Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Your sales team may need to map out all potential targets and how to access potential buyers within those larger businesses. What does “Qualified really mean for your team?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I was working with a bunch of different companies and teams of all different sizes. Laura: Exactly.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach New CTO 190

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

I built a marketplace for specialty food and I’ve worked in the Valley based in San Francisco across a number of, well across one startup and then a very established online publishing business called Lonely Planet, which of course at one point in It’s the biggest guidebook publisher in the world. Blake Hutchison (28:59) Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott’s newsletter makes a great point: as buying teams get bigger and bigger, our sales teams need to grow with them. In other words, the partners balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses. First, identify your team member’s strengths and weaknesses. Business case development and IT/tech strategy.

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Underperforming Technical Team CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Four years ago, after launching and failing my first startup I realized I had a lot to learn. I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. When I first joined the Gorgias team, there were two founders, two engineers, and myself as the first non-technical hire.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 227

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. a lot of Sean’s early focus and success there came from experimentation with onboarding. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox.

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VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

Startup marketing is tough. But today, marketing is the primary driver of revenue at your typical, fast growing B2B startup. But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. billion dollar valuation.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 6, 2025

AI is transforming how go-to-market teams operate. Here are several ways we heard from leaders that they’re actively doing to reinforce certain skill development: Manual before automation. Leaders like Kevin “KD” Dorsey use AI to surface rep weaknesses, diagnose call issues, and build targeted training.

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AI Search Scale AI Outsourcing Services 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

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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.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 109

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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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In its turn, SaaS company is responsible for optimizing conversions and successful onboarding so the visitor becomes a paying customer. Process is simple but would we write about it if everything was that easy? But most SaaS startups don’t realize that. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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Engineering Management DevOps as a Service Merchant Services 214

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

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Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

Because we’re just a different kind of onboarding tool! ?????. So we’ve classified the different alternative onboarding tools by a) user persona b) JTBD (Job-To-Be-Done – in other words, what you want to use the tool for). It’s also more difficult to use for user onboarding, doesn't offer checklists or resource center.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding Enterprise 105

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? I’m looking at human conversation as a model for all interactions with digital systems.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. And also very fast onboarding. Interested in sponsoring?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 209

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Underperforming Technical Team Retention Engineering Metrics 223

OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. What’s your biggest weakness? Continuously hiring, managing, and retaining the right team can be incredibly difficult and time consuming—if you don’t have the right tools and processes in place to make it scalable, that is. Onboarding. Conducting interviews.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them. This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release.

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Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

User Pilot

MARCH 17, 2025

But there’s more: Interactive user guides improve user onboarding and drive product adoption. In-app guides are part of a self-serve onboarding strategy; they reduce support and customer success costs while increasing customer satisfaction. Users get access to help just when they need it.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Pricing 52

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. I think this is important for product teams for two reasons. ” Des Traynor: Yeah.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 212

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Startups, SMBs, and mid-market; teams wanting all-in-one marketing + sales.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re after the answer to this question, here’s our in-depth comparison of 4 different user onboarding platforms : Userpilot Appcues UserGuiding Chameleon Let’s check out which of them offers the best features for your use case and the most competitive pricing plans! Userflow NPS dashboard. according to G2 reviewers.

Software Review 98

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 98

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

User Pilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Software Review Marketplace as a Service 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2018

For example, someone searching for “live chat for user onboarding” is sent to a different DRLP than someone searching for “live chat for customer support”, because they are likely only interested in the features related to their respective use cases. You’ll want to know where your product shines, as well as any perceived hurdles or blockers.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance.

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Outsourcing Services Data Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 105

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. 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. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

However, there are good and bad ways to approach this tactic. For instance, a project management app might promote team collaboration features to startups while emphasizing security and compliance to enterprise clients. Onboarding flows such as different welcome screens or sign-up processes. Use interactive walkthroughs.

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Mobile Acquisition Software Review Social Media 62

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. The last thing a VP of Sales wants to do is start without a team.

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