SaaStr

MAY 10, 2022

Companies that capitalized on these unique circumstances, however, have emerged stronger than ever by innovating new ways to sustain their business. 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. . Discover opportunities.

Travel 267

Travel Revenue Underperforming Technical Team Scale 267

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” If there is no innovation and you’ve maxed out your existing TAM, you’ll start slowing down. You can’t sell hype. Gong is best-of-breed.

Scale 307

Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 307

Totango

MAY 17, 2024

CS professionals have a choice: Embrace AI and harness its potential to drive innovation and growth, or remain hesitant and risk falling behind in a rapidly evolving landscape. Slow support response times : When support teams are slow to respond, customers escalate concerns to CSMs, leading to increased workload and decreased efficiency.

Innovation 98

Innovation AI Underperforming Technical Team Scale 98

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

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. One, at every large company, there is an innovation budget. There’s an innovation budget in the CIO’s budget. That’s a great example.

Scale 296

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 296

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. I think the foundation of high performance teams is that they share five things.

Scale 215

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Scaling Leadership 215

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. On innovative, beautiful design? Do you compete primarily on price? On simplicity?

Branding 209

Branding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Airlines 209

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Announcer: Up today, the secrets of market timing, how to develop the right idea at the right time with Allen Gannett, author of The Creative Curve. Those are bad answers, and while you do that, I’m going to have a sip of water. These are bad ideas. This is where the cloud meets. Allen Gannett: Okay.

Underperforming Technical Team 245

Underperforming Technical Team Development Marketing Trends 245

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

VP of Engineering 299

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 299

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2020

What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. What you really want if your deal size isn’t tiny are at least somewhat qualified leads for your team to follow-up with. At least a handful will be looking for a newer, more innovative vendor.

Underperforming Technical Team 208

Underperforming Technical Team Content Marketing Innovation Investment 208

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

In meeting many of these innovative businesses, I’ve observed they face three strategic questions. Classic agencies don’t value the software enough to engender pricing power, develop fast sales cycles, or change the operations of their business to maximize the value of the ML innovation.

AI 190

AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 190

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. It is a logistics and multi-selling platform which innovates how e-commerce can grow in the region. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. Founders : Max Armbruster.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2021

Hmmmm … well, to me, that’s not a bad place to be once a space, a category, gets to $100m+. With less capital and a tighter team … you won’t be able to spend as much on marketing. You’ll have to develop a very lean sales culture. But the bottom isn’t all bad. Easier to Innovate.

Scale 257

Scale Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Pricing 257

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. They are innovative. They can help you innovate, move fast and keep focused.

Engineering 212

Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Consulting 212

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. When building a product, organizations are solving a specific need. That’s a mistake.

Development Team Review 263

Development Team Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SMB 263

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation. As founders, we want to make categories and innovate, but it’s usually better to do it in a bucket. Leveraging Your Team When You’re Away As a CEO of a company with $200M in revenue, you have to leverage your team.

Sales Hiring 278

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 278

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

Underperforming Technical Team 179

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Innovation Startup 179

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 21, 2020

I’m going to show you how creating a culture of transparency and celebrating our failures transformed our sales team and brought huge success to our entire org. Here at Lucidchart, my team of enterprise sales reps has a weekly ritual called Fo’Real Fridays, and it’s all about celebrating and learning from our failures.

Underperforming Technical Team 121

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Sales Development 121

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. The team has grown quite a lot, but it’s still tiny: we’re now close to 40 people in 13 different countries. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

Sales Hiring 184

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But should you build your own in-house marketing team or hire an agency partner? Digital agencies are companies that help other businesses perform a specific function such as marketing, development, or design. They act as a substitute for an in-house team, serving the same labor function but outside of the organization.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 145

User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. The Analogy product ideation process helps you find innovative product feature ideas through analogies.

Underperforming Technical Team 86

Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience Interviewing 86

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The best way to do that is to develop the right behaviors in your sales reps. There are many things that can drive revenue growth within your company, but as a sales leader, it all starts with your team. Here are five key areas to challenge your team on in order to grow both them and your company. You have to be a sales LEADER.

Underperforming Technical Team 102

Underperforming Technical Team Development Revenue Sales Hiring 102

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. Making the shift from maintenance to innovation.

Engineering 214

Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

OpenView Labs

JULY 1, 2020

IT teams scrambled to respond to the work-from-home lockdown by developing new procedures for provisioning home equipment, deploying new collaboration tools, beefing up their VPN networks and redesigning their service desk support procedures. There’s a Difference. If Phase I was a sprint, Phase II will be a marathon.

Underperforming Technical Team 86

Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Compensation Leadership 86

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. Catalyst Sale enables organizations to build and deploy top-notch sales teams through training and enablement. Learn how to develop a full array of selling skills: from asking the right questions to using the proper apps. Links: Website , iTunes.

Scale 111

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Social Media 111

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. We need to have an innovative go to market model. Before we go there, I want to talk about the customer.

Scale 55

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 55

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t.

Underperforming Technical Team 120

Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks CTO Hire New CTO 120

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Developed societies are depopulating all over the world, across cultures – the total human population may already be shrinking. We believe this is the story of the material development of our civilization; this is why we are not still living in mud huts, eking out a meager survival and waiting for nature to kill us.

Underperforming Technical Team 29

Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence VP of Engineering Technical Review 29

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the race to win a customer’s business, it’s not really about how good your product is – it’s how fast you keep innovating. Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Paul: Yeah. Some of this cut deep.

Underperforming Technical Team 249

Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Sales Hiring Scale 249

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. Michiel Rauws: And luckily our innovation is very innovative, so people invite us to speak for free.

Scale 272

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 272

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. I think this is important for product teams for two reasons. ” Des Traynor: Yeah.

Artificial Intelligence 249

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search AI 249

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Your new book, Conversational Design , is out on abookapart.com on March 6. Erika: Absolutely.

Underperforming Technical Team 198

Underperforming Technical Team Education Development Startup 198

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Innovating for People. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Selling to Big Companies. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales. B2B Is Really P2P.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, app developers can implement a hybrid authentication setup in tandem with Social Logins if needed. Weak or reused passwords are often the culprit. No matter how well educated the end-user is, human nature always leads to poor security hygiene and compromised security standards. Less Stress on IT and Support Teams.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B Innovation 105

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Define your ideal customer profile.

Scale 177

Scale Strategy Sales Underperforming Technical Team 177