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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Talk to the developers and engineers. What are examples of market gaps?

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Connect and conquer ? build your brand by staging events

Intercom, Inc.

You can’t just lock yourself in a room or outsource it to some agency. Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you. Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you, whether that’s conferences related to your product or meetups organised by like-minded people.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Hiring a VP of Sales with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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

SaaStr

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. The founder was my age at the time, so we were in our early 20s and he ended up leaving to go travel and left me in charge, so it gave me a lot of leeway to really run the company how I wanted to. Secret one.

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

To establish an effective risk management program as a PayFac, you must establish a dedicated risk management team, utilize the right tools and technology, develop proper risk management policies and procedures, conduct regular risk audits, and stay up-to-date with the latest industry regulations.

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What’s typical commission for SaaS salesperson? [Really 10%?]

Incredo

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.