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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. What is a Customer Acquisition Strategy?

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The New SaaS Metric You Should Be Tracking

OpenView Labs

There weren’t any tried-and-true methods for measuring the health of a business with revenue that cost quite a bit of capital to acquire, and then paid itself back over long stretches of time with annual (or monthly) contracts. Think monitoring customer acquisition costs (CAC), LTV: CAC and the magic number. Why do we love PLG?

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Teddie : And also we’ve seen the BI market that’s been acquisitions at the last. If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. And then the next one that we best now is proving a business model. And so it’s interesting to see how that has changed.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. I mean we targeted the academic market, which is a horrible business model.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. Cisco’s growth is often referred to as the ‘growth by acquisition’. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. A noteworthy contribution by AI has fortified cloud security. billion by 2022. Eventbrite.

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3 Go-to-Market Insights from Kenny van Zant at SaaS Office Hours

Tom Tunguz

He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. After BroadJump, Kenny built the go to market organization at Solarwinds, a $4B market cap infrastructure software company, and Asana, a fast-growing productivity company, both of which exemplify a unique go-to-market approach, Flywheel Model, brilliantly.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

You’ve had a number of roles at Salesforce since you joined the company back in early 2002, from product management to startup relations. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API. Business models are in your favor in terms of hosting, deploying the product and ultimately scaling.

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