User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. Instead, it involves several key aspects, including: Product functionality : The software solves the problems it was designed to solve.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old. “Look, here’s enterprise software. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT .

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. 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? Getting the team right is so key here.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. Pricing is really difficult, so these athletes are complex. So the pricing… Jesse Paliotto (17:59) interesting. And of course, we need to know how those businesses work here at Flippa. And I’ve done that. The category is different.

Scale 118

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 118

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

How many software review sites are you present at? Why software reviews are your best friends and why you need them? #1 Bad reviews teach, good reviews sell Not all of your reviews will be positive. And you know why people are subscribing to your software. When something goes wrong, it’s time to voice what happens.

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Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Velaris – pricing is only available upon request.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Trisha Price. You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below.

Payment Solutions 217

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 217

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2019

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. Consequently, product market fit is weak. Second, how to price the product relative to the competition?

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AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence 203

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. Software demand is softening. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong.

Scale 296

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 296

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Luckily, data analysis software can seriously simplify data analysis—provided you choose the right one. How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection.

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Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Everyone I work with uses document management software, and you should too. Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Here’s an edited version of Mark’s top ten enterprise software startup mistakes list, along with a few comments prefaced by DK. You should leverage backdoor references.

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Sales Hiring Startup Software Review Enterprise 144

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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

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

JANUARY 27, 2024

As a core part of Matt’s philosophy, people need to have their own domain and run open-source software because it allows them to control the entire stack of what they’re putting online. WordPress is its own ecosystem, a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of people who create add-ons, plugins, and develop sites.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 332

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

DataOps are the architectures and software developed to do all of this at scale, in an agile, responsive manner. You’ll want environments for developing DataOps, for testing and analyzing, and for going live. This prevents your data from becoming skewed by bad development or bugs. How to Implement DataOps.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Pricing: Is the pricing model transparent, and does it offer a free trial or a freemium version?

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Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

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. ” The other side of it was just protection. to Close.com. Short on time?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184

SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I considered the four companies and chose Gorgias based on my experience with their team during the interview process. When I first joined the Gorgias team, there were two founders, two engineers, and myself as the first non-technical hire. Additionally, a high close rate means you are able to run your team with greater efficiency.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Underperforming Technical Team 287

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. Sure, we’ll give you a million dollars a year, but you basically have to build custom software. Jason Lemkin: But usually your teams can’t do that.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

And in cases where our customers get stuck, our support team responds in a timely manner with personalized video. How SoStocked increases retention through grandfathering existing customers into lower prices. When you raise your prices, don’t raise them on your existing customers,” co-founder Chelsea Cohen explains.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Wordtune’s customer research survey Wordtune uses this targeted survey to gather insights into the types of software its users use during work hours. The survey aims to better understand users workflows and help prioritize product development initiatives, like new integrations, that add the most value to its users.

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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. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 263

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. Applying data and science to scaling has become easier because of the shift that’s happened in the software industry over the past 15 years, from outside sales to inside sales.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

If your SaaS business has a sales team, there’s no way to grow 100% year-over-year without also growing your sales leadership. Knowing the common pitfalls won’t stop you or your team from making them, but it will help build the most important skill any manager can have: resiliency. SaaS = Software that scales. Overwhelmed.

Scale 184

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 184

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. Campbell is probably one of the world’s foremost experts on pricing. In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

Before joining Intercom, I worked exclusively as a consultant engineer, and got a broad range of experience first with an extremely large consultancy firm and subsequently with a very small client services based software house. A “fixed price” contract means that the price is agreed at the beginning, regardless of how long it takes.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. In this top-rated session Dharmesh Shah, cofounder and CTO of HubSpot, shares how he and his co-founders broke all of the “rules” and ended up creating an entirely new category of marketing software. Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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OnStartups

MAY 18, 2021

All the points below have been pulled from startup sales teams that I think work pretty well (including the team at CRM software company, HubSpot). Building Startup Sales Teams. They’re not bad people, they’re just different from you, especially if you're an introverted geek like me. Don't say you weren't warned.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Startup 110

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Because besides getting the software interest in the software company, you also need to basically acquire tablets for each room. Yuri: So that’s the other burden in terms of getting the software up and running. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product.

Scale 275

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 275

User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes. We’ve got you covered!

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Software Management SaaS 105

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox. So instead of making it free, that lack of price sensitivity took us the other direction.

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VP of Engineering Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 196

FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 113