Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A recent Towers Watson study revealed that businesses with a strong employee experience sustained a 4% bump in revenue while those with a poor experience saw revenue fall by 1%. Investing in Employee Experience results in higher employee retention and increased performance. Development Programs. 6 Elements Of A Strong EX.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Data Sales Hiring 52

SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. HR Core —to manage payroll and employees.

SaaS 76

SaaS Scale Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting 76

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 40

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

**We should note that utilizing Sean Ellis’s product/market fit survey, NPS (net promoter score), and activation and retention rates are important elements of implementing metrics and analytics. The higher the activation and retention rates, the greater the indication that this is a must-have product. Scaling prematurely.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Her department is responsible for onboarding, support, services, and retention of Bloomfire’s customers. 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.

Customer Success 40

Customer Success Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 40

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 31, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA, US Organization: Salsify As a Director of Customer Success, you will supervise, build and expand the existing Customer Success strategy to enable each member of the team to be the best-trusted advisor for the customers.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Leadership 19

SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. POLICY #4 Recognize Your People Integrate recognition into your culture and watch your teams flourish.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. POLICY #4 Recognize Your People Integrate recognition into your culture and watch your teams flourish.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Company Culture Compensation 10

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. Hundred percent revenue retention, 200% revenue growth. Option A is we can go have awesome revenue retention, 100% revenue retention, but mediocre growth. Option B is awesome revenue growth, 200%, but mediocre revenue retention, 70%.

Scale 265

Scale Sales Hiring Revenue VP of Engineering 265

SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Before taking action to prevent departures, you must meet with each team member and quickly assess the likelihood that they would leave and the potential harm that would result if they do. Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams.

Acquisition 10

Acquisition Customer Success Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. These create more meaningful relationships with people on your team, uncover what motivates them and as a result increase their impact and engagement in their current role. What’s your current development focus?

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Underperforming Technical Team compliance Development Engineering 223

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. I’m actually a big believer in it, to an extent, if it’s a healthy ratio, given its ability for customer success and retention. Ugh, services revenue.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 290

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. Write it down, share the rough draft with your team, debate it, prioritize it. This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.

Scale 237

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 237

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. It’s also about remembering nobody knew earlier on what could be the size of a SaaS company.

Payments 133

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 133

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Do I have the right team? And also because some people are good at different phases of the company. And just because someone was a right member of the team last year doesn’t mean they’re a right member of the team next year. Right, there’s about 10 or 15 drivers you need to fully model a SaaS company.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Scale Startup 173

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 157

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 157

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. I often get founders that say to me, our engineering team or our product team, they’re quite disconnected from the founders.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 152

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” What does this mean for the processes used by marketing teams?

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DevOps as a Service Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kolton Andrus is the Founder & CEO @ Gremlin, the failure as a service startup finds weaknesses in your system before they cause problems. Dylan Serota , Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Terminal, the startup that helps you create world-class technical teams through remote operations as a service. What are the pros and cons?

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Education Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?

Sales Hiring 248

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 248

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. Jen Nguyen: And really, I think companies should really focus on the fact that both current and future employees will be closely tuning in, on how companies navigate through this change and then adopting a hybrid employee choice philosophy.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 208

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. We had a pretty big team.

Sales Hiring 152

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 152

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Customer Retention. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding. The Cost of Bad Fit Customers: The $1.2M How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy.

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