Scytale

MARCH 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll walk through best practices for getting audit-ready, from getting your documentation together to prepping your team. Security: To validate your information security controls and ensure sensitive data and systems are properly protected. Ensure all teams involved understand what is in scope for the audit.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app. Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. What is user trust? This is the power of the first impression.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both. What is SAAS marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate. I also interviewed dozens of SaaS founders and marketers to understand the main factors behind high SaaS churn rate.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. Qualitative Data Gathering: Surveys and Exit Interviews. Next, let’s look at how to develop a churn-reduction action plan. Update Your Dunning Management System. What Is Negative Churn?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

How to build a winning sales team. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. We’re on iTunes.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. What made you want to be a part of this consultancy?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Sprout Social Sprout Social is an all-in-one solution that helps you manage your social media accounts while finding and connecting with the people who love your brand. Additionally, Feedly lets you prioritize subjects and events vital to your marketing so that you can share those insights with your team. There are four pricing plans.

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. But what happens if the power fails between the main power system in the data center and the cabinet where the two power strips are?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. 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. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. The Challenger Sale.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Adjust your pricing model to accept deferred payments for highly-impacted industries. In good times or bad, your go-to-market strategy must change with the demands of your market. Image source.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. You may deal with each of these situations by developing a customer offboarding procedure. Exit Interview or phone call: Calling clients could add a more personal touch. Step 2: Learn from the Churn.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. Hopefully it will be communicated during the interview process. The people who are self-aware enough, as most CFOs are, would say what their weaknesses are in the interview process.”.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Partnerships – Backlinking strategies typically involve some form of outreach to develop relationships with relevant websites in your niche. Ego bait – Ego baiting involves creating content that is directly about the people you want to get a backlink from, such as an interview or including them in a list. Content Creation.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. We’re more than just a software. What is a pricing audit?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Even startups can make great use of in-app analytics to adjust and refine their products to ensure Product-Market Fit. Why is Product Analytics important?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

SaaS, or software as a service, is a subscription-based model where customers pay subscription fees for services such as Dropbox, CRM, or perhaps Mailchimp, and this is how the companies earn monthly recurring revenues (MRM). And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service. Payment Method may not work.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? Maybe they’re early in their career.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. That’s why one of my favorite interview questions is, “What are you passionate about?”

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

You may need a third party to do these interviews for you so that customers feel like they can be completely open. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Develop subscription models.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. I would be very happy to interview XXXXX as well (and to drill him a bit on the technical, hardcore finance stuff) if you think this would help to make up your mind (have done it for several of our portfolio companies before).

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. You can stream the full episode below or read highlights from our conversation.

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