User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users. Key takeaways from this example Multimedia support adds clarity: Allowing users to attach screenshots or videos ensures developers get precise insights into user challenges.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Tom Tunguz

MAY 4, 2016

Plus, value-added resellers charged buyers on a per-project basis which doesn’t align neatly with the recurring subscription intrinsic to SaaS. By leveraging another company’s sales team, your startup’s cost to book a marginal revenue dollar decline, as revenue scales and net margin increases.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Compensation Scale 100

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

Joel Friedlaender is the founder of Cliniko , a practice management software for clinics and allied health practitioners to manage their scheduling and booking, patient records, invoicing, and more. My background is as a software developer, and I’ve been doing that for just over 20 years. Joel Friedlaender: Sure.

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Healthcare Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team compliance 211

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. Payments also allow the company to enforce policies that build trust in the marketplace. Refund Policy.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

User Pilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review CTO Coach 104

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. The company’s best-selling book, Predictable Revenue , details the hugely successful outbound process and sales created specifically for Salesforce. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Stax

MAY 21, 2024

As software and management systems have progressed in the modern age, time-consuming tasks like recurring payments and client management are streamlined through this process. In this article, we will explain the benefits of implementing payment management systems into your software. But improvements go much deeper than that.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Software Review 88

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 105

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 CRO Insights From Dave Gowans Why Full Funnel CRO Is Especially Important for SaaS and Subscriptions “The easiest and most straightforward bit of CRO is what you can do on the website,” Dave says. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 180

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

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Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Various factors could cause customer churn, including bad product-customer fit , poor user onboarding experience , poor customer service , and weak customer relationships. Book a demo now to learn more! Put simply, poor customer service interactions increase the likelihood of churn.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

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. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

There’s sales pipeline , a 7-stage journey describing what your sales team must do to convert a lead to a customer. For your team, the goal is to share more information about your products without appearing overly promotional. For your team, this step is about making your prospects realize they need your products or service.

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Sales Funnel Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 133

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Unlike revenue, where more is basically always better, and expenses, where lower is basically always better, cash in is not necessarily good and cash out is not necessarily bad. However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! What does cash flow modeling software do?

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Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them. However, Michele quickly realized that customer research should be a part of the whole product development process.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Its often blended with a self-service model, like when a website prompts users to sign up for free or book a demo first. What does “Qualified really mean for your team?

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Scale Sales Hiring Startup Sales Recruiting 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 23, 2020

There are a few key metrics that all subscription businesses should be completely on top of. Churn is the make or break of your subscription business. Churn is defined as the moment when a subscription ends and renewal does not happen, or when a customer cancels. The efficiency of your sales and marketing team.

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Payment Features Subscription Metrics Business 85

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

Growth Marketing 174

Growth Marketing Scale Marketing Outsourcing Services 174

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Customer-led growth focuses on using customer insights to drive overall business growth, including product development, acquisition strategies, and customer retention. Book a demo to learn more! A simple in-app prompt encouraging users to book a one-on-one interview with your team can be a good start.

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Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Education Interviewing 111

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

TL;DR At-risk customers are those who are showing signs of canceling their subscriptions. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. What are at-risk customers?

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Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Book a demo now to get started. Upgrade intent : This intent is felt by existing customers who express an interest in enhancing their current subscription or feature usage. Five key steps to interpreting customer intent.

Scale 105

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn Trends 105

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? Four, people in the sale? Jason Lemkin: None.

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 259

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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Engineering Leadership Software Review Technical Review 135

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Book a demo today to begin! You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Should you opt for a one-time purchase, subscription, or freemium pricing model? #4:

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ChatGPT Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 105

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

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Book a demo call with Userpilot and get started! Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it! How would you rate your experience with {team member}? A survey created with Userpilot.

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Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

Kellblog

MARCH 11, 2020

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations. Change sales’ mental math.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting Forecasting 100

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. That doesn’t sound too hard.”

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

It can be helpful when conducting market research and developing a targeted marketing strategy to reach potential customers. If we take the same project management example, you can divide users based on whether they need your tool for individual task management, team collaboration, or complex project tracking.

Software Review 109

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value User Experience 109

ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? Q: What should you do if the team you’re onboarding wasn’t part of the buying decision and isn’t thrilled to be learning a new tool? I have the internal handoff from pre-sales to post-sales customer teams. I have two handoffs.

Scale 98

Scale Onboarding Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 98

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

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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User Pilot

JUNE 8, 2023

How can product and marketing teams leverage customer journey analytics to make data-driven decisions and build delightful customer experiences? In addition to increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn , customer journey analytics helps teams boost customer lifetime value. How could the team diagnose the problem?

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Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Software Review 97