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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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How to Choose SaaS Billing Software

Baremetrics

Similarly, the startup leadership are usually the best people to figure out the type of an integration needed between their app and the billing platform. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business. Take a look at your company’s revenue.

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9 Must-Have Integrations to Level Up Customer Success Software

ChurnZero

And by virtue of that, it’s essential that Customer Success software – like a Customer Success team – plays well with the others it works alongside if the customer is to truly come first. Bad satisfaction rating” alert so CSMs can immediately reach out to frustrated customers who cite having a poor experience. Who owns it?

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How Product Roadmaps Kill Outcomes [Dave Martin]

User Pilot

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

Instead, top reps are leveraging the latest thought leadership topics to form connections with prospects and spark mutually engaging conversations. It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. You don’t want a rep who bails on every sale at the first sign of trouble, but you also don’t want someone who never lets a bad sale go.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring.

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