SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Do you have two sales teams? Who gets what part of the long-term development budget? And most importantly, multiple products can be very distracting at the management team level. The last thing you want the team doing is chasing a shiny penny, when what really matters is hitting the plan for the quarter.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Revenue Acquisition 356

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2021

Some examples: Okta basically won the corporate side of identity (rocketed to #1) but wasn’t #1 on the developer side. IBM couldn’t catch up in the Cloud so it bought RedHat, the largest open-source player, RedHat, for $34B. IBM couldn’t catch up in the Cloud so it bought RedHat, the largest open-source player, RedHat, for $34B.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Acquisition Communication 272

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 263

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 263

SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. How many of you guys’ product rely on the highly functioning engineering team? Helping the engineering teams run smoothly and being super productive thanks to mentoring.

Scale 319

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 319

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

Many venture capital firms shifted their investments almost entirely into AI startups. They kept the focus on the core value proposition of helping teams write, plan and collaborate to create better workspaces, while still having the AI inclusion. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows.

AI Search 89

AI Search AI Scale SaaS 89

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! We’re building the industry cloud for life sciences, so our customers are people like Pfizer and Novartis, etc., Get tickets here.

Sales Hiring 340

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 340

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. The future opportunity is for the new owner to realize, which is actually more analogous to buying property than it is to investing in a startup or buying public stock. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why.

Scale 120

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Tom Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

The more interesting of the two for startups is the company level. In order to be successful, startups have to be good at many things. The startup often inherits this exceptional characteristic from one or more of the founders. Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea.

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Startup Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Azure 100

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 193

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.

Sales Recruiting 263

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 263

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

Scale 276

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 276

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

Outsourcing Services 192

Outsourcing Services Part-Time VPE Software AWS 192

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. Lets dive in! Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

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

Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

So, you’re thinking of taking a job at a startup, but are nervous about the risk, perhaps having trouble telling one from another, and unsure about knowing what’s really important in startup success. Great core/founding team. Startups are about people. We live in a founder-friendly VC era.

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Underperforming Technical Team Startup Software Technical Cofounder 83

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. It’s not much worse than 2019, and it wasn’t that bad then. They aren’t dinosaurs that didn’t manage to move to the Cloud.

AI 207

AI Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Strategy 207

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this?

Cloud 113

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 113

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Advertising costs Cost of your marketing team Cost of your sales team Creative costs Technical costs Publishing costs Production costs Inventory upkeep. While these instances are rare, they may cloud the relationship when calculating the CAC. The first company (Example 1) has a poor metric.

Acquisition 145

Acquisition Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Advertising 145

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights. Refund Policy.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

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

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re still learning what world we’re in — some people interview over Zoom, some are focused on how to build teams in the current age, and many are dealing with a weird overhang from the SaaS explosion of 2021, quiet quitting, layoffs, and team turnover. The last thing a VP of Sales wants to do is start without a team.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales Interviewing 159

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. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey.

Scale 156

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

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 275

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 275

Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors. We all have a great team and support network behind us. If you don’t respect your partner(s), your team won’t last long. Self-funding Investors Startup Loans.

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Underperforming Technical Team Entertainment Company Culture Social Media 145

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

If you could visualize your data and share your findings with key team members? Power BI service: With the Power BI cloud service, you can view reports created in the Power BI Desktop service and share them across the company. per user per month, Power BI Pro gives you access to the cloud-based service. Import Your Data.

Marketing 114

Marketing Social Media Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 114

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

She manages a huge global team. There’s not that many people that have been the first salesperson in to managing a global footprint at a cloud leader. 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? Four, people in the sale?

Merchant Services 262

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 262

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The Challenge That SaaS Companies Face: Failed Operations and Limited Growth Opportunities Despite being a financially lucrative space with investors and startups, the SaaS industry is littered with thousands of failures. Cloud-based solutions with distributed data centers can help ensure a seamless experience for users worldwide.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

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. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020.

Payment Solutions 217

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 217

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 24, 2024

In today’s moving software development arena the DevOps movement stands out as a game changer bridging the gap, between development and operations teams. With the rise of cloud computing DevOps has gained a partner that has propelled its growth and reshaped the landscape of application development.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Application Development Underperforming Technical Team Cloud 40

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 213

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 213

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

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. Wrike is a versatile and comprehensive project management tool, perfect for startups and businesses of all sizes. It’s not just a platform for startups and solopreneurs, either.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 110

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the event that there is an issue, it’s resolved quickly by the managed WordPress hosting support team. A customer identifies a problem or makes a request, and WP Engine’s support team gets it done. WP Engine runs on Google Cloud Platform, which allows you to leverage nearly bottomless resources anywhere in the world.

Management 137

Management Technical Review Outsourced Development Engineering 137

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Getting Started with SaaS App Development. Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 97