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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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ProfitWell vs. Baremetrics

Baremetrics

We’ve dissected the Baremetrics vs. Stripe debate, as well as Stripe vs. Braintree , Chargebee , Chargify , Gumroad , PayPal , Recurly , Shopify , Zuora , and ProfitWell. Proftwell’s Retain: This is designed to reduce involuntary churn due to credit card failures. We’ve compared Chargebee to Recurly and Zuora.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. The owners tend to be thought leaders in their industry and operations are developed with department heads and teams working under them. Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

Kellblog 2022 Predictions Review Let’s start with a review of last year’s predictions which, as it turns out, were pretty good. The diligence pendulum : FOMO gives way to FOFU. Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high.

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Product-led growth: AKA what you should be doing | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

The traditional approach to SaaS growth involves building a product, then hiring a sales team to sell the product. Product-led growth is a bottoms-up approach in which your company develops a methodology that enables people to discover and adopt your product on their own. Uber, Dropbox, and PayPal are some examples of this.

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April 23 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Collaborate with the internal teams and drive the part of customer success. Collaborate with the internal teams and drive the part of customer success. Manage existing portfolio growth by reviewing merchant operating model and Identifying expansion opportunities.