SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects. You assembled a talented team, built an amazing product, and established a growing SaaS business. Mix in the classic conflict between sales and marketing teams, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

Sales Hiring 202

Sales Hiring Marketing Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 202

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

Underperforming Technical Team 291

Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Communication B2B 291

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 3, 2020

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. sales enablement: how strong are the materials sales teams use to pitch? Comms Marketing.

Underperforming Technical Team 340

Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale Social Media 340

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Case study: Resolution Bot.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Underperforming Technical Team Development 281

SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

The First Rule About Building Software Is Wrong “If there’s one rule that almost everyone universally agrees with about building software, it’s that focus is really important,” Conrad explains, citing Silicon Valley luminaries Bill Gurley and David Sacks who consistently advocate for narrowing your focus.

Startup 157

Startup Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cloud 157

Incredo

MARCH 20, 2020

The Incredo team switched to a fully remote working system in September 2019. At the beginning it was a bit hard to track the progress of tasks and communicate with team members effectively. Since you started working from home, your whole team already saves around 1 hour of their day.

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Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Systems Review Software Review 227

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent. Every leader needs to have a strategic playbook to build high-performing teams and retain top talent,” says Guan Wang, Global Director of Market Intelligence for Snowflake. . Stage 3: Employee Development. The Playbook For Building And Retaining A High-Performing Team .

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Acquisition Company Culture 246

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

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Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 210

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

Sales Hiring 261

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 261

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

sales team. We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. This is where I got my chops in growing and scaling enterprise sales teams. Good afternoon.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A product analytics strategy is essential for any business looking to make informed decisions about product development and user experience. Plus, there are many reasons why you need a product analytics strategy: Aligns product development with user needs and business goals. Lack of team resources. Outdated technology.

Strategy 105

Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Government Customer Lifetime Value 105

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. The transcript highlights the major trends in software of 2023. Machine Learning is a Secular Platform Change & a Growth Driver for Software The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it.

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Azure Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 256

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. If you don’t work to keep your knowledge of the market fresh and current, you may be left with a narrow view that will inevitably catch your sales and product teams flat-footed. Verify product-user fit.

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Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 284

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Should your sales engineers also implement the software? Should your sales engineers also implement the software? However, we knew that this wouldn’t be the right move for mParticle.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 123

FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. Are you using accounting software? So one of the best tactics that most people won’t do is to point out the weaknesses in the business. Blake Hutchison (29:53) Our churn rate is poor, but we actually know why. And I’ve done that.

Scale 120

Scale Entrepreneurship Scaling Underperforming Technical Team 120

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

Scale 206

Scale Outsourcing Services Software Sales Hiring 206

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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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 293

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

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

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. I was a software developer, a product person.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 339

SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Growth exposes your weaknesses, and it will cause more problems than it solves – until you make sales scalable. Develop a culture of initiative, not adequacy, by embracing employee ownership. From Impossible to Inevitable helps you take impossible goals and turn them into inevitable successes for your business and team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Revenue Development Software 254

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2024

They supply their customers with a full marketing suite and customer data software for thousands of SMB, e-commerce businesses. There wasn’t software that did this back in the 2010s when Klaviyo was founded. And we actually asked them, like, well, what software matters, and they all said marketing. Is there a downturn?”

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Revenue Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 307

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

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. Similarly, unhappy customers are more likely to tell others of their poor experience.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

FastSpring

APRIL 24, 2025

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. And so I think there are a lot of self-taught developers that just don’t know. And I’m giving that a bad description.

Business 107

Business Software Review Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 107

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.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payment Services Software Review Software 145

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 293

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity 293

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

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. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

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. And they ought to develop that pricing power. Third, how to employ the labor force?

AI 203

AI Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 203

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. 2 It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster. Go-to-Market is expensive and labor-intensive.

Generative AI 293

Generative AI AWS Artificial Intelligence AI 293

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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DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team Scale 130

SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team 191

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

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 261

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. On this week’s episode, I caught up with Steli to chat all things sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales 184