SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

Drift co-founders David Cancel and Elias Torres share their insights on steering a company to a $1 billion valuation. Lesson 1: Everything is about your team. Every startup needs strong team dynamics to pull through tough times. It’s all about the team 99% of the time and 1% product and process.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The underperformers who aren’t putting in the effort get a conversation, and if things don’t change, it’s not a good fit. Jameson and Sam also recommend that across the org: sales, marketing and CS — the early and sooner you can get the entire team re-focused on creating their own pipeline, the better. Guess what?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. A company’s values sit at the heart of its mission. That doesn’t make them bad people. Most valuable employees will want to grow and develop new skills.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The success of an executive team often depends as much on their interpersonal harmony as their professional expertise. How does a team establish rapport with one another? Algolia’s Bernadette Nixon (Chief Executive Officer) and Michelle Adams (Chief Revenue Officer) have spent the past few years developing this relational toolbox.

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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.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Throughout his many years working and learning at companies like Adobe and Highspot , Perera has built a five-step roadmap to help others achieve this alignment. . From the get-go, ensure alignment between sales and marketing teams on goals and anticipated outcomes. Create dynamic alignment on goals. Deliver one narrative.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Recovery from COVID has taught us that adapting and learning how to thrive in new ways in the face of change, whether good or bad, can lead to exponential growth. . Develop a well-defined vision. If you have a comprehensive, compelling vision, it will be easy for your teams to trust it and rally behind you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2022

The developed world revolves around e-commerce. In a crowded field, how can SaaS companies prove themselves and shift from being completely irrelevant to their markets to delivering services their market and buyer personas value? Embed innovation into your team’s DNA. Hire people who share your company’s values.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Key Performance Indicators are a series of measurements which allow a company to track the success of their operations in relation to achieving their goals or objectives. They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. Reviews of teammates’ conversations.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. Bitly began in 2008, right around the time that other link-shortening companies were starting.

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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Crafting a culture of mentorship across your company. There are three overarching areas to consider: Leveraging mentorship across your team.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. This way, I don’t have to worry about anybody else taking my big idea, ending up in a bad partnership, or getting sued because of misinformation.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And we’ve got this megaphone called social media, that every single customer can talk about a great product experience, and they can also talk about a bad one. For Slack, it was one that a team sends 2000 messages. We raised 30 million bucks, we can expand the team. I’ve worked with hundreds of teams on this.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors. That’s why I’ve founded so many companies — I can’t get enough. We all have a great team and support network behind us. It’s a great way to live.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. Maria : Oh, I’ll take the number one thing to improve your culture. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. Maybe it’s just the wrong company for them.

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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. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. Talk: Panel on Best Practices of Hiring for Culture Creation.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe.

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Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Cultivating customer loyalty requires a larger investment: where B2C SaaS customer service issues and loyalty programs may be handled entirely through automation or tech support and sales staff, B2B customers may require automated and manual support from a customer success team. What Are Keys to Cultivating B2B SaaS Customer Loyalty?

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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.

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Panintelligence

JUNE 7, 2024

In this blog, we asked Panintelligence CEO Zandra Moore and CTO Ken Miller what they think are some of the most frequent mistakes in SaaS development and offer actionable insights to help you steer clear of them. Where companies get it right is when they prioritise culture and investment around people. We’re complex.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. We all know that it can be incredibly difficult to call out microaggressions or biases when you see them, particularly when you believe they weren’t meant in bad faith.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Write down your principles (like your mission statement) and use it very early for guiding culture and decision making.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

In my experience, getting caught up in shiny objects (like great numbers) during the hiring process is a straight line to Disasterville, and when the cost of a bad hire is painfully significant , it pays to take a measured approach. Also: What are the top performers in my current team doing? This is a team effort.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A Well-rounded Team. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative. For that reason, the analytics agency that you work with will need to have a diverse set of team members who are both analytical but also creative.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2023

In this episode, we dive into this renewed trend with Tito Bohrt, the CEO of AltiSales, the one-stop shop for world-class sales development. He also shares how company culture impacts productivity and morale, primarily within sales teams. AltiSales takes company culture quite seriously.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2020

Your organization has a unique culture. Good or bad, planned or not, it does. And as a leader, it’s your responsibility to lead by example and help shape the company culture. So, how do you know if you’re doing the right things as a leader to make your sales culture an asset, rather than a liability?

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ChurnZero

APRIL 9, 2021

Q: How do you manage the new instant message (Slack, Teams, Skype, etc.) work culture that’s emerged from remote work? A: I’m the most anti-Slack/Teams person ever. Q: What should you do if your company culture causes part of your stress? If you’re having a tough day, develop a couple of things.

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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?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 17, 2021

Serena joined us six years ago and has become an integral part of the engineering team. What is the weirdest hobby you developed during quarantine? Sometimes, if I’m having a bad day, I think I would love to become a gardener or something. Are you interested in joining the Intercom team? Check out our open roles.

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