User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. 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. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Nothing matters but recruiting and using your personal network. Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. Sam Blond | Chief Sales Officer @ Brex. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team.

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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.” What works?

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This is why, even for early-stage startups, the sooner you hire your first product person, the better. On a recent episode of the BUILD Podcast , Blake Bartlett spoke with Nikita Miller about best practices for building an early-stage product team. She is currently SVP, Head of Product Management at The Knot Worldwide.

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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?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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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? Loving our podcast content?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 29, 2019

Two weeks ago, I found myself with a ticket to SaaStr Annual , so I roamed the sponsor area, listening to pitches from SaaS startups large and small. strategic narrative) has permeated its ranks because they’re usually staffed by a mix of sales, marketing and product people. Business Developer, Cleverbridge.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Loving our podcast content?

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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.

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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).

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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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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2020

356: Pete Kazanjy is the Co-Founder @ Atrium, the startup providing proactive, always-on insights for sales operations, managers, and leaders. Alongside Atrium, Pete is also the Founder of Modern Sales Pros, a community of 15,000 focused on sales operations and sales management. Stop asking questions.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Kyle made his way into the world of SaaS and sales and came to be Head of Sales at one of the fastest-growing companies in Figma. What worked?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

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. Getting access to the crown jewels and highly sensitive data as a four-person startup is hard, but if it’s a segregated piece of data and a pilot.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%. What works? What does not work?

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale?

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

313: Today we deep dive into what startups can learn from the large SaaS incumbents of today. To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line.

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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. SaaS Sales Models.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. 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. But even back then, I heard whispers in the halls of how great a manager Claire was.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. Whitney is also an advisor to companies funded by the YC Continuity Fund, focusing on enterprise strategy, go-to-market strategy, leadership and execution.

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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. Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Experimenting with product/market fit. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Experiment with product/market fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. In today’s episode, we’re featuring the best parts from those chats.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A “team of one” is the fastest, most efficient team, as measured by “output per person.” Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. A team of one is brittle, but fast. — optimize myopically for speed-to-market. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? Predictability.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2021

You need to measure and repeat so you and your sales team only put effort into promising prospects abroad. Let’s explore the mathematical process the sales outsourcing team at Sales Force Europe takes both on behalf of our clients and in our own lead generation and international sales strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. Obviously, each startup is unique, and the context of a startup matters a lot, but you tend to have the same questions like: “How do I hire general counsel?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family.

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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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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Consistent updates. Growth stage. The growth stage is where things start to get exciting.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

How does it change our perception of finding product-market fit? We also discuss how products can evolve from being highly targeted at certain users to becoming bloated pieces of software trying to appeal to a mass of different users. What sort of tasks does this focus on optimizing for speed really suit?

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

” I booked a one-way ticket here, showed up, realized I had no idea what the hell I was doing, so I figured I should work at a startup before starting my own thing. Atrium is a law firm for startups. So I wanted to solve some of the problems that I saw in legal for technology companies and startups. Alyson F.:

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

After missing the mark on product/market fit for their first startup, the founders decided to find a new business idea and validate it with potential customers. Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. The platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale previously unthinkable, previously, absolutely unthinkable.

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