SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

It just doesn’t work as a metaphor anymore to describe how people really buy and describe how modern organizations really scale. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. It’s got to scale on the back end. We’ve got to buy it.”

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

Scale 147

Scale Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales 147

Scytale

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the compliance requirements of running a startup? As a startup founder trying to build your new organization from the ground up there’s a ton to do – And one of the commitments is keeping security compliance regulations and industry standards, and all that red tape! You’re not alone.

compliance 59

compliance Systems Review Development Team Review Startup 59

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

This allowed a passionate audience to develop – and built enthusiasm ahead of the books’ full release. They allow for massive scale and provide a captive subscriber audience that you can upsell. Give us a feel for your career to date: what brought you to Clearbit, and what’s the mission of your team there?

Data 182

Data Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 182

Scytale

JUNE 12, 2024

Although the evolving tech landscape can yield unprecedented opportunities, it presents formidable challenges, especially regarding security compliance. Organizations and regulators are now forced to rethink their attitudes towards innovative (albeit risky) solutions to many of the gaps in traditional compliance processes.

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compliance Technology Artificial Intelligence Blockchain 52

Unbounce

MAY 17, 2022

How does the KlientBoost team do it? Too many conversion-happy marketers race to split test poor hypotheses and arbitrary landing page elements before setting their landing page foundation first. Pairing that strong foundation with Unbounce’s Smart Traffic to scale performance and reach client goals faster. Why multiple steps?

Scale 145

Scale AI Search Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Thanks to SaaS solutions, businesses can easily scale their workflows, eliminating the need to install programs locally or pay for expensive licenses. Vertical SaaS solutions are tailored for specific industries, addressing niche needs with in-depth customization and compliance with industry standards. What is Vertical SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Additionally, our diversity-first team has grown to more than 30 top-notch talents (you are an incredible team of people, each and every one of you!)and

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SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

Scale 97

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 97

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The GTMfund team has been spread across the globe lately, big things happening! The rest of the team is playing catch-up from SaaStr followed by our annual GTMfund retreat in Napa. Because Innovation inevitably (but not exclusively) goes down as you scale. Solution: Build functional teams that drive innovation.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring Technical Cofounder Scale Sales Recruiting 98

Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news? What is a SOC 3 Report?

compliance 52

compliance Underperforming Technical Team Scale Technical Review 52

A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” What are the fundamental forces that transform organizations at scale? A team of one is brittle, but fast. Why do they never succeed? Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

Scale 61

Scale Government Scaling Sales Recruiting 61

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

I hosted Elad on the podcast for a conversation that ranged from the key themes of his new book to scaling a healthy culture and ins and outs of mergers and acquisitions. You have no idea what the people in the management team are really thinking about. If you enjoy the it, check out more episodes. The second is employees.

Sales Hiring 120

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 120

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds.

Technical Review 204

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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.

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DevOps as a Service Application Development Underperforming Technical Team Cloud 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. What is Tradeshift really? Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

Payment Solutions 156

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 156

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

And in cases where our customers get stuck, our support team responds in a timely manner with personalized video. It’s not always a bad thing to be priced higher than your competitors — it can signal to prospects that yours is a premium service. Just make sure your monthly cost is reasonable for small teams.

Merchant Services 110

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 110

SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

How do you scale SaaS startups from the seed stage to mature industry leaders? 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. You’re in luck.

Scale 76

Scale SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting 76

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

It just doesn’t work as a metaphor anymore to describe how people really buy and describe how modern organizations really scale. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. It’s got to scale on the back end. We’ve got to buy it.”

Scale 111

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 111

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

Software Review 128

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 128

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 125

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 125

Chart Mogul

APRIL 12, 2019

One of the most exciting and important moments for a product and engineering team is when you grow beyond 2-3 contributors to as many as 10-15. In my experience everyone is full of energy, is positive and is engaged — but with more hands on and ideas on the development lifecycle, there is more room for risks and roadblocks.

Software Review 65

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 65

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. Nick Mehta: That’s great.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

User Pilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Free plan available for startups and small teams. Collaboration tools : Leave notes, annotate replays, and share them with your team for better alignment. Data privacy protection : Ensure sensitive user information is masked or omitted to maintain compliance with privacy regulations. Includes free trial for paid plans.

Enterprise 77

Enterprise Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Frontegg

JUNE 24, 2021

This self-service authentication solution also has an active developer community. PingZero can be easily customized to match a wide range of use cases and the support team is doing a great job of ironing out installation and integration issues. Looking to upgrade your Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) capabilities as you scale up?

Identity management 103

Identity management Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 103

Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service SaaS Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 52,000 revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and scale their companies and careers. With Vanta Questionnaire Automation, go-to-market teams can complete security reviews up to 5 times faster, helping you close deals in less time than ever.

Leadership 98

Leadership Artificial Intelligence Scale Sales 98

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Userpilot is an all-in-one growth platform that helps product teams boost key metrics through contextual in-app experiences. Zendesk is an AI-powered customer service software that helps CS teams manage support tickets from one hub. Totango is a customer success software that assists CS and sales teams to increase customer revenue.

Customer Success 95

Customer Success Software Management SaaS 95

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

Audacix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These weak points, if left unaddressed, can be exploited by hackers as an entry point for launching cyberattacks, infiltrating systems or data, or causing harm to an organization. Remediation Planning: Software teams need to develop a remediation plan that outlines the steps required to mitigate each vulnerability.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise Software Management 40

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

Enterprise 131

Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 131

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale. There we have it.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

As a result, it can be easily scaled to accommodate a growing customer base without any drop in quality. While at it, you may even identify weaknesses in the current journey. How can I reduce the workload for my team? Data security and compliance. If you do, iron them out and create your ideal map before you proceed.

Onboarding 84

Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Transportation Scale 84

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Unexplained networking issues with latency between our machines that DigitalOcean’s support team never cleared out (this was critical for our Postgres read-replicas lag, Redis instances, and HA in general). The most important ones were: Flexibility in auto-scaling compute resources. Team expertise. Managed databases.

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K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52