User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. So sort of going from older to more and more startup land. Who was the highest engaged teams?

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

So, you’re thinking of taking a job at a startup, but are nervous about the risk, perhaps having trouble telling one from another, and unsure about knowing what’s really important in startup success. Great core/founding team. Startups are about people. We live in a founder-friendly VC era.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 9, 2020

They focus on raising money, hiring and finding space for their small but growing team. What they often forget to think about is the critical component of building their company: their personal leadership. Self-leadership. The bottom line is you can’t develop yourself unless you know yourself.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Duo Security is an Ann Arbor, Michigan based cyber-security startup. 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. Now, we did really cool stuff at this startup. Want to see more content like this? .”

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Natalia Luneva

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Her career spans nearly 25 years, and includes development skills in the full web stack, as well as the business side of the house. How Cynthia came up with the idea of a startup incubator. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

Jyoti Bansal : So first thing Dev is, I know you started as an operator running a startup company, you took it public and then you became a VC and then you became an operator again. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Dev Ittycheria : Thank you. Now, running MongoDB as CEO.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With capital scarce and expensive, with companies increasingly trapped in Schrödinger’s startup paradox , and with more startups than ever focused on positive cashflow and The Rule of 40 , it’s safe to say that Silicon Valley is still very much in a cost-cutting mood. It’s been a tough year. Why do we forget this?

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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. We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

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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.

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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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OpenView Labs

MARCH 24, 2021

Without fail, every week I speak to 5–10 startup founders who are dealing with one of these two painful situations: They’re going through the process of parting ways with the wrong VP of Sales or the wrong enterprise salespeople. For either one, the bottom line is that the cost of a bad hire is significant.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

I’ve worked in the tech and startup space for over 15 years. Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really. I started my professional career in finance and found my favorite days were the ones helping develop and train new team members.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many Series B companies are taking the necessary steps to pursue aggressive growth goals because it’s at this stage that a startup often has proven market viability and is poised to scale. For example, 1,200 unique startups raised funding at Series B in 2021—about a third more than in each prior year since 2017. billion in 2021.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? For many folks in leadership positions, the answer might be… asking job candidates good questions. The last thing you can afford is a bad sales hire. No one has time or resources to waste on bad hires—especially in sales.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide? From our experience, the 3rd question is the most difficult to answer, since it’s the least familiar one to startup founders and CEOs.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Get Dave’s rapid-fire takes on whether startups should track customer lifetime value, if time to value is actually worth monitoring, how to comp both sales and CS on expansion, and much more. Admitting you’re stressed to your team or leadership is tough, and depending on your workplace culture, even taboo.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 10, 2021

Know why you’re training your team before you start. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. Keith: Many people know of Sandler sales and sales leadership training. around the country, around the world, their focus is going to be leadership at all levels.

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. It’s going to be the growth team, and we’re going to put three to four headcount on it.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. All startups are screwed up. All startups are screwed up. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Join us for a great conversation about driving the right behaviors within your sales team. Holistic thinking about compensation, which includes development opportunities, benefits, advancement opportunities, and more. Best practices for managing your sales team through economic uncertainty. powered by Sounder. What You’ll Learn.

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Chart Mogul

MAY 7, 2020

Onboarding a new member of your sales team is challenging on its own, but especially so when they have to call prospects out of the blue. Providing the right cold calling training can make or break the success of a new team member. Explain their existing sales process and what they learned in the course of developing it.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Would you believe that over two-thirds of startup dreams don’t quite hit the mark? However, it’s not necessarily about bad business ideas – far from it. This powerful combination of knowledge empowers you to steer your team and the entire organisation towards success.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a quote from Episode 3 of Startup , the wildly popular podcast from Alex Blumberg and Gimlet media about what it’s really like to start a business. But in the early days of your startup, it shouldn’t be super complicated. Your startup is probably going to fail. This can hurt motivation and team morale.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

And that’s when things go bad. The team scrambled to fix that. Hopefully, it’s a simple fix like a bad robots.txt file. Not all agencies can develop, let alone implement, advanced technical SEO strategies. Such agencies work with a team of experts and the other characteristics I’ll discuss below.

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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. So taking us off, how did you make your way into the world of startups and how did you come to be CEO in UserTesting today? How does Andy think about discounting?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The difference between the pace of a startup and large company. Vikas’ Journey from Sales Engineer to Managing a BD Team (22:20). Navigating the Pace and Pressure of a Startup (36:02). Vikas’ background is sales engineering as a path into sales and revenue leadership. Vikas builds teams that follow this ethos.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. During the course of her time there, she’s seen HubSpot grow from a small, plucky startup into a billion dollar household name.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * How does Carolyn think startups and larger companies can replace the leads that are lost from having no events in a COVID-19 world?

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What are the counter-intuitive strategies Neha has found work when it comes to motivating remote teams? * They say, “Hey, I could join a startup.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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