SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Marketing, design, and product teams work to optimize one end of the funnel at the cost of the other. The value of a competent growth team lies in unifying these functions and working with aligned goals. If you have product market fit, don’t wait to implement outbound. Hire a CTO and unify the entire data function.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So you were the first sales hire. Talk to me about the sales hires that you made back in the early days and talk to me about how it changed through the different stages. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. The very first few sales hire are I would say not your typical reps. Laura Bilazarian : Awesome.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Or if you have products that require some configuration–think about Salesforce, Segment, things like that–someone needs to set it up. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. If you're really starting from scratch, do the product.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Since we’re big fans of customer interviews, and because we didn’t want to make this article too subjective, we’ve also included the perspective of other 8 business owners, marketing managers, and growth marketers that agreed to share their know-how with us. With a product like ours, customers come in many shapes and sizes.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Since we’re big fans of customer interviews, and because we didn’t want to make this article too subjective, we’ve also included the perspective of other 8 business owners, marketing managers, and growth marketers that agreed to share their know-how with us. With a product like ours, customers come in many shapes and sizes.

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Interviewing B2B Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Casey is active in the SaaS space- growth strategies, industry insights, and SaaS trends. Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. He is a SaaS sales & marketing enthusiast who shares his insights on the same on social media.

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