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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. Jason : And two things, I founded EchoSign because we had SMBs and enterprise customers. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. I mean, literally.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical. We’ll talk about some of the stuff that you do as you grow your team a little bit and then we’ll sort of wrap it up with some advanced stuff.

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PODCAST 90: Key Mistakes Companies Make while Building their Skills or Revenues w/ Justin Welsh

Sales Hacker

Justin is the former SVP of sales at PatientPop and a current advisor to it, as well as a tremendous number of SMB SaaS companies. Justin helped build the sales team in ZocDoc. He then went on to help build PatientPop to over 60 million in recurring revenue and now he’s consulting to SMB businesses.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high. Companies who sell to SMB may see increased amounts of uncontrollable churn as customers cease operations. Frequent readers already know that Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is my favorite book on corporate strategy.