OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. But as we try to define platform as a business model strategy separate from any other, we can see that this quote is incomplete as a definition.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction. Ask users to rate from 1 to 5 how easy it is to use your product. Product evaluation surveys. Which gauges how users feel about product performance and what they value the most. Develop your product through a PMF survey.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. * First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Pricing strategy. These are key questions when determining the perfect pricing strategy.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? 242: It’s the employees’ market.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 28, 2021

Role: Client Success Director (Real Estate) Location: New York, NY, US Organization: REEF As a Client Success Director, you will drive new business applications, working with internal REEF teams to match qualified applications to the real estate network. Troubleshoot issues (may be related to payments, relationship, field operations).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty. TL;DR Customer attrition, also known as customer churn , takes place when customers leave your product or service. moment and experience your product’s value.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Market Research: How to Quickly Test The ROI of a New Region I asked Michael how to quickly test a new market.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. Really 10%?].

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. In this article, we detail what a product launch marketing plan is, why you need one, and how to create a successful product marketing from the start. Let’s begin!

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Heap is a robust product analytics platform that provides users with a plethora of in-depth insights into customer behavior and needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. I love building products, building teams, building companies. Short on time?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Their strategy is simple. Q: If a new portfolio company does not already have a Customer Success team in place, in your opinion where does that fall in terms of priority of the business’ development?

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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.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Heap is a robust product analytics platform that provides users with a plethora of in-depth insights into customer behavior and needs. With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Similarly, you can share Session Replays with other team members.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Gamifying onboarding.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Pietro : This journey used to end at the legendary, mythical product/market fit.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. They had to reinvent themselves.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. The best companies are refining their product to meet customers where they are today.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

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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. What is Tradeshift really? Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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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. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Technology Enables Strategy; Doesn’t Define It. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts. A high churn rate is highly undesirable as it shackles growth , is a source of friction and (rightly) raises tough questions about product/market fit. Enterprise.

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