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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? As you scale, your win rate — the % of deals you close vs. the competition — should go down. The post The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue appeared first on SaaStr.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. She can be your CTO forever. As are you.

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We are building for the long term – that means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow. . As these existing customers have grown, and we’ve welcomed bigger and bigger customers, we’ve always focused on saying yes to scale. . We’re growing alongside our customers. Can Intercom do that?

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High NRR Can Scale Infinitely. Invest More There.

SaaStr

But the vast majority of the top SaaS and Cloud companies have shown top-tier NRR can scale forever. The post High NRR Can Scale Infinitely. Bill.com sells to SMBs and it also saw its NRR expand post-IPO. Zendesk’s NRR here: There will be exceptions, of course. Probably even to $10B+ in ARR. So there are no excuses.

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Managing Product Feedback at Scale

As with all things related to customers, there’s an art and science to effectively dealing with each of their ideas. With so many voices competing for attention, you need a means of effectively dealing with all of the data that will come your way.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are The Signs We’re Ready to Hire More Sales People to Scale?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What are the signs that an enterprise SaaS startup is ready to scale by hiring more sales people? The post Dear SaaStr: What Are The Signs We’re Ready to Hire More Sales People to Scale? In the early days, it’s simply that you have a few more leads than you can currently handle. appeared first on SaaStr.

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5 Secrets to Product Velocity as You Scale with Drata’s VP Product

SaaStr

How do you scale a product organization quickly? 5: It’s More Than Just Product When thinking about scaling your product organization, look for three pillars. You want to build that from the ground up before you scale. That combination of three pillars will help you scale. 1: Ship Fast.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Key topics will include: Getting started: the "crawl" phase of ABM and its boundaries Unlocking the potential of the "run" phase and using the right strategy for scaling your efforts The essential components of an effective ABM tech stack within each stage Real-world insights from NetSPI's ABM journey with MarketingOS

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How Collecting and Managing the Voice of the Customer Will Strengthen Your Product

Unfortunately, even the most sophisticated organizations often lack clear strategies and processes for collecting and managing the voice of the customer at scale—or worse, they simply ignore this valuable source of data. What better source of insight into what those are and how they’re changing than your customers themselves?

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MLOps 101: The Foundation for Your AI Strategy

And for those who are already underway, scaling their results across their organizations is completely uncharted waters. Many organizations are dipping their toes into machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). However, for most organizations embarking on this transformational journey, the results remain to be seen.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

In most cases, the COVID-19 crisis has sped up the desire to engage in digital transformation for medium-to-large scale enterprises. Roadmaps are rarely implemented without challenges.

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The Ultimate Gartner Report to Driving Growth & Recurring Revenue

In 2023, companies are looking to improve their revenue and drive sustainable growth by scaling their subscription offerings, to increase the rate of growth and resilience by moving from one-time sales to recurring revenue.

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Build Trustworthy AI With MLOps

In our eBook, Building Trustworthy AI with MLOps, we look at how machine learning operations (MLOps) helps companies deliver machine learning applications in production at scale. For businesses that are AI-driven, this trust hinges on the confidence that their AI solution can help them make their most critical decisions.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Scaling Your Startup and Getting Funded: Key Lessons from Seasoned Pros

Speaker: Brian Chang, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus & Scott Schwan, Chief Product Officer of A-LIGN

Scaling your SaaS business to the growth stage requires a strong product/market-fit, an optimized marketing funnel with repeatable sales processes, and a strategy for customer retention. Navigate roadblocks to scale and maintain focus on the long-term vision. Land marquee customers and build loyalty with them.