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. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Economies of scale. Brand equity.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. Customers of category creators benefit from a company in the marketplace seeking to help them solve complex problems, get promoted and self-actualize in their own lives and career journeys.

Scale 109

Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 109

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. You can create whatever combined word you’d like for that to be the case.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NP Digital is a performance marketing agency built by marketers, and our global offices allow us to deliver our specialized services to clients worldwide. Mike Kamo, Founder and Global CEO, NP Brands, is a leader in building, managing, and scaling businesses. Team and Leadership at NP Digital. and around the world.

VP of Engineering 126

VP of Engineering Marketing Marketplace as a Service Social Media 126

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly.

Software Review 224

Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. With customers coming to their (virtual) doorstep, these cloud companies are free to scale at their own pace, expanding sales and their reach in the marketplace.

Outsourcing Services 111

Outsourcing Services SMB Acquisition Scale 111

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

Scale 102

Scale AI Growth Hacking Innovation 102

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace. It really gets to the point where you say, “We have the opportunity to scale this. Now we have a name for this.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. Scaling sales during the pandemic. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. It was relatively new to that marketplace at the time. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40].

Scale 102

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

Totango

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For example, our clients in the hospitality industry used Totango to pivot and survive by quickly embedding digital best practices straight from the Totango SuccessBLOC marketplace. Meanwhile, our digital-native customers, like Zoom , looked to Totango to support the immense challenge of onboarding millions of new customers.

Customer Success 62

Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service Technical Review 62

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So if scaling your sales organization is a priority in 2020, here are the things you need to be aware of to make sure you do so successfully. An increase in competitiveness in the marketplace means candidates have more choices than ever. They want a product/service that’s doing something powerful.

Sales Recruiting 53

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Trends 53

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Welcomed Key Executive Hires to the Leadership Team. We’re excited to grow our hardworking leadership team to help us take FastSpring to the next level. This year we made it even easier for businesses to scale their online store on WordPress with our very own plugin. Introduced the FastSpring Plugin for WordPress.

Marketplace as a Service 64

Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring Scale Leadership 64

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

In the last decade, a few major things have happened: Emergence of new platforms with incredible scale (from Facebook to TikTok). Are there marketplace dynamics? Looking at things from a different angle, imagine if a new social platform is emerging (like TikTok) with huge scale and many of your target users.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

VP of Engineering 53

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service 53

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

Software Review 181

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 181

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

PieSync is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) specializing in customer data. An integration service like PieSync, then, helps save manual labor and eliminate inconsistencies by automatically syncing data across apps.". I enjoyed listening to Jack McCullough , Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council.

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 40

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Ryan Austin 15:53 Yeah, we don’t do any service whatsoever.

Payment Solutions 95

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

An established marketplace is a sign that you’ll have the integrations you need in the future. What makes HubSpot Sales Enterprise stand out is that it was built from the ground up with natively integrated features to support the sales, marketing, and service operations of a large company. 10 best enterprise CRM solutions for 2021.

Payment Solutions 84

Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 84

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Embracing professional services as a distribution channel. So our platform is also built for them to use. Andrey: Exactly.

Consulting 249

Consulting Marketplace as a Service Scale Development 249

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brandon Barton is a hospitality tech entrepreneur who has used his experience working in operations at the top hospitality groups to build and scale early-stage tech products that help restaurateurs. That’s differentiated us in the marketplace. My next position was of service or a beverage director.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale Marketplace as a Service 54

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Justin made his way into the world of Sales and came to be one of the industry’s leading scale up Sales leaders with PatientPop and ZocDoc. * Having seen multiple scaling culture, where do SaaS organisations tend to break down both in terms of culture and process? They were so intelligent.

Scale 141

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 141

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. And interestingly, nothing really on Uber is new.

Acquisition 138

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 138

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2019

Roger talks about the role of customer success , how do you build the customer voice into every interaction that you have with the customer, how do you scale and grow a big company, and what are the elements that are so important to picking your next company? Now of course, we want to thank our sponsors. The first is Chorus.ai.

VP of Engineering 69

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review 69

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot of businesses aren’t profitable even at scale. You can start by selling to small customers and evolve to larger ones, because you’re starting with a low cost-basis and then maturing your product and service. Yes, marketplace businesses can be valuable and defensible. Founders are caught by surprise by the scaling phase.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 64

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scaling work: tuning the underlying technologies or process to help the product and team continue to be effective e.g. Uber rearchitecting its data pipelines. Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. The core self-service business was growing steadily at significant scale and was profitable.

Technical Advisors 140

Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? The CEO says SaaStr scale is really important that everyone drops everything, and it’s not that important. We’re seeing that the marketplace is becoming like more and more noisy, right?

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. 35% versus 25% in SaaS.

Investment 100

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 100

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute.

Sales Hiring 196

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 196

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2021

Lead and scale a team of high-performing Customer Success Managers. Work collaboratively across departments to ensure customers are aware of all LeagueApps programs and services beyond the core platform. Expand the footprint in current customer accounts by driving product adoption and up-sell opportunities of licenses and services.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Scale 10

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 13, 2021

Thought leadership for best practice and other useful insights into product development and scaling tech start-ups. Ensure a high level of impact and client satisfaction with the services rendered. Help to onboard new clients and introduce them to relevant people in the organization and the broader ecosystem of useful contacts.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Scale Consulting Marketplace as a Service 10

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. But it doesn’t really scale when you’re selling to the masses. Marketing is the customer service function, etc.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 131

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our recent Customer Success Leadership Study showed that 61% of respondents reported a Vice President and above as being the highest leader in their Customer Success organization in 2021 – an increase of 7% from the previous year. She understands customer service and puts customers first every single day. Cloudera and Hortonworks, Inc.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. Steal Like an Artist. The Decision Book.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Scaling an Ecosystem. So, Atlassian wants to empower other builders to serve all kinds of teams, and the company embraces its ecosystem made up of 1500 marketplace products and third-party apps. Empathetic leadership is a foundational principle at Atlassian that has carried through to this day. Leading With Empathy.

Scale 240

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Construction 240