SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Userpilots key features include: No-code Chrome extension for building in-app flows. In fact, it was first created as an analytics tool, and only in recent years has it also developed an engagement suite. According to user review platforms, their plans start at $7,000/year. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses. There wasn’t software that did this back in the 2010s when Klaviyo was founded. And we actually asked them, like, well, what software matters, and they all said marketing. Is there a downturn?”

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. Finally, we share several customer reviews and case studies for each solution. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g.,

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

You get to work with a lot of different teams. Is your big company doing a return to office and you have to badge in for four hours every day to sit on Zoom with your team that lives in Virginia? And I hear a lot of startup founders, they’re like, oh, I want someone that’s so into working for equity.

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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.

Startup 178

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. 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? Getting the team right is so key here.

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Hitenism

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Two tweets about raising money was all it took to get 81 email responses and 53 customer development calls with founders. That’s when I realized that fundraising may be startup founders’ biggest pain point. Startup founders are a confident bunch often with long track records of success in whatever they do.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Things to consider: Custom code – Website builders use standardized code, which are the building blocks of a website. In some cases, however, you may need your own custom features and the ability to write your own code. Some teams may also respond much quicker than others. Scalability.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We also reviewed six more contenders for the best web hosting for WordPress. Given it’s rather steep (but justified) price tag, we recommend this web host specifically for: Medium to large publishers WordPress websites that rely primarily on online sales Fast-growing startups Professional web designers and developers.

Engineering 124

Engineering Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 124

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Alternatives: AdRoll, Quantcast.

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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

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 189

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

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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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data?

Software Review 52

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. Buffer spent $3.3

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Kellblog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Two important notes: There is an optional fourth part, sales development , i.e., managing the team of sales development reps (SDRs) who convert MQLs into stage-1 oppties. Whether this team should report into sales or marketing is a separate debate. The lines between these parts are not black and white.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Here are some of the best tools for product data capture: Userpilot — best no-code data capture technology for web apps. Ready to start tracking product data code-free? This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance. Pendo — best data capture technology for mobile apps.

Outsourcing Services 105

Outsourcing Services Data Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 105

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. Your default operating cadence should be to run – it’s important startups don’t compromise on speed.

Engineering 178

Engineering Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 178

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 was also Coordinator and Trainer of startup sales at Gama Academy, the first sales training program for Brazilian startups. He’s been running SaaSholic, a blog where he writes about startups and SaaS.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news? For public use. The good news?

compliance 52

compliance Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review 52

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Ask users to leave reviews on the app store to add social proof to your app. However, there are good and bad ways to approach this tactic. Asking current users to review your app to increase trust and encourage the algorithm to display your app to more users. comparison posts, product lists, reviews, etc.)

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Acquisition Mobile Software Review Social Media 65

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet.

Scale 52

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User Pilot

MARCH 17, 2025

There are plenty of solutions for interactive user guides on review sites, but they dont make the choice any easier. In this post, Ill explain which interactive user guide software is the best fit for your company and needs. Cons of Userpilot Considering its price, Userpilot is not suitable for startups with tight budgets.

Software Review 52

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 29, 2021

Luckily, these days we have access to sophisticated software to help solve that exact problem. Let’s say your ICP is a web developer running a startup on the East Coast. Firstly, for the next steps to work correctly, this data has to interface with other pieces of software that just don’t perform as well with larger datasets.

Scale 97

Scale Startup Sales Hiring Sales 97

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. Liam: For sure.

Scale 223

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

You might need a Mixpanel alternative due to how expensive the product is and the lackluster support experience. The platform also has a heavy dependence on code, which can prove challenging for non-technical team members. There are numerous complaints from users who received poor or no customer support from the Mixpanel team.

Software Review 105

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 105

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

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At some point in your journey, you’ll need to think about your exit strategy from your SaaS startup. It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. You might feel uncomfortable with the idea of selling your startup. Transferability 2.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Its lowest Startup pricing plan is competitively priced but the Pro is not so anymore. Its analytics are better-developed than Userflow, but all its plans are more expensive. Chameleon offers excellent onboarding and survey functionality with high-level customization, but it’s the most expensive tool in this review.

Software Review 98

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 98

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.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Scale Development Team Review Software Review 98

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. I’m here.” Aileen Lee: Yeah.

Investment 202

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 202

Kellblog

MAY 5, 2021

I was also irked at the outset because — let’s give credit where credit’s due — ABM itself has been so effectively marketed at the C, VC, and board levels. When ignorant marketers celebrate MQL volume without caring about conversion, that’s bad. When your only tool’s a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

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