Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MAY 20, 2025

AI tools were used to develop the brands name, logo, story, and core aestheticcapturing the spirit of Berlin's creative underground with a Northwest American IPA twist. Market Opportunity The German craft beer market presents a significant and expanding opportunity for Pine Lake Beer Hall.

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Branding Social Media AI Underperforming Technical Team 130

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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Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

I was talking with my old friend, Mark Tice , the other day and he referred to a startup mistake as, “on his top ten list.” ” Mark’s been a startup CEO twice, selling two companies in strategic acquisitions, and he’s run worldwide sales and channels a few times.

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Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 145

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 131

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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Startup Sales SaaS Systems Review 178

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.

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Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 298

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

With some delay I'd like to continue my little series: 3rd DO for SaaS startups Create an awesome product This one is a little tricky. But a series on the DOs for SaaS startups would be incomplete without at least one DO about the product I and will focus on a few aspects that I personally feel strongly about.

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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.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 195

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 321

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

Bernard , Suranga , Alice , Rob ) as well as my other European startup colleagues (e.g., The US poses numerous, often unique, challenges for a European technology startup. So is developing a geographic strategy. This series was both a lot of work and a lot of fun. I was able to leverage many of my Balderton colleages (e.g.,

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Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 134

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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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 290

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. It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. to Close.com.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team User Experience 306

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 226

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. The online platform has a range of functionalities, including e-signature, e-contract, and digital evidence presentation, among others. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

Jyoti Bansal : So first thing Dev is, I know you started as an operator running a startup company, you took it public and then you became a VC and then you became an operator again. You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Dev Ittycheria : Thank you. Now, running MongoDB as CEO.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 264

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Lattice had a product-led growth flow on the website while the sales team was still trying to sell the PLG companies The good news is Lattice had a lot of activity and initiatives at play. Can you start and stop a PLG motion?

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 278

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Leadership is not just about having a clear vision for the team – it’s also about serving others. Having a diverse team is not just better because all the different thoughts, points of view, and experiences make it more profitable in the long run. How can you remove obstacles?

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Education 118

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. Like habits, some processes are good, some are bad, and some outlive their usefulness.

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Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Consulting 212

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He has given his memorable presentations around the world. He was also Coordinator and Trainer of startup sales at Gama Academy, the first sales training program for Brazilian startups.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

HR in Today’s Startup World Be Proactive Hire in a way that makes sense for your company Don’t assume and get help where you need it Communicate clear expectations and make realistic promises Problem-solving with deep listening In Closing. Plan your hiring process long before adding people to the team. Table of Contents.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Consulting Scale 130

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. Who does this team report to? When do I start a growth team for my business? If you’ve been around startups for a while, you might remember this tweet from Paul Graham. Growth teams don’t create value.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Retention Engineering 111

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After your product/market fit, your business model is the most important consideration if you’re to save your business from the startup graveyard. Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Intercom’s model presents a useful way to think about this: Source: Intercom.

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Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

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

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? So everything you do at a startup you’re treating it like an experiment, right? More along the lines of Fortune 500 companies.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SMB Enterprise 222

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. Interested in sponsoring? Let us know. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 218

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

But most SaaS startups don’t realize that. And end up wasting their time and resources with affiliates that underperform. I see many SaaS companies jump headlong into creating an affiliate program thinking it will bring in a large number of customers without much effort. What are and what are not SaaS affiliate programs?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

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.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

By “consultant engineer”, I mean an engineer developing software for a client (which is again different from being an independent contractor). Both of these models can present challenges to the engineer. Fast is fine – we can spin up a large team, we can hire in top class people and get it done, but it won’t be cheap.

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Consulting Engineering Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 169

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). A couple of quick notes of warning.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 296

Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors. Taking risks has a dangerous side, but the opportunities they present often far outweigh the potential dangers. We all have a great team and support network behind us.

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Underperforming Technical Team Entertainment Company Culture Social Media 145

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While common, it’s a bad idea. Now, let’s dive into the use of demos as a call-to-action (CTA) both on your website and by your sales development reps (SDRs) [1]. Now, let’s dive into the use of demos as a call-to-action (CTA) both on your website and by your sales development reps (SDRs) [1]. Cringeworthy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Development Marketing 142

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. In other words, it defines your product’s niche, how it is different from the competing products, and the most optimal way to present it to various target audiences. Determine customer needs.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Software Review Marketplace as a Service 98

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

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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