Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2019

But today, marketing is the primary driver of revenue at your typical, fast growing B2B startup. But scaling a marketing team to the heights Segment have isn’t as simple as putting a bunch of A-players in a room and getting them to start churning out paid advertising. Teams can be stretched and under-resourced.

Scale 162

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Startup 162

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. In 2012, Patrick co-founded ProfitWell (previously known as Price Intelligently), it offers an innovative price setting tool that helps businesses price their products and services according to their true value.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

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. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. It is typical in B2B software for customer acquisition to eat up 50% or more of total costs. Or, you might create teams that link specific sales reps to specific account managers and success reps. Churn Starts on Day One. Onboard in Real Time.

Customer Success 138

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 138

User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

Mobile 52

Mobile Underperforming Technical Team Management Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the race to win a customer’s business, it’s not really about how good your product is – it’s how fast you keep innovating. Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Paul: Yeah. Some of this cut deep.

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Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This passwordless methodology is extremely suitable for B2B setups where dozens of SaaS applications are being used on an ongoing basis with end users mostly using their personal computers or laptops to access them. For example, app developers can implement a hybrid authentication setup in tandem with Social Logins if needed.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B Education 105

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In sales, sellers who cite convoluted reasons to explain poor performance, rather than proactively doing something about it often remain — unsurprisingly — at the bottom of the success ladder. Our marketing team sucks. Variants : We have a weak pipeline. Our Marketing Team Sucks. Winners make things happen.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales CTO Coach New CTO 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS.

New CTO 179

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 179

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In the world of sales development, nothing stays a novelty for long. Once considered innovative, account-based marketing (ABM) has become standard practice, a natural part of the B2B sales culture. Generic sales emails are just as bad. It requires fine-tuning just like any sales development technique.

Social Media 132

Social Media Technical Review Sales Underperforming Technical Team 132

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Nico: Correct.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Startups, SMBs, and mid-market; teams wanting all-in-one marketing + sales.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

From the urgent need for organizations to operate like startups to the surprising disparity in AI adoption between CS and support teams, these experts didn’t hold back. 1: For CS to jump ahead with AI, teams will need to operate like a startup Startups are known for their agility, adaptability, and willingness to experiment.

Customer Success 110

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review 110

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 102

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 162

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 162

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 173

User Pilot

MARCH 21, 2024

You can collect data via multiple sources, such as feedback surveys , user interviews, product data analytics , and firsthand observations from your customer-facing teams Create a high-level customer journey map with all the relevant touchpoints to contextualize the collected data. Let’s discuss these benefits in more detail.

Sales Recruiting 105

Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Social Media 105

Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

B2B businesses need to pivot their approach with a new metric to measure the success of outbound email sequences. This helps us with our prospecting strategies but it also helps our reps develop their skill set and become stronger in their role. Andy’s not telling Coral no at all; he’s asking for a bit more time with his team.

Data 109

Data Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Funnel 109

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera. And you have to allow that, in fact, you have to support that in your sales team.

Scale 273

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 273

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 105

Sales Hacker

APRIL 5, 2022

Good companies vs. bad companies [22:48]. Outreach is the first and only engagement, and intelligence platform built by revenue innovators for revenue innovators. Well, if you haven’t, your sales team should be in one soon. Take advantage of the Pavilion for Teams corporate membership at join.pavilion.com.

Scale 102

Scale Sales Underperforming Technical Team Compensation 102

Valuize Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The collaboration between B2B Chief Customer Officers (CCOs), Chief Experience Officers (CXOs), and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) is critical for todays businesses. And yet in the face of all that, enterprise B2B technology companies aiming for sustainable, profitable growth, have no choice. We at Valuize break things down this way.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value 52

Totango

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

They are on a scale that is uncommon for B2B companies, with a $350M run rate, 90K paying customers, and an additional 50-100K free or trial customers at any given time. Reconsidered “Web Try Buy” Funnel: Developed a framework where all Zendesk features and products are a series of funnels within funnels.

Customer Success 84

Customer Success Investment Scale Underperforming Technical Team 84

Totango

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Therefore, it is important to proactively deliver value with customer success best practices that work in both good and bad economic times, such as: Clear, Empathetic Communication. It is an example worth following in the B2B recurring revenue sector. These relationships become even more critical when overcoming an economic downturn.

Retention 118

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Customer Lifetime Value 118

Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

B2B is the least demanding customers for the most money.” - Pieter Levels -. This soft launch already showed me that the demand for this second product was much stronger than the first one: This table shows our customer development until reaching $1,000 MRR. Therefore the role of CTO was the most important addition for our team.

New CTO 87

New CTO Underperforming Technical Team CTO Technical Review 87

InsightSquared

JUNE 16, 2020

Fortunately, many sales teams are improving coaching and executing using the new Guided Selling technology. While the term is not new, Guided Selling has recently gained momentum in the B2B selling world due to its ability to adapt on demand and scale coaching across an entire sales team. Expedite the Onboarding Process.

Scale 71

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Machine Learning 71

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Jaleh Rezaei is the CEO & Co-founder of Mutiny, a company reimagining the B2B buying experience by transforming transactional relationships into meaningful connections through AI-powered personalization. Uber or Salesforce. Uh, and then.

Scale 66

Scale AI Marketing Sales 66

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2023

With a jobs-to-be-done template, you can easily transform your customer interviews into actionable insights and develop an engaging product with high chances of success. The jobs-to-be-done framework is a method for developing products. Avoid the risk of developing products or features that no one would use.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Leadership Innovation 98

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. To keep the development work going, work in small increments, ship them often, and resist the temptation to ‘just add this in’. Average ships per person in the team.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Management Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 104

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

Rob is a longtime sales veteran and is incredibly passionate about both the profession of sales but, more importantly, the importance of investing in your team through sales coaching and training. Why PDA on the sales team is a good thing. We got to the point where 76% of our team was hitting goal. What You’ll Learn.

Scale 106

Scale VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Sales 106

Buffer Resources

MAY 9, 2024

This is both a good and a bad thing – if there’s something else you’d like to be known for, you have a lot more work ahead of you than if your content is centered around what you say your expertise is. Use keywords that reflect your expertise, e.g., "Content Strategist | B2B Marketing Specialist."

Social Media 135

Social Media AI Search Branding Underperforming Technical Team 135

User Pilot

JUNE 24, 2024

How can product teams choose the best strategy. How to develop a growth strategy. A well-defined product growth strategy can help you increase customer satisfaction and retention, reduce customer acquisition costs , and develop a competitive edge. If so, you’re in the right place! Let’s dive right in!

Strategy 59

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Many of the fastest growing B2B software companies employ product led growth as their core go-to-market motion in order to accelerate growth efficiently. This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian).

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Cybersecurity Social Media 89

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The best sales conferences enrich your team, build knowledge, and offer plenty of networking opportunities (and fun)! Bad sales conferences just feel like a huge waste of time away from you prospects. We are leaving with new friends, new knowledge and new ideas.” – Team Microsoft. Director of Business Development.

Scale 90

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Underperforming Technical Team 90

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. But that’s not where they started.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147