SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You know how everyone says you'll never look and wish you'd kept a bad VP as long as you did? Because to scale, you are going to need to add a true management team, and then a second one, and then layers of management. The fewer weak hires they continue to make. The less they slow down feature development.

Sales Hiring 269

Sales Hiring Part-Time VPE Scale Underperforming Technical Team 269

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

How should you handle presenting challenges to your C-suite team when you’ve just joined the company? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. The bad news is it wasn’t driving the results they wanted.

Scale 278

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Revenue 278

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Product-led companies face a long road as they attempt to manifest themselves from having abstract vision to millions in revenue. Jeff Bezos says that customers are always unhappy; they always want more. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

Underperforming Technical Team 290

Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 290

User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Plus, there are many reasons why you need a product analytics strategy: Aligns product development with user needs and business goals. Lack of team resources. Outdated technology.

Strategy 105

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Government Customer Lifetime Value 105

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. That’s exactly how Yelp approached its growth journey, under the leadership of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Local Revenue Kayti Sullivan. Why you need a customer success team.

VP of Engineering 108

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Do you have two sales teams? Who gets what part of the long-term development budget? And most importantly, multiple products can be very distracting at the management team level. The new product tends to dominate the discussions, yet by definition, is only a tiny percent of the revenues in the early days.

Underperforming Technical Team 356

Underperforming Technical Team Cloud Revenue Acquisition 356

Stax

MARCH 16, 2025

As a SaaS business leader, reducing software user churn is an important part of maintaining your customer base and increasing revenue. Key metrics include customer churn rate, revenue churn, and net revenue retention (NRR). Happy customers bring referrals, fueling organic growth. Looking to measure churn?

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Churn SaaS Payments 88

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

As a result, satisfying customers is key to any success in SaaS. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. The reverse is true for unhappy customers.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2024

These nine sales concepts, when done correctly, will greatly improve your sales and sales teams. #1: Most people think you need to hire more salespeople in a demand-poor environment. Demand-poor environments lead to problems like: Sales reps clinging on to opportunities for too long. That’s the wrong answer.

Sales Recruiting 296

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Outsourced Development 296

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

The path to Cheif Revenue Officer (CRO) is different for many people. Tracy Young , CEO and co-founder at TigerEye, sits down with three CROs to talk about how they navigated the journey to revenue leader. Shifting from an operator and loving operations and data to a sales and revenue leadership role felt like a big jump.

Scale 305

Scale Underperforming Technical Team SMB Finance 305

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Revenue Operations is at the forefront of a paradigm shift — to view the buyer’s journey as a seamless thread across multiple people, systems, and value propositions. This involves driving more new logo and renewal revenue, lowering customer acquisition cost, and increasing forecasting predictability. Simple right?

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Engineering 138

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. to be the sales engineer during the sales process and then stayed on with customer post sale to manage the implementation process. Should your sales engineers also implement the software?

Underperforming Technical Team 123

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 123

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). In fact, it was first created as an analytics tool, and only in recent years has it also developed an engagement suite. The alternative?

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

Customer Success 159

Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 159

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. Winning the trust of your customers may take time (and can be lost in a fraction of that time), but earning that trust is essential to success.

Underperforming Technical Team 49

Underperforming Technical Team Business Scale Business Model 49

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

They kept the focus on the core value proposition of helping teams write, plan and collaborate to create better workspaces, while still having the AI inclusion. Bad: We use AI to streamline sales workflows. Better: Our AI automatically categorizes, prioritizes, and drafts replies so reps can focus on revenue.

AI Search 89

AI Search AI Scale SaaS 89

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: You certainly can hire a whole content team and build 10,000 pieces of content, but I will tell you what I have always seen work is one incredible piece a week. Whether it’s technology or sales, revenue, marketing, you can outsource the edge, you can outsource integrations, you can outsource experiments for sure.

Scale 298

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 298

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

Sales Hiring 245

Sales Hiring Education Scale Strategy 245

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Equip every customer-facing person with the capabilities of how to do prospecting, proper discovery, and managing customer success. It’ll be a better experience for customers and the company. Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. It’s a playbook you’re developing, and it’s not easy.

Scale 311

Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 311

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. Lastly, he provides his piece of advice to all founders that are looking to become customer-centric. We hired everybody on our teams. So I start with a simple question.

Scale 321

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Engineering 321

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. The promise of SaaS was healthy profitability at scale and yet we see companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue burning cash. In return, they will spend a certain number of hours per month with your team.

Scale 298

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 298

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This is a guest post by Sara Barnes , vice president of Customer Success at Skilljar. Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. In fact, customer education helps scale Customer Success , as the company scales business. .

Education 98

Education Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

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.

Sales Recruiting 195

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 195

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Software Management SaaS 105

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

No regrets are things that especially in recurring revenue companies, you’ll look back and say … well, I knew I should have done that at the time, and it wasn’t crazy hard, and it would have helped a lot … but I still didn’t do it. What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4.

Sales Hiring 230

Sales Hiring Venture Capital Scale SaaS 230

Totango

MAY 15, 2024

From the urgent need for organizations to operate like startups to the surprising disparity in AI adoption between CS and support teams, these experts didn’t hold back. 1: For CS to jump ahead with AI, teams will need to operate like a startup Startups are known for their agility, adaptability, and willingness to experiment.

Customer Success 110

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team AI Technical Review 110

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

Not too long ago, customer support was viewed as a cost center, not a value driver. It was seen as a necessary part of a business, but not something that drove revenue or influenced customers’ buying decisions. Study after study shows how important a great customer experience is to today’s consumers. That time is over.

Technical Review 222

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Customer Support Marketplace as a Service 222

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Theyquestion the status quo, and relentlessly pursue their customers’ success, using ChurnZero software to power their initiatives and achieve breakthrough results. We’re delighted to introduce the winners of the 2024 ChurnHero Awards for customer success! Here’s who they are, and how they did it.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

It’s quick, efficient, and personal, meaning that customers can get the answers they need, where and when they need them. And for your support team, using the right conversational support tool and framework allows them to maximize their resources, so they can focus on solving complex queries and building long-term customer relationships.

Underperforming Technical Team 129

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 129

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. Average revenue per customer.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

ChurnZero

APRIL 9, 2021

Customer Success is fueled by customer interaction. In honor of Stress Management Awareness Month, we invited Ryan Johansen, Customer Success Director at RapidMiner, to share his experience dealing with extreme burnout and show us how to survive and thrive under the pressures of being a Customer Success professional.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Company Culture 98

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Ryan points out that many of the largest SaaS companies target enterprise customers that use longer contract lengths, so their churn rate will be lower.

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

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.

Sales Recruiting 332

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customer Success represents a large source of revenue-generation for SaaS businesses. Though Customer Success was originally regarded as a post-sale cost center, you can flip its narrative with the right metrics, positioning, and forecasting strategy. Cost centers do not directly generate revenue for the business.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Customer Success Metrics Sales Funnel 98

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. As the introduction said, I’m the Chief Customer Officer at New Relic. We thought it would have a business opportunity of around about $100 million in revenue. We work with mostly modern teams. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Roger Scott | EVP @ New Relic. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Scale 235

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 235