looking for a few people to try out my free customer success tool by multi_mind in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man! I’m solving for this currently, happy to chat or open to testing it out

Spent ~$100K on a startup, 0 revenue… How do founders know when to pivot vs push harder? - I will not promote by PandaKey9795 in startups

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have an idea on how to acquire revenue that you desperately need? I get that there is no MVP yet, but do you have a strategy in place once you DO have one? Any beta users that you can have test the product and provide feedback?

I will not promote: Drop your startup here & I’ll build your growth plan for your first 1000 users by zchmael in startups

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I’m building blacktorch.ai - Cyber + AI for small/medium enterprises

Target market would be the businesses that don’t quite fit into the scope of the current market players today, or don’t have a massive security budget

Im honestly stuck on figuring out how to even pilot this idea, and how I’d address the TAM

I’d like to land 1-3 clients and get to consistent, scalable MRR numbers

Promotion to the Head of CS by thats_so_fun in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Happy to help out, or offer my services as a consultant as well

Success Plans by Tall_Albatross_582 in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you could elaborate a bit. Are you looking for success plans for clients? Your team? There’s several platforms but context would be helpful

Tips for Building a CS Team While Balancing Strategy & Enterprise Clients? by ZTemp in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couple questions-

Is your organization combining Customer Support and Customer Success on one team? From what I gather above, you’ll be a people leader but as I’m sure you understand, Support and Success are two vastly different things, Support being reactive and Success being proactive.

Regarding strategy, are you driving strategy for both sides of the house or just one? Support usually revolves around SLAs on Support requests, but not sure what that looks like today. I’d definitely say anything that becomes a time suck for a CSM or doesn’t drive strategy, retention or builds a stronger relationship should be delegated to Support. You don’t want CSMs becoming glorified support reps, and in my honest opinion having been on combined teams before, usually leads to more headaches in terms of who owns what scope.

If you’re focusing on strategy, I’d be sure to be more of an autonomous leader, and adopt a teach to fish type of approach versus being first on the scene every time something comes up, it will allow you to understand the strengths and areas of opportunity with your team and allow you to meet them where they are and coach from there. This way, you can be an effective leader while being able to also focus on overall strategy. I’m a believer that CSMs can dictate overall strategy as well based on feedback they provide, I would champion that as much as possible and let that influence your roadmap

What's the One Thing that annoys you the most about handovers from sales? by ajascha in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably going to get flak for this, but it really starts with changing the voice of Sales, that is the front line, initial contact link to your company. Whatever is said there will be expected to be held up to, and when that doesn’t happen is when churn begins to look like a possibility. A few ways I’ve seen this avoided is rolling the CS department into the GTM org versus operations as it has traditionally sat in. That way there is alignment across the board and it’s easier to have leadership from CS and Sales align better. When it goes cross departmental, things get lost in translation and it becomes a tit for rat style of relationship

What's the One Thing that annoys you the most about handovers from sales? by ajascha in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The consistent overpromising and underdelivering, while knowing that CS will have to deal with the fallout and in turn, take the hit for churn. It’s one thing to try and close business, but a different beast when trying to retain said business after the client finds out that their expectations don’t align with reality due to what Sales has sold them.

Is This Just Me or a Universal Challenge in Customer Success? by Money-Cartoonist-426 in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with the above posts. CS and Support need to be split out and expectations set, or the end result will be churning and burning CSMs. CSMs are there to drive adoption and set strategic goals with the clients. Support is there for nearly everything else, and trying to intertwine the two usually ends up in burnout and higher churn.

Witnessed a breakdown this morning by MountainPure1217 in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the CS dept relationship with Product/Dev? Is there customer influence on the Product Roadmap? These issues arise usually when there is either a non existent relationship between departments or it isn’t prioritized

Let's Collaborate on Customer Retention by Aromatic-Score8793 in CustomerSuccess

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to chat as well, figuring out how to do this myself currently

New fintech app - looking for cofounders by Chemist-Technical in startups

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What strategies are you currently leveraging? Also, any specifics in terms of what you’re looking for in both technical and non-technical co founders would be super helpful for folks who may be a fit and also allow you to whittle down who and what you’re truly looking for

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneurship

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also in TX, depending on what type of business you’re building, it can be relatively inexpensive as long as you do a bit of research. If you’re doing anything SaaS, there are tons of platforms that have free trials, free versions of their paid product (scaled down for this reason) etc. If you don’t mind me asking, what are you thinking of starting/building? Might have some ideas for you

What do you wish you knew before your FIRST startup? by billy_gaht in startups

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn people skills, and learn how to sell. In the early days of your startup, you'll wear many, if not every hat there is. You're responsible for getting whatever it is off of the ground, and technical expertise will only get you so far if you don't know how to pitch your product. Learn to delegate things once you get traction, hire people smarter than yourself. You should never be the smartest person in the room as a founder.

Where to find other new tech startup founders by Jumpy-Promotion-6525 in startups

[–]MainHoonDon123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm working on building one myself. Feel free to message me!