SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is when I got hooked on tech, and SaaS, and cloud, and making things faster and better. This is when I got hooked on tech, and SaaS, and cloud, and making things faster and better. Good afternoon.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

Sales Hiring 261

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 261

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

The reason I contemplated doing it because I really want to be involved in cutting edge technology and work with smart people. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. How defendable is the technology of the product or the business model? So I think it plays on both dimensions.

Sales Recruiting 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 3 Brand stretch.

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Entrepreneurship Scale Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We are a tech startup, and in order to be successful, we expect you to put in a lot of hard work. The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Now, it’s become a matter of resetting of expectations that they’re no longer measuring effort only.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Sales 281

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 25, 2024

There are so many questions to answer when considering how to scale a customer success team. What about team leads? When do I split my one team into two teams? How do I split one team into two? And I know you want to scale your customer success team in the right way. I know it’s a lot of pressure.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Scaling 52

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

VP of Engineering 293

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

Scytale

JUNE 20, 2025

A great pen test report outlines critical vulnerabilities, their impact, and provides actionable remediation steps for your team. Penetration testing , also known as pen tests or “ethical hacking,” tells the bad guys where to stick it by using their own tactics against them. What’s a pen test again? Easy enough?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They built one platform that does it all, but also made it simple so that these small businesses they wanted to serve, could actually use it to grow revenue without needing a developer that they didn’t have. The friend wasn’t very technical and asked Andrew to help him. At the time, Shopify was still a new player. Why is that?”

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 307

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Due to the competitive digital landscape , business owners need to chalk out entire outlines, strategies, and implementation within weeks – or even days. In this guide, our team at Neil Patel Digital will take you through the whole process of hiring the best consultant, along with the benefits of seeking a consultancy for your business.

Consulting 145

Consulting Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 145

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Assuming of course you are like the vast majority of people with no technical skills. Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. Some teams may also respond much quicker than others. If you do have skills, what are you doing here?

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. I’m here.”

Investment 210

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 210

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. We all know that it can be incredibly difficult to call out microaggressions or biases when you see them, particularly when you believe they weren’t meant in bad faith.

Part-Time VPE 209

Part-Time VPE Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Engineering 209

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As a result, much of the evaluation, investment, and rollout of virtual training technology in 2020 was rushed, limited in scope, and poorly planned. And it culminates in leveraging that understanding to find and deploy the right technology. Identify your training technology requirements. Today, not much has changed.

Investment 121

Investment Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence 121

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review CTO Coach Sales Hiring CTO Hire 105

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It was kind of the luck of the draw.

Leadership 118

Leadership Part-Time VPE Management Underperforming Technical Team 118

InsightSquared

MAY 15, 2019

Pharmacy Tech. Sales Operations is Still Developing. As thought leadership evolves and new iterations of revenue and commercial operations take shape, visibility for the discipline is skyrocketing. As a result, many skillsets build the foundation of a strong team. What makes a “good” or “bad” deal? Account Manager.

Sales Recruiting 110

Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Review Sales 110

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

For instance, one agency may rely heavily on technology to power their insights. In addition to a partner that can provide all the technical fundamentals of analytics, you will need someone who guides you and helps you make sense of what’s going on with your data. Thought Leadership. Powerful Technology.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 145

Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

AI is transforming how go-to-market teams operate. Leaders need to rethink how to balance technology adoption with the need to cultivate the human skills that drive high performance in sales. Here are several ways we heard from leaders that they’re actively doing to reinforce certain skill development: Manual before automation.

AI Search 53

AI Search Scale AI Outsourcing Services 53

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Short on time?

Engineering 135

Engineering Leadership Software Review Technical Review 135

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

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Instead of staying in the zone of most competence, divide your attention across all aspects of the product, like the business, tech, and UX. Let’s dive in!

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 104

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. You have to be aware, you have to listen, and you have to talk about the bad things your customers are saying about you. Is this related to a new service program we rolled out and that could be either good or bad, right?

Scale 240

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 240

Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. Sales-Led Growth is all about marketing and sales teams. Likewise, if the sales team has poor leadership, leads can’t be handled.

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sales 105

Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2021

As someone who’s grown from an Inside Sales Consultant with absolutely no technical experience in sales to my most recent role as VP of Sales for Zillow Group Rentals, I have spent nearly a decade hiring hundreds of sales professionals and developing a handful of those hired into leadership positions and beyond. Coachability.

Sales Hiring 136

Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 136

Sales Hacker

JULY 31, 2020

Much of this is due to the nature of our profession, but it’s made worse because most sellers today operate in toxic work environments. So, yes, it’s time to start a conversation about mental health on your sales team. But there is no such thing as only freezing out bad emotions. You guessed it — technical skills.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 129

Totango

MARCH 8, 2022

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Showcasing and reviewing CS software. Providing a resource for CS team members to find answers to business challenges and technical problems. Supporting CS research.

Customer Success 122

Customer Success Technical Review Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 122

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Let’s start by reviewing how you can find the best consultant for your company.

Consulting 145

Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 145

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Short on time? Speak the customer’s language.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

CTO Coach 164

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 164

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS tools are fantastic, but keeping your tech stack from turning into a financial snowball can be tough. ets break down smart SaaS budgeting , so you can make your tech work for you, without blowing the bank. Therefore, shadow AI is just another thing to keep in mind when taking inventory of your tech stack.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

GetUplift

JULY 4, 2024

They’re truly partners and an extension of our team. But, when you’re: a highly specialized, rapidly growing B2B company with a deeply technical product that solves a significant problem for your market and you serve Fortune 500 Enterprises, It can be particularly hard. in overall conversions +72.8%

Scale 75

Scale Technical Review B2B Strategy 75

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Deal disasters you’ll want your team to avoid. Let’s have a look at what you can do to prepare and empower your team to avoid them so you can start beating that quota. As a sales leader, you may have the perfect view of what your ICP looks like, but you need to make sure that the same is true for your team. Equally as important?

Scale 128

Scale Technical Review Sales Underperforming Technical Team 128

Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2021

That means thinking of the sales team as remote-at-heart, not remote-by-default. Running a sales team without face-to-face communication. That means that communication in your team has been slashed to the bare minimum. Just think, coaching, pipeline reviews, training, all running on 7% of its previous bandwidth.

Underperforming Technical Team 126

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Software Review Technical Review 126