Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

VP of Engineering 108

VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. Grocery is the largest retail category in the U.S.,

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 113

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 113

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. By the end of this guide, youll have a clear understanding of each platforms strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases. Lets dive in! Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Your sales team.

Scale 131

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales 131

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

Scale 101

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 101

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace. You should check out the services of Neil Patel Digital. #2 3 WebMechanix — Best For All-In-One Services.

Sales Hiring 144

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 144

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service. Let’s go… Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Third-Party Sites to Build a Website.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 171

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 171

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. What “customer success” looks like evolves as your company and customers scale upmarket.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Sales Hiring Strategy 177

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. This made for a great vision, but was practically untenable from a data or scale perspective. Sounds expensive. Let’s cover each below.

Scale 139

Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it.

Scale 98

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. Instead, pursue the ones best aligned with the services you offer and your target audience. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers. Let’s start with B2C.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

In the last decade, a few major things have happened: Emergence of new platforms with incredible scale (from Facebook to TikTok). Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2020

As digital first companies (and teams) we are in a really good position to get creative about fostering community online whether with clients, colleagues or family. Can you elaborate a little bit for our audience about how exactly you guys work and what exactly are the services that you offer? We come in and really help people do that.

Underperforming Technical Team 37

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Scale Investment 37

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. 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.

Scale 113

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 113

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? Everyone’s always like, “how did you guys scale so quickly,” and like, everyone loves this product. But it worked.

Investment 113

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: .

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

As the world’s population grows – and that population migrates online – bots are increasingly being used to address the challenge of helping businesses scale. “There are all these prospective customers, but businesses can’t scale at the same rate, so they need automation” Paul: Right. Chatbots shouldn’t just ape web forms.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

And yet, downplaying your team’s needs undermines CS’s current impact and future revenue-driving potential. According to our 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study, CS teams are already underfunded and under-resourced. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace.

Customer Success 98

Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A widely held view on strategy in the 1980s defined two ways to compete: firms could pursue either a low-cost advantage (usually through scale) or a differentiation advantage (by building intimate customer relationships). But there was also a major drawback: an inverse relationship between scale and intimacy.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 40

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: When evaluating clients, the biggest thing Bailey and her team look for is whether the organization is willing to give up control. Find the people who are 10-out-of-10 passionate about your product or service , because they will evangelize your brand more powerfully than you can do alone.

Underperforming Technical Team 116

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Marketplace as a Service Investment 116

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. In that priority meeting we look at, these are the customer requests, this is the number of developers, we can do five things, which are they?

Payment Methods 160

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 160

Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. After all, you want them extract value out of the products and services you sold them. #2. Every interaction your customer has with your team is an opportunity for conversation.

SaaS 74

SaaS Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale 74

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. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. It starts with self service. I felt like there was an easier way to communicate goods and services online, digitally.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 147

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How to build a more diverse team [24:50]. Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. Modern sales teams, winning deals using 6sense. Show Introduction [00:09]. Sam’s Corner [34:03].

Scale 117

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 117

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. the ability to offload more IT tasks to a remote vendor.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to Salesforce’s recent State of Service report, more than half of service providers will be adding chatbots to their lineup in the next year and a half. This is a start, but to stay ahead of the competition in today’s sales world, sales teams need to start utilizing AI much more than that. Salespeople are busy.

Scale 104

Scale AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence 104