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. 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.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s one of my favorite questions, even though it’s really not a financial or operating metric at all. . The market need for SaaS products has exploded and investment in SaaS companies has accelerated, requiring more talent to grow and scale. Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

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). There were clear metrics to track progress (experience curves, relative market share, relative cost position).

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

Scale 87

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 87

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These materials will take you from the basics SaaS Metrics — 101 to more advanced topics like Go-To-Market and Product-Led Growth (PLG). Here is a comprehensive list of SaaS blogs that goes through the most common metrics and terms. Only a handful of metrics really matter. I’ve tried – just ask my in laws.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Metrics will also change. Sticky after all.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

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

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Metrics: What’s your target win rate for sales opportunities? . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Plain and simple.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

SaaS Payments 258

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 258

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

Sales Hiring 200

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

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). Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s a dream team that weathers the storm that sinks the other boats. The bad news is, you don’t know ahead of time what that thing will be. Multitasking is bad.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 64

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. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 122

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. 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. * How did Justin experience burnout?

Scale 142

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 142

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. But it worked.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 216

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 216

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box?

Scale 179

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 179

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 210

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 151

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 151

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. We’ll be gathering some key metrics to measure your performance. Step 2: Delve in Deeper to Post Metrics. Page metrics give a great panoramic view of your performance.

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Social Media Software Review Branding Engagement 145

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And I didn’t even have words for these functions at the time.

SMB 185

SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 185

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. So it starts there.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

At least at some small scale. Analyze metrics. We hope analyzing metrics is automatically one of the first things a SaaS company does when dealing with stalled growth, but it also seemed remiss to not include the obvious in this post. Curious what metrics industry leaders obsess over? At least for a few quarters.”.

Scale 53

Scale Sales Hiring Artificial Intelligence SaaS 53

SmartKarrot

JULY 5, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success (Federal) Location: Arlington, VA, US Organization: Decision Lens As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage the Federal customer success team through recognition, training, mentoring, feedback and goal-setting. Provide clear strategic and tactical direction to the team.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

VP of Engineering 108

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

Strategy 90

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You might also want to set up a comprehensive in-app resource center to help users solve their own problems – and reduce the burden on your support team. You need to understand how customers are responding to using your application or service and build up an idea of their loyalty over time. Geoffrey Moore.

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Onboarding Software Review Marketplace as a Service Engagement 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Emmet: So my job here is to run the Product Design team here in Dublin and London, and Figma clearly had the biggest impact on our team this year. Emmet: It ushered in the gig economy, the two sided marketplace etc.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Poor marketing.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183