User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Obtaining (and acting on) users’ opinions of your product through user feedback and interviews and more. So, in addition to improving your customer retention rates, these customers help grow your customer base and drive revenue growth. However, most UX designers will tell you that empty states are an example of poor UX.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. What is a SaaS business model? Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. Interview them. "AI-developed content can’t touch it [original research] on quality and value for a B2B audience," she says. 

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And those teams really wanted APIs and web hooks and event logs, and those developer things.

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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 They were acquired by private equity.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Our team is in Room 111.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Monetization. Next is monetization.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

It provides an array of features such as: Analytics Post scheduling Engagement measuring Social listening Custom report Campaign monitoring Additionally, Sprout Social has many integrations, including Canva, Dropbox, and Bitly. View how your audience engages on your social media platform, allowing you to adapt your strategies.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

Perhaps they changed course, entered a new industry, or simply encountered problems with generating enough revenue and had to reduce expenses. Such as the conclusion of a project, a poor match, or a firm changing course are considered non-regrettable churn. Surveys may also be integrated directly into the cancellation page.

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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. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product. If a process doesn’t stick, don’t hesitate to move from it. Rohini: Sometimes the word “process” gets a bad rap. Michelle: I find that, too.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. Interview them. "AI-developed content can’t touch it [original research] on quality and value for a B2B audience," she says. 

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B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 59

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Predictable Revenue. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Buyer-Centered Selling. Hacking Sales.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. 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.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Richman’s former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Billing may not be one of the most exhilarating parts of your company, but it is one of the most important parts of your business…it is how you get paid. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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 about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed.

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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. I say profitable as we are using our client's’ financial data to determine what to pay, or often not pay, in the digital advertising platforms we manage. Geoff: Someone once told me. Geoff: 50%-95%!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. How do you help your team make that link to value?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 191

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. What’s the sequence?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Setup Pricing model and payment gateways. Find quick platforms to launch your MVP. Get a webinar or interview session plan with your industry expert. Plan Social Media Integration with your SAAS Business. Use monitoring tools to identify business emotions over the internet. Create your product demos.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Email blasts – Keep your business top-of-mind with regular emails to your mailing list. Giving back – Offer to donate a dollar amount or percentage of sales to a charitable organization. Understanding your customers’ motivations is key in developing content strategy, products and improving the customer journey.

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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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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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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 learning the true value of user growth frameworks as I worked through a handful of startups, constantly learning and iterating on ways to grow a business.

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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. And, yes, in a few of these conversations your customers might say that they have new business for you, too, but don’t you bring that up. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. So, understanding what they do within your product is critically important for: improving new user Acquisition improving user Activation maximizing and increasing Revenue improving user Retention encouraging current users to refer you to new users, etc, etc.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 63

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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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

With this knowledge, the product team can create individualized product walkthroughs that point users towards the key UI elements that they need to learn. The size of your business affects two factors that should be a part of your decision: How much budget you have to spend on customer analytics software How many seats you need to purchase.

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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. CRM platforms. What is inside sales?

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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. Through this process, you will uncover potential opportunities that go beyond backlinking, such as cross-promoting each other’s email lists. At the same time, you will get an easy backlink.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

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