SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? They will fall asleep thinking about your company and wake up thinking about your company, and hopefully not in a bad way, in a good way. That’s true. Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Natalia Luneva

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies. For example, I recently observed how a founder praised a developer with a $2000 bonus. Gathering and maintaining a team of high performers isn’t easy. Others want to be praised publicly.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Companies must shift from a focus on competition to a focus on innovation. The core of the blue ocean strategy is value innovation. Continued innovation maintains the Blue Ocean advantage.

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Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2023

TL;DR Chameleon is a digital adoption platform with a difference: while the other tools discussed are mostly no-code, Chameleon will require some developer involvement. Whatfix is one of the top digital adoption platforms around and a driver of innovation in this space. So let’s dive right in!

Software Review 52

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User Pilot

JUNE 27, 2023

It helps product teams create personalized user experiences through product tours, onboarding checklists, and feature announcements. Whatfix is one of the top digital adoption platforms around and a driver of innovation in this space. Tired of bad digital adoption tools? Comparing Whatfix vs HelpScout vs Userpilot?

Software Review 52

Software Review SaaS Technical Review Onboarding 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 234

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow. 29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. 29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. Actionable steps SaaS companies can take to optimize for AI agents and search diversification.

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AI Search AI ChatGPT Software Review 73

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Innovating for People. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Then, I started a company, which I sold in early 2000. One thing we did as a company was … It was last Monday, our executive team said, “You know what?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Team selling and why it’s making a comeback [7:43]. Who influenced Trish in her career development [31:34]. She’s going to be talking to us about team selling and how the concept of combined quotas with senior and junior account executives, converging on one territory, is coming back. Show Introduction [00:04].

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 108

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 31, 2022

That’s because Intercom is a single connected platform, so the survey results can trigger powerful workflows for everyone from the sales team, to the marketing team, to the support team. It’s so innovative, and it got me thinking about the path that led to this point. Take Zoe Sinnott. The population was growing.

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Technical Review Government Scale Underperforming Technical Team 118

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . I’ve been in sales since 2000. Andrea Johnson. Ang McManamon. Heather Cange.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 98

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high. Those business-oriented CS teams who thought customer advocacy meant generating customers who advocate for the company will continue to thrive. Siloed ops led to QBRs that resembled tag-team cagefights.

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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. Predictability is also required for healthy team-growth. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees?

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Scale Government Scaling Sales Recruiting 61

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I love media, I love content, and I love the team here. You probably will be quite bad when you start. ” And I’m like, “No, but you will get better and better and better, and you will look back and realize that you’ve grown and developed, and that is how we are. I get quite bored doing one thing only.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. That doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. Jennifer Tejada: So it’s not all terrible bad news because Winston Churchill told us, “Never waste a good crisis.” Sound easy? Not so much.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developed societies are depopulating all over the world, across cultures – the total human population may already be shrinking. We believe this is the story of the material development of our civilization; this is why we are not still living in mud huts, eking out a meager survival and waiting for nature to kill us.

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Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence VP of Engineering Technical Review 29

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

Prior to Docusign, Rob spent over ten years at Adobe, leading the global sales and go-to-market teams for their Digital Media Business Unit and holding responsibility for over $7B in revenue. Leading a large, remote-first team. It helps me and the team be so much more productive. 55:56 – The power in simplicity.

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Scale Scaling Strategy Sales Hiring 102

Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2025

He writes about product, growth, and leadership at his newsletter Product Mind and is the author of the upcoming book Building Rocketships a guide for high-growth product teams. Join ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and top industry leaders to learn how to accelerate pipeline, boost close rates, and transform your revenue teams. Can confirm.

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AI Search AI Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 88

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you add any teammates in January to your team, theyll get a free month too. With you, the CFO and kind of the, the finance and ops team. Our pipeline is getting weak here. Is it their issues with a team, you know? I put some work with my team on to be able to help you get more visibility. Like, what is it?

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