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 223

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 214

InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Through it all, it was clear that having the right metrics presented with actionable insights was the key to getting better. Running the sales development team at InsightSquared has afforded me the opportunity to create such an environment and keep our team motivated by exposing a clear path to improvement.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I think if you ask how applicable is SEO, programmable is maybe a different question, but I tell you every single SaaS company I have invested in or worked with that has made a commitment to building at least one high quality piece of content per week has seen significant ROI from SEO over a period of months or a year.

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Stax

MAY 5, 2025

In recent years, businesses have seen this massive shift from desktop to mobile devices which has forced them to develop apps with built-in integrated payment gateways. A bad payment experience can lose customers and damage your brand. There are many different gateways available, each with its strengths and weaknesses.

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Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Each of the many documents, presentations, missives, notes, and posts we do in the course of our days would likely be more effective — and certainly more enjoyable to receive — if they were aesthetically interesting. Unfortunately, not all of us either have the time or acumen to engage deeply in creative work. model (1.0)

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, I will share the competitive analysis framework my team and I have developed (through weeks of research and dozens of iterations), and give you some tips on where to look for data that isn’t publicly available so you can have a competitive advantage. Are they looking for a developer with a specific skill set?

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. So that’s easy.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others. Having a diverse team is not just better because all the different thoughts, points of view, and experiences make it more profitable in the long run. How can you remove obstacles?

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The results of account-based marketing (ABM) , content marketing, in- or outbound marketing, on- and offline marketing, and branding, have to be monitored and presented more than in the past. ” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? My team would do things like assign games to different members of the team.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Software Sales Hiring 206

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. In a small company, someone with a unique perspective is likely to contribute more meaningful ideas than someone who aligns perfectly with the rest of the team. The more you invest in the people you hire, the more they will be invested in the success of your company!

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing. And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Access to more capital means implementing better growth tools, expanding the team, and generally making the journey to profitability much smoother. Before you continue down this path, you and your team need to sit down and establish your needs, as well as the potential risks and rewards associated with each form of startup funding.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Collaboration results in the development of products and services that make life easy for the people, driving the market, and indirectly leading to economic growth. CFOs track a company’s investments, debts, and returns – or cash flows in general. If you want to keep your CFO engaged, make sure your presentation doesn’t fall flat.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Finance Market Research 115

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today, we’re looking under the hood of a Lead Development Manager at an IT consulting company, and for that, we talked to Joe Latchaw. Title: Lead Development Manager. A Day in the Life of a Lead Development Manager in IT. 3:00 – 4:00pm: Here I do more prospecting, and I’ll look at future leads for our team(s).

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And what better way to develop this other than enlisting the help of an expert digital strategy consultant who can do a broad set of activities, each of which is directed towards helping you meet your goals. As a result, you can build long-lasting relationships by giving customers higher value for their investment.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Userpilot’s feedback and analytics features allow teams to conduct concept tests and analyze data.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As Zendesk grew and invested in people, the business and processes became complicated. This isn’t a perfect world, but the question was – how could they invest in customer success from a product-first perspective? So Product was needed to help un-complicate. To watch the his full keynote address, just hit play below:

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Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

How Merchant Underwriting Works The merchant underwriting process typically follows a few steps carried out by the payment facilitators or acquiring bank to develop an underwriting risk profile. Both processors and merchants face significant challenges: Challenges for Payment Processors Underwriting teams can have their work cut out for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

By “consultant engineer”, I mean an engineer developing software for a client (which is again different from being an independent contractor). Both of these models can present challenges to the engineer. Fast is fine – we can spin up a large team, we can hire in top class people and get it done, but it won’t be cheap.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. Github) and your preferred CICD pipeline orchestration tool (eg.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST scanning tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. Github) and your preferred CICD pipeline orchestration tool (eg.

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Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service Software Development Software Review 52

Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. Decorate the face you present to the world, and then again, you on the inside. But there is no such thing as only freezing out bad emotions. So strap in, because it’s about to get real, folks. The assignment seemed simple enough.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 129

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

According to them, AGI “controls itself autonomously, with its own thoughts, worries, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and predispositions.” ” Teams across the world are working on AGI, but the closest to a consensus from researchers is that we might see it sometime within our lifetime. What can you do?

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search Marketing 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family.

New CTO 170

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 170

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Be selective about the outcomes you’re investing in. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements. Otherwise, you’re just flying blind. The three pillars.

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