SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. Jason Lemkin: Well, we admire, but also she’s very early in the micro VC trend. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 210

User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! If you take this ability to not follow the herd and the experience, you can spot trends. When you think about it, when a trend is early, everybody thinks you’re wrong. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

The current pandemic is dramatically accelerating all of these epic trends, as businesses are being forced to do more with less. The businesses who are thriving right now, despite increasing support volume and a mandate to cut costs, are the ones investing in this new way of doing customer support. The Conversational Support Funnel.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. So that’s easy.

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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. If you’re growing quickly and making a lot of sales hires, you might invest earlier. Not every leader is created equally.

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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. The first stage of an ideation technique involves gathering ideas from different sources such as feature usage trends, feature requests , customer reviews, user behavior, and competitor analysis.

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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.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

And so these are all sort of the financial reasons why it makes sense to invest the time and energy to actually create champions from day one in your business. For example, if you’re getting ready to close the deal, sales team’s pretty darn excited. How is it trending? How is that trending? Here we go.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2021

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. But conversational support doesn’t just benefit your support team. Teams that benefit: Sales, marketing.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Web developers spend their time on sites like ArsTechnica, Reddit, SitePoint, etc. SEO, PPC, Social media).

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User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 22, 2020

How do you remain knowledgeable on trends concerning your target industry or audience? It’s also one of the hardest to teach and develop. You don’t want a rep who bails on every sale at the first sign of trouble, but you also don’t want someone who never lets a bad sale go. When do you decide a prospect isn’t the right fit?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As the president of Sales Xceleration, a firm specializing in assessing and implementing sales strategy , sales processes, and sales execution to drive growth, I’ve seen how job hopping can affect otherwise stable sales teams. But also the cost it has on their careers — and your sales team. This trend especially impacts sales teams.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

How do you build out a Sales Development (SDR) function at your SaaS company? Establishing a baseline for successfully doing outbound with the existing sales team you have is critical before investing in a dedicated SDR function. Start in-network and with the networks of the existing team. At Brex, Sam hired Ashley.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That’s why the team at Sales Hacker decided to put together a statistics round-up showcasing how things changed in this year and where they’re likely headed in the future. Still curious which sales trends will be on the rise in 2021? Keep reading for the most important sales trends your revenue organization should keep a close eye on.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. I say investment strategy, but really it’s like how do you build a company that’s focused on product-led growth?

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. Financial services (75%), high tech (70%) and telecommunications (67%) have the highest saturation of dedicated sales enablement teams ( Quark ).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. When you’re a small team, your time is everything. Speed is everything.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Have you noticed one of the latest and growing trends in the worklife? You will never again worry about investing thousands of dollars in paid ads and receiving nothing. And those that require initial investments aren’t regarded as reliable partners. In our case, we needed to invest a lot in product development.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

But boy, I can tell you from all the companies I have invested and worked with that have a hardware/software component, it really actually gets brutal as you scale. There was another company I invested in called Automile, that for a while was quite successful in SMB fleet tracking, tracking where your fleets of vehicles are.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. The whole point of conducting market research is to understand typical consumer behavior , pain points, and relevant market trends in your chosen niche.

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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. Want to see more content like this?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Google, for example, has an ads business, a vertically integrated hardware business for the Pixel and Google Home, a developer platform in Google Play, an enterprise SaaS product in Google Cloud, consumer subscription with YouTube Music and YouTube TV, and many light marketplaces like Google Shopping and Google Flights. Trust and Quality.

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Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

How Merchant Underwriting Works The merchant underwriting process typically follows a few steps carried out by the payment facilitators or acquiring bank to develop an underwriting risk profile. Both processors and merchants face significant challenges: Challenges for Payment Processors Underwriting teams can have their work cut out for them.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Keyword research and industry reports are two ways to track market trends and identify arising opportunities. Talk to the developers and engineers.

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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. It’s a confluence of a whole lot of different trends.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2020

Enabling sales teams — whether through a formal sales enablement function, channel, or informal process — is critical to any business. A formal sales enablement function ensures that your teams have the tools and insights they need to be successful in the field. Building the Sales Enablement Function. But as a leader, be prepared.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Vertical software companies, a recent important trend in SaaS startups, pursue customers only in a particular industry. in venture investment before going public six years after founding. These are the strategies I’ve observed: All vertical software companies develop uniquely focused products.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. This episode is sponsored by Linode. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage. Emilie : So, yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

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. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2021

So what is the trend among the few who grow their careers from individual sales contributor to leader ? Leaders must set the example for their team , and the most fundamental skill to exemplify is a commitment to working hard. The best leaders stay consistent and encourage others to do so as well, even on their bad days.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Bad customer support: Poor customer support leaves customers without help or thinking their complaints are not taken seriously.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

COVID-19 has put many businesses in the tough position of choosing what to cut rather than where to invest. This gives sales teams a big opportunity to fill that gap and build a long term relationship. According to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report , best-in-class SDRs generate $415k in pipeline per rep every month.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2019

Traditionally, each division within a company has its own operations team, each of them reporting to the functions they serve. In each of these cases, the teams’ priorities are set by their respective leaders. You see, coordination becomes challenging when operations teams aren’t tightly aligned around a single mission.

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