SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

Parker Conrad, founder and CEO of Rippling (and previously Zenefits), makes a compelling case that the “focus above all” mentality is not just limitingit might be fundamentally wrong for many businesses. Payroll in the UK, like many business processes, is complex and interconnected. ” The compound startup alternative?

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Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cloud 157

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In this article, we explore the concept of customer satisfaction – how to measure it, why it is important for your business, and how you can improve customer satisfaction levels. However, what satisfies customers differs from one business to another. What does customer satisfaction look like for SaaS businesses?

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. company positioning: what is the narrative of the business? Business Development.

Underperforming Technical Team 340

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 340

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

How new global laws like the European Accessibility Act will impact digital businesses. If you’re a founder, marketer, or product leader looking to grow your business while doing the right thing, this episode is a must-listen. It’s also good from a legal perspective for businesses. Is that a fair point?

Business 99

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 99

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Balancing risks in machine learning development.

Artificial Intelligence 281

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Underperforming Technical Team Development 281

Incredo

MARCH 20, 2020

The outbreak of coronavirus brought changes that companies were forced to admit. One of the major changes was that many businesses switched to a remote working system. At the beginning it was a bit hard to track the progress of tasks and communicate with team members effectively.

Underperforming Technical Team 227

Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Systems Review Software Review 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

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?

Sales Hiring 261

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 261

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

How to apply actionable metrics to different SaaS business stages. A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Enables teams to track progress toward key performance indicators (KPIs). What is product analytics?

Strategy 105

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Government Customer Lifetime Value 105

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

If you own a SaaS or other digital product business such as a Slack plugin, Chrome extension, online publishing business, mobile app, or even a blog and youre looking to exit, you may have a lot of questions about how best to go about it. How selling an investment business is very different from getting VC funding.

Scale 120

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

How many software review sites are you present at? Do you know what role your SaaS product reviews can play in your business success? The truth is – product reviews can help you in a number of ways and even be crucial in your sales process. And you know why people are subscribing to your software.

Software Review 37

Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. Well, let’s go to the business school at Michigan.” We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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Azure Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 256

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses. But in talking to those businesses, Andrew realized that in reality, these small-business, e-commerce consumer stores he was setting out to help were doing everything manually.

Revenue 307

Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 307

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

That’s the one fundamental fact on which we can base our businesses. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. But just the fact that your company is generating ideas can help product teams, sales, success, marketing – everyone – to do better.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 284

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old. “Look, here’s enterprise software. I was a software developer, a product person.

Sales Hiring 339

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 339

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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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing 10 times larger isn’t about magic. Growth exposes your weaknesses, and it will cause more problems than it solves – until you make sales scalable.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Development Software 254

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. Even thinking about implementing a multi-cloud architecture is prematurely optimizing for practically all businesses – especially startups – and not a trap you want to fall into.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? Should your sales engineers also implement the software? However, we knew that this wouldn’t be the right move for mParticle.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 124

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Scale 206

Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 52

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You see, although we work hard to make Userpilot the best product adoption tool on the market, we know it isnt the perfect fit for every business. A quick look into Userpilot In a nutshell, Userpilot is an all-in-one product growth platform that enables businesses to increase product metrics at every stage of the user journey.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. There’s an assumption that as a founder or Head of Product, you need a deep understanding of the business domain your users are in — how they think and want to work, regulatory and reporting requirements, etc. 2 It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software.

Generative AI 293

Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 293

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. It has a compounding effect - the more good decisions a business makes, the better the results will be. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. Software demand is softening. Application SaaS has matured and increasingly there are fewer niches available to build large businesses. In return, they will spend a certain number of hours per month with your team.

Scale 293

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 293

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

In meeting many of these innovative businesses, I’ve observed they face three strategic questions. Classic agencies don’t value the software enough to engender pricing power, develop fast sales cycles, or change the operations of their business to maximize the value of the ML innovation.

AI 203

AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 203

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Everyone I work with uses document management software, and you should too. Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. The problem is if you’re in business for any amount of time, the product gets a bit older. You have to do upmarket and then rotate back.

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 281

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. And we were like less than 10 million ARR and business was doing very well. And I met with Dev and I was telling him our business was doing very well and he asked me, “Why is it doing well?”

Sales Recruiting 261

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 261

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. Norman: Yeah.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Data is changing the way we do business. The amount of information available to us as business owners and that we should be processing and using to our advantage is staggering. It can be an unparalleled resource for you as you make decisions moving forward with your business. A zettabyte is one sextillion bytes. It’s a lot.

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DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team Scale 130