Audacix

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While your development teams strive to protect sensitive information and your users' data, using automated vulnerability testing tools can help in fixing security loopholes in web applications. What is a secure software development framework? This naturally will help your sales team sell more, faster.

Software Development 40

Software Development Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Development 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

Startup 178

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 178

Audacix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With cyber threats on the rise, it's essential to follow SaaS security guidelines along with security testing tools in your software development lifecycle. It is crucial to make web security a priority right from the design and development process to ensure your software functionality and security.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Systems Review 40

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There’s a CEO at the top in red, VPs in orange, senior contributors in dark gray, team leads in green, and junior individual contributors in light gray. Sometimes there are directors running teams that should be headed by VPs. Is this so bad? Hiring a large team is necessary, but insufficient. That won’t work.

Startup 266

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling 266

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Data discrepancy refers to a situation when different sets of data don’t line up, like when two different analytics dashboards show different values for the same metric. To identify data discrepancies, first cross-reference different data sources and look for inconsistencies. How do you identify discrepancies in data?

Data 95

Data Underperforming Technical Team Government Metrics 95

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

SaaS Payments 97

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 97

Audacix

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While most organisations have the best coders in their software development team, very few have a system for regular web application penetration testing to prevent cyber attacks. Organizations should not neglect penetration testing in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). What is Penetration Testing in API?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Development compliance Development 52

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Understand where your reputation is strong or weak: Your reputation management campaigns should start with benchmarks. They’ll point out obvious but missed details; if your reviews are positive but your customer service is poor, it’ll eventually catch up with you. Will you need third-party review management tools?

Consulting 134

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Sales Hiring 134

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Market Research Outsourced Development 100

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

Transportation 279

Transportation Travel Underperforming Technical Team Finance 279

Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2023

Too often, I see sales teams thinking of their “ sales process ” as a set of stages in their pipeline and maybe a bunch of fields to complete at each stage. We were weak on some key functionality areas where the winning vendor was strong. Bad news from left field There was a change in company direction. It happens.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 90

OpenView Labs

JULY 20, 2020

The true cost to a company of a bad sales hire making $50k annually can be $380k , meaning the stakes for each hire are almost 8x an individual’s salary. Better interviewing = better sales teams. On a team where 85% of sales reps hit or exceed quota, quota attainment isn’t a differentiating achievement.

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Interviewing Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 73

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

Scale 177

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 177

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

In computing, the terms “master” and “slave” refer to the primary and secondary nodes in a database replication scheme. Master” and “slave” also refer to the gruesome practice of slavery. They equate “white” with “good” and “black” with “bad.”. Master/slave” refers to a relationship between a primary source and its replicas.

Technical Review 289

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review CTO Hire 289

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. So I’ll give you an example that’s a late 2000s, reality TV show reference.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Marketing Trends 200

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

TL;DR End-user support refers to how you assist your customers as they perform tasks on your platform or whenever they experience issues. Any help that involves the technical team. Whether it’s through developer’s docs, tweaking the code, or providing integration assistance. Product tutorials. Technical support.

Strategy 96

Strategy Technical Review AI Search Technical Support 96

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

TL;DR Customer communication pain points refer to the problems customers encounter when trying to get help through your support channels. This means customers will abandon brands with poor communication, opening up an opportunity for your business to stand out. We cover: Types of customer pain points. Six common customer pain points.

Communication 103

Communication SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 103

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 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. How can we help the team get calibrated on the role? Matt Oberhardt: So, we have metrics that kind of roll up as a team. Working sessions. Talent in 2024.

Sales Recruiting 86

Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 86

User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

AI writing assistants help teams make their microcopies concise but informative and engaging. User engagement could also refer to the strategies that businesses use to drive user interactions with the product, such as in-app messages or emails. That's one way to explain the term. User churn rate.

Engagement 101

Engagement Metrics Underperforming Technical Team Scale 101

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale 217

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 217

Kellblog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Today, I call them “pipeline sources” but I’ve also heard them referred to as “pipegen sources” (as in pipeline generation) and even “revenue engines” which I think is an over-reach, if not a well intentioned one [2]. Attribution issues (i.e., Use overallocation when spinning up new pipeline sources.

Underperforming Technical Team 131

Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Advertising Forecasting 131

Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Software Cloud Software Engineering 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

TL;DR Scaling SaaS refers to the capacity of a business to grow without compromising performance and quality. 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.

Scale 101

Scale Scaling SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 101

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And they refer your software not to their friends but usually to people they don’t know. 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.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

CloudGeometry

MAY 22, 2021

It’s common to refer in the aggregate to code that doesn’t do so well as (squirm and wait for it … ) technical debt. If only some developers in the past had been more virtuous, frugal, expert, what have you, we could have… (“Closed that deal! Neither are all developers equal. Prevented that data breach!

software development velocity 130

software development velocity Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Cloud 130

Neil Patel

JUNE 21, 2021

You won’t gain word-of-mouth referrals if you provide a poor experience. When you’ve got dissatisfied customers, they don’t stop at telling their friends and family: they often go online and write a bad review. Even worse, they go on social media and detail their poor experience for an even wider audience to see.

Social Media 136

Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Advertising Software Review 136

Kellblog

JUNE 27, 2022

So is developing a geographic strategy. Just as sports teams have an advantage when competing in their home stadium, European startups often have a (sometimes unacknowledged) home country advantage when competing in their home market. Unusable customer references. The market is vast. Segmentation strategies are critical.

Startup 118

Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 118

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We help our clients develop a digital strategy that maximizes the results they achieve with their content marketing, advertising, and SEO campaigns. You get a hand-picked team that will provide evidence-based, practical strategy and recommendations. Which parts of your business are underperforming? Projects start at $10,000.

Underperforming Technical Team 139

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Content Marketing Scale 139

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Customer behavior data refers to any customers’ interactions inside the product across the different stages of the customer journey : from engaging with the onboarding checklist, to clicking on a particular feature, and more. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn. That’s it.

Payment Solutions 96

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 96

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Development Strategy Management 78

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

You have to create a repeatable process if you’re going to scale up the sales team. The Number One Job of a VP Sales is Recruiting a Great Team. But let’s step back a minute, you’ve got three reps on your team already, doing whatever revenue, four, and you want to triple your revenue. Whatever you do, hire two.

Sales Hiring 251

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting 251

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 127

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 127

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

As sales leaders, your job is to help members of your team get to their sales goals by prioritizing the path that will get them there. Part 3 of this sales coaching series focuses on getting the prioritization right with your sales team. They continued on and as you might expect, the entire team got to the objective.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Forecasting Metrics 77