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? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 231

Kellblog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With capital scarce and expensive, with companies increasingly trapped in Schrödinger’s startup paradox , and with more startups than ever focused on positive cashflow and The Rule of 40 , it’s safe to say that Silicon Valley is still very much in a cost-cutting mood. Ditto for product marketers. Workflation.

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VP of Engineering Travel Underperforming Technical Team Headcount 107

ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Imagine a world in which your customers sell your product for you. You just have to achieve stellar product-market fit. Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, put it this way, “product-market fit is when people sell for you.” What is product-market fit? Ideal, right?

Product Marketing 52

Product Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Advertising 52

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.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As part of our last three annual finance and operating benchmarks surveys, we’ve asked nearly 2,000 startup founders and leaders of B2B SaaS businesses this simple question: “What’s keeping you up at night?”. It’s simply about which areas startup founders feel like they may be coming up short, not doing enough, or missing the mark.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Startup 82

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

Considering target persona, price, and use case (JTBD) – Userpilot has only two contendents to the title “Userpilot alternatives” – Pendo and Appcues. However, it limits its pricing by feature usage – so you’ll need to upgrade to nearly $900 per month if you need e.g. more than 5 segments. Best for large enterprises.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding Enterprise 105

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 338

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. I had also worked in customer service and e-commerce in the past and knew this market was prime for disruption.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales SMB 267

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 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring DevOps as a Service Scale 93

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. How easy was it to use our product?

Retention 98

Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. After product/market fit, most companies’ obsession is not thinking about how to create their next amazing product. Product/market fit has a positive slope.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

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. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 250

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. Every one of these categories had had a really strong product, but banking was still exactly as they had been forever. Seema: I love the minimum delightful product.

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Sales Hiring Banking Scale Pricing 89

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

Software Review 98

Software Review Systems Review Underperforming Technical Team Mobile 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

* Why does Andy think the seat-based pricing model in SaaS will die? Why is volume-based pricing optimal? How does one instil volume based pricing without disincentivizing usage? What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer.

Sales Hiring 203

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Technical Review 203

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. All startups are screwed up. All startups are screwed up. Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. This is my style.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Startup 64

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. Userpilot is another product adoption tool with solid analytics , user sentiment tools, and an engagement layer that come at the fraction of the price of the alternative products.

Software Review 98

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review 98

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

GTM strategies are important because they help you build and launch better products at the right time, reducing the chances of your startup failing. An effective go-to-market strategy includes a selling strategy, pricing model, target audience, and most suitable channels for marketing your product.

Strategy 98

Strategy Marketing SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 98

OpenView Labs

JULY 8, 2019

Pricing is a crucial, pivotal element in any SaaS success story. For a lot of companies, especially startups and expansion-stage organizations, figuring out pricing involves a lot of trial and error. I have had the opportunity to learn a great deal, both from others and through my own pricing experiments.

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Pricing Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 61

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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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 149

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Loving our podcast content?

SMB 189

SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 189

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? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 134

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Why does he believe this is so important?

DevOps as a Service 100

DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Developer platform: a business where developers can build businesses on top of the business’s software and charge customers. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. There are three fairly weak arguments I don’t like, but I’ll present them anyway. #1 Take them from the marketplace team.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But no matter how thick a skin you develop, it’s never fun to be told ‘no,’ especially after you’ve spent significant time with an investor exploring a potential deal. To make matters worse, the customers revealed that instead of paying for a seat for each team member, they bought one login and shared it amongst 10 people.

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Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 73

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Basically you can more easily start using products. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 234

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Failure to meet the right product-market fit . But, in reality, it is related to the market. If your product is not seen as a solution for an existing problem for which people are searching, it is bound to fail. The solution for this issue is first to analyze the market and plan a product accordingly.

Underperforming Technical Team 10

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review SaaS Systems Review 10

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. 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. Interested in sponsoring?

Sales Hiring 162

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 162

OpenView Labs

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s easy to forget that SaaS product management is a relatively new, and still emerging, function. For proof, might I suggest the classic post Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , which presents a very different vision for the role of product manager than most of us have today). Product KPIs.

Management 55

Management SaaS Scale Sales Recruiting 55

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 140

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

VP of Engineering 268

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 268

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Difficulty executing on product and go-to-market tend to boil down to one thing: lack of segmentation. Most SaaS startups have a nearly limitless market opportunity, but don’t have the product, engineering, sales or marketing resources to gain traction in the entire market all at once.

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Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 41

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

User Pilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started!

Software Review 52

Software Review Churn Systems Review Technical Review 52

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source 16 Startup Metrics by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy, a16z We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52