SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making. Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Even for fully-staffed marketing teams, it can be overwhelming. In this case, look for an email marketing agency that is exceptional at developing strategies and tactics to help increase your open and click-through rates. A Great Company Culture. So, before you proceed, check that their company culture fits with yours.

Marketing 111

Marketing Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Scale 111

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2019

Outsourced Sales Development. Without a sales development team, you can find yourself struggling when it comes to pipeline generation. For SMBs, this is a pivotal decision: Do you hire an in-house sales development team or work with an outbound partner? The Four Costs of In-House Sales Development.

Outsourcing Services 99

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 99

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Let’s break down these definitions so we know where we’re at: SAAS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. SAAS-like: any number of different models where a business sells software to businesses online, but does not charge via a subscription e.g. transactional or pre-revenue.

Marketplace as a Service 106

Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

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. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture. SOC 2 101.

Scale 211

Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. You have to continually take a pulse of your team and how they’re feeling. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. At the exact same time, that company hadn’t moved basic applications to the cloud.

Sales Recruiting 210

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 210

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

Interviewing 76

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 76

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Later they expanded to serve a larger population of developers as they scaled.”. At Chargify, we agree.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Today, subscription fitness yet again pushes the limit. Your top subscription news. Because working remotely for product teams is not the norm. But as the shift to remote work happens in product, teams will need to make changes to ensure everyone’s continued success. Subscription fitness gets even stronger.

Underperforming Technical Team 41

Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Subscription Payment Features 41

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Sam has over 16 years of experience in consulting, product management, and leading customer success teams. Bloomfire allows teams to improve productivity and customer centricity by creating a self-service knowledge base. If implemented well, it will have mutually beneficial outcomes for the company and customers.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 40

Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer development interviews. Customer development interviews, on the other hand, give marketers a clue about what their customers really want or need. Intuit regularly conducts customer development interviews to test design changes and new features. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. They built their first company and sold it when they were teenagers. Your registration.

Scale 154

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 154

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Three developers: Tim, Isaac, Jose.

Underperforming Technical Team 177

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 177

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Second, why does Krish believe it is one of the most important things any company must do?

Scale 160

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

263: Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. How to build an engineering team. And there is a danger point where you start to be seen as more of a services company than a software company. Jon Herstein.

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 155

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 2, 2025

Imagine investing time and money into a flashy new software, only to find your team struggling to use it or it failing to address your core needs. SaaS tools are cloud-based software applications provided over the internet on a subscription basis. For businesses, SaaS has become the go-to way to equip teams with the latest tools.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Technical Review 52

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

Customer Success 137

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 137