FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” And we need platforms to be able to do that.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Finding channel/market fit. Are we still a startup? Pre-Startup.

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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. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development?

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. And finally, David Cancel drops the mistakes he says will tank even the best business idea. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

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. I started learning the true value of user growth frameworks as I worked through a handful of startups, constantly learning and iterating on ways to grow a business.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. 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. Why does Dave believe 99% of companies die? *

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. Short on time?

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. This feedback can be used to make better product experiences for customers. Collect useful feedback.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Basically you can more easily start using products. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? They love SaaS products. They love consuming SaaS products not because of the billing model, but because of the delivery model.

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User Pilot

MARCH 11, 2024

Let’s look at the most common scenarios where Mixpanel is NOT the right tool for your user onboarding needs and you should be looking into using a different one: You need better customer support : Mixpanel has been criticized for its poor customer service. Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is Mixpanel?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) is the monitoring, gathering, and analyzing of user actions and data using monitoring systems, allowing you to acquire useful insights into your users’ desires, concerns, and challenges.It Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them?

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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. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

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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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

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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. A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion.

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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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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. This especially matters when you start promoting on social media apps like WeChat — marketing channels that are conversation-based.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” 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.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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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.

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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. What is SaaS marketing?

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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 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. Business, the customers are getting impacted.

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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, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. Skills for SaaS Sales Team.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed. Let’s take power failure.

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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. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

This post will help you wrap your head around the main concepts in product analytics, and how to implement them to grow your product! Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics? It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. Why is Product Analytics important?

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

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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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