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! .

Scale 277

Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 277

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. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes. Source: Amazon 15.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

Scale 92

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 92

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

Sales Hiring 95

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 95

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom.

Scale 210

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 210

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Product/market fit has a positive slope.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

User Pilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. This article will dive into how each department should own its own customer retention strategy – and how it should all fit together! TL;DR- 13 Customer Retention Strategies.

Retention 52

Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I mean, and I may at the risk of stating at times of blinding lava, they’re very … They’re really care a lot about what is the market opportunity you’re going after, right? You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. So that’s easy.

Sales Recruiting 258

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 258

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Product usage patterns. The outcome? Organizational scale. Lifestyle choices.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The bad news is: there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’, cookie-cutter method. There may not be as clear a path to your key activation points as you thought and these bad experiences will continue to affect any new users (accumulating churn over time). The bad news though?

Engagement 98

Engagement Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 98

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Fast forward to now, Frontegg is running as the core product infrastructure for dozens of hyper-growing companies. Product-led Growth (a.k.a

Underperforming Technical Team 93

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring DevOps as a Service Scale 93

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. Market penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products.

Underperforming Technical Team 99

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 99

Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

Sales development school, marketing school, and more for your entire team. Asad Zaman : We specialize in helping companies build their go-to-market teams. We went from sales to the entire go-to-market org, practices, technical sales, and executive search. Product marketing, customer success, etc.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition Development 93

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.

Payment Solutions 95

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The design of your product? . Marketing? . After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Or it can be segmented by marketing channel, geography/market, cohort, or any other way that makes sense to your business.

Acquisition 91

Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. Strategy to win. Market demand signals should also be taken into account.

Consulting 47

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 47

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

While this talk really shows his love of thinking about the bigger picture – this is the Strategy stage after all – Peter actually spends 90% of his time on execution. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! I was a software developer, a product person. TRANSCRIPT .

Sales Hiring 337

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Competitive pressures and changing customer needs can be captured by a great marketing or product marketing lead. That talent pool has not kept pace.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Developer platform: a business where developers can build businesses on top of the business’s software and charge customers. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. Why is there a sudden demand of founders looking at this strategy? There are three fairly weak arguments I don’t like, but I’ll present them anyway. #1

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. But as we try to define platform as a business model strategy separate from any other, we can see that this quote is incomplete as a definition.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. So I have marketing time every week and things like that. How does Andy think about discounting?

Sales Hiring 232

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Sales Enablement 232

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

On a recent episode of the BUILD Podcast , Blake Bartlett spoke with Nikita Miller about best practices for building an early-stage product team. Nikita has a lot of real-world experience, having led stellar product teams at Trello and Dooly. She is currently SVP, Head of Product Management at The Knot Worldwide.

Sales Hiring 60

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Management 60

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Pipeline analytics: Offers sales managers a view of their teams’ pipelines that goes beyond what’s available in their native SFA applications. I am super unimpressed with the current Go-to-market tech stack options…If I found the right team to start a company to take out all of them I would. 1) Data/insights often lack.

AI 78

AI Revenue Scale ChatGPT 78

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Brands should utilize diverse channels from SEO to social media and implement strategies like content marketing to increase awareness. Tactics, like lead nurturing through emails and personalized product recommendations, help drive acquisition. The return on this investment is game-changing.

Social Media 85

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 85

User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Every seasoned product marketer knows that adding new features to your product is key to product management success. 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. But not just any features will do.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience Interviewing 96

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The design of your product? After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Or it can be segmented by marketing channel, geography/market, cohort, or any other way that makes sense to your business.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Startup Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

OpenView Labs

MARCH 3, 2020

Because they’re stuck with these limited metrics, CS leaders will continue to be second-tier leaders on the exec team (if they’re invited at all). The customer success leader then develops a playbook for each example of a low-quality champion: low-quality title, weak role coverage, minimal org influence or pessimistic outlook on the future.

Customer Success 55

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale Churn 55

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. It is no longer the job of Marketing or Sales to solely own revenue, nor Product the core user experience.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Education 89

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. What drives these disruptive cycles: Feature creep , which leads to market overshoot over time. Tech bubble relents. Miss, until recently.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Brands should utilize diverse channels from SEO to social media and implement strategies like content marketing to increase awareness. Tactics, like lead nurturing through emails and personalized product recommendations, help drive acquisition. The return on this investment is game-changing.

Social Media 52

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). Role of Product Manager.

Management 55

Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Failure to meet the right product-market fit . But, in reality, it is related to the market. If your product is not seen as a solution for an existing problem for which people are searching, it is bound to fail. The solution for this issue is first to analyze the market and plan a product accordingly.

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SaaS Systems Review 10

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Entering new markets (geographically or target-segment). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. lead generation) are obvious, but some are not: 1) Finding a product/market fit. Would the product fit the selected market?

Outsourcing Services 78

Outsourcing Services Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development Scale 78

Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2021

Salespeople create relationships, but it has traditionally been up to the customer success or account management team to nurture them. However, both teams must be aligned every step of the way, with one common goal in sight: delivering the best possible customer experience. Team effort. What is the handoff process?

Underperforming Technical Team 75

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Customer Success 75