User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2025

Product market fit: If user retention is strong and the DAU/MAU ratio is high, it means users frequently engage with your mobile app because it effectively meets their needs. This presents an opportunity to boost retention using those features by refining, expanding, or optimizing them. Stickiness ratio: 1,000/10,000 = 0.1

Mobile

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

YouTube is more than just another social channel YouTube is both a media channel AND a search engine that presents both organic AND paid marketing opportunities. Being read by Paul Mander , General Manager of Optery for Business: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matter – by Richard Rumelt.

B2B

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

Sales Recruiting

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. . Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.).

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

It’s pretty good, someone did a Tweet storm the other day on Zeb from ClickUp’s presentation at SaaStr Annual 2020. Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. That’s a great example.

Scale

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. I had also worked in customer service and e-commerce in the past and knew this market was prime for disruption. Together, we developed sales pitches, built out a robust sales process in just a couple of weeks.

Scale

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted. Lattice had limited resources and a small team, which meant they needed to focus in.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I mean, and I may at the risk of stating at times of blinding lava, they’re very … They’re really care a lot about what is the market opportunity you’re going after, right? You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

Sales Recruiting

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

Sales Hiring

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Collaboration results in the development of products and services that make life easy for the people, driving the market, and indirectly leading to economic growth. If you want to keep your CFO engaged, make sure your presentation doesn’t fall flat. Conduct in-depth research. And how do we know that? Be crisp and concise.

Underperforming Technical Team

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 2, 2018

This blog post was adapted from a presentation I did recently. I receive a lot of questions about growth teams. Is this marketing being re-branded? Who does this team report to? When do I start a growth team for my business? The purpose of growth is to scale the usage of a product that has product-market fit.

Underperforming Technical Team

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Concept testing should be an integral part of product development for a number of reasons.

Underperforming Technical Team

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. They should have input, but startups should hire a VP of Marketing with strong product marketing skills at the same time as the first VP of Sales. (DK:

Sales Hiring

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Outsourcing Services

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Access to more capital means implementing better growth tools, expanding the team, and generally making the journey to profitability much smoother. Before you continue down this path, you and your team need to sit down and establish your needs, as well as the potential risks and rewards associated with each form of startup funding.

Startup

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. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

Underperforming Technical Team

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. To understand a bit more about the launch, we’ve gathered some of the folks behind it: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer.

Scale

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Wrong product-market fit : Your product should meet the needs of your target market and deliver continuous value.

Underperforming Technical Team

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Our mission is to back the best product founders in Europe and yes. 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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

New CTO

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Fast forward to now, Frontegg is running as the core product infrastructure for dozens of hyper-growing companies. You build it and start the product-market-fit quest.

Underperforming Technical Team

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes.

Sales Hiring

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change. Our team at Neil Patel Digital has compiled the ultimate guide below to help you understand the nuances of working with a consultant for the best results. Spot knowledge gaps and weak points in strategy, and ask for alternatives.

Consulting

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. It hasn’t always worked, but that is usually because the product/market fit of the product isn’t always strong enough to survive on its own e.g Uber did the same exact thing with Uber Eats.

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

Scale

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Entering new markets (geographically or target-segment). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. lead generation) are obvious, but some are not: 1) Finding a product/market fit. Would the product fit the selected market?

Outsourcing Services

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The design of your product? . Marketing? . After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Or it can be segmented by marketing channel, geography/market, cohort, or any other way that makes sense to your business.

Acquisition

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

The most common challenges that hinder SaaS growth are lack of product-market fit , ineffective sales and marketing strategies , customer churn, and long product development cycles. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams. Optimizing your marketing strategy to cut costs.

Scale

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. Henrique: So, we applied to YC with this VR idea, which, looking back, it was pretty bad, but at the time we thought it was great. One of the things that I feel like fintech companies really struggle with is what is product market fit? Henrique : Yeah.

Sales Hiring

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs.

Strategy

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In short, JTBD is a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying your product – the “job” your product is“hired” to complete. Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. I want that.

Sales Hiring

User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

You can collect data via multiple sources, such as feedback surveys , user interviews, product data analytics , and firsthand observations from your customer-facing teams Create a high-level customer journey map with all the relevant touchpoints to contextualize the collected data. Let’s discuss these benefits in more detail.

Sales Recruiting

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

How to build an effective messaging strategy For a successful business, it’s crucial to develop your own messaging strategy that clearly articulates your values and connects with your target audience. Lastly, share drafts of comparative materials with your internal team for input and improvement. Userpilot vs Pendo comparison.

Strategy

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

As his Twitter bio reads, he quite likes “the beautiful mess of product development.”. In this episode, our own Product Manager Mathew Cropper sat down with John to chat about what it means to be a product evangelist and how product management can be a force of change within an organization. Start with the why.

Underperforming Technical Team

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

Scale

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

By learning their motivations, desires, and interests, you can create stronger ad copy and campaigns, try out different creative elements for retargeting, and optimize your marketing funnel. If your product is amazing, but you have a poor onboarding process, chances are high you’ll have a low activation rate.

Scale

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

How would you feel if you could no longer use our products? This is a question used in product-market fit surveys. Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it!

Retention