Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

Transportation 279

Transportation Travel Underperforming Technical Team Finance 279

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Data discrepancy refers to a situation when different sets of data don’t line up, like when two different analytics dashboards show different values for the same metric. To identify data discrepancies, first cross-reference different data sources and look for inconsistencies. How do you identify discrepancies in data?

Data 87

Data Underperforming Technical Team Government Metrics 87

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

Underperforming Technical Team 92

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 92

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Knowing this fact, around 51% of organizations are planning to increase their investments in security for the next year. Securing your applications, organization's cloud posture and networks will require strategic planning and investing in vulnerability management. Table Of Contents In 2023, USD 4.45

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Knowing this fact, around 51% of organizations are planning to increase their investments in security for the next year. Securing your applications, organization's cloud posture and networks will require strategic planning and investing in vulnerability management. Table Of Contents In 2023, USD 4.45

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 156

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 156

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. Better interviewing = better sales teams. On a team where 85% of sales reps hit or exceed quota, quota attainment isn’t a differentiating achievement.

Interviewing 73

Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

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. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing. And they refer your software not to their friends but usually to people they don’t know. And those that require initial investments aren’t regarded as reliable partners. 4) Software companies pay only when they get paid.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

TL;DR Scaling SaaS refers to the capacity of a business to grow without compromising performance and quality. The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles.

Scale 94

Scale Scaling SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 94

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

Scale 214

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 214

CloudGeometry

MAY 22, 2021

It’s common to refer in the aggregate to code that doesn’t do so well as (squirm and wait for it … ) technical debt. If only some developers in the past had been more virtuous, frugal, expert, what have you, we could have… (“Closed that deal! Neither are all developers equal. Prevented that data breach!

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software development velocity Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Cloud 130

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

Sales Recruiting 82

Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 82

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

Now, I just invest in SasS companies. You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. Your VP of Sales’ number one job is getting eight to 10 great people on you team. That’s my background. laughter].

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 256

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can find the original post here Today we’re very excited to announce our partnership and Series B investment in Tabular , the company behind Apache Iceberg. At the end of the day it’s optimized for storage, not access (this is something I’ll refer to a lot). This prevents bad data from leaking downstream.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” It remains distressing if teams continue with this knowledge and run the same marketing activities over and over again. The ICT products for marketing automation are much more mature and developed with the marketing process in mind. The expected return on this investment. The risk associated with the investment.

Underperforming Technical Team 95

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Sales Finance 95

Neil Patel

JUNE 21, 2021

You won’t gain word-of-mouth referrals if you provide a poor experience. When you’ve got dissatisfied customers, they don’t stop at telling their friends and family: they often go online and write a bad review. Even worse, they go on social media and detail their poor experience for an even wider audience to see.

Social Media 136

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Software Review 136

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. Want to see more content like this? Overwhelmed.

Scale 161

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 161

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. This way, I don’t have to worry about anybody else taking my big idea, ending up in a bad partnership, or getting sued because of misinformation.

Underperforming Technical Team 128

Underperforming Technical Team Business Sales Hiring Scale 128

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. You get a hand-picked team that will provide evidence-based, practical strategy and recommendations. Which parts of your business are underperforming? Projects start at $10,000.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The other thing we know is that customers generally don’t buy without getting a reference whether it’s a backdoor, it’s a front door reference. Being able to utilize these champions as references as well. Well then that person who was the key reference because it was a person, not the company leaves.

Scale 213

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 213

Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

During an external penetration test, ethical hackers, often referred to as "white hat" hackers, use a combination of automated tools and manual testing techniques to identify weaknesses in the target's defences. It also provides possible remediations that you can use for fixing the security issues in your software code.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity compliance Mobile 40

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 15, 2021

As teams grow, it gets harder to rally around key goals. We both noticed a similar pattern: alignment on key metrics breaks as headcount grows: More teams means more silos in processes and tools used to follow metrics. As you grow, complexity will increase and new departments, teams, initiatives will require focus on new goals.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Scale Communication 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Why tech debt matters.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Table Of Contents Around 51% of organizations are planning to increase their investments in improving security for web applications, as per recent research from IBM. However, it is important to note that application security is not a one-time purchase or investment but an ongoing and long-term process.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service compliance 40

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.

Consulting 123

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

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.

Sales Hiring 94

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 94

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. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 90

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 90

Audacix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million to organizations who haven't invested adequately in software security testing, as per IBM research. While functional software testing is already regarded as a critical component of the software development lifecycle, unfortunately, automated software security testing remains an afterthought for the majority of software teams.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Software Development 40

Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Just investing in security testing tools is not sufficient in this day and age. Note that in this article, when I refer to a website, I refer to web applications rather than static, public-facing corporate websites. These reviews should be done with static code analysis tools (SAST) as well as manual reviews within your team.

Software Review 40

Software Review DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services 40

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It can also serve as a source of invaluable feedback for product development. You’ll also need to hire the right individuals for your customer support team and invest in training them and providing them with the tools for success. the kind of questions customers are asking, and your support team’s skill level.

Customer Support 79

Customer Support SaaS AI Search Software Review 79

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

Underperforming Technical Team 92

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review SaaS Interviewing 92

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. If they don’t keep their customers around for years, then all that capital invested in customer acquisition will have gone to waste. As the future unfolds, the value of that investment has little correlation to the price that you paid.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

You might also hear a customer advisory board referred to as a “client advisory board,” “product advisory board,” or “customer advisory council.”. Plus, feedback like this can help you develop and deliver better products in the future. How do customer advisory boards work? You can better understand how to market your brand and product.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Branding Advertising Retention 98