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

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. We started development in early 2004. What are the goals?

Scale 345
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14 NPS Survey Best Practices For SaaS: How to Leverage NPS Surveys

User Pilot

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a customer satisfaction metric measured on a 10-point scale. The NPS metric is calculated by deducting the percentage of detractors from the percentage of promoters. Treat NPS scores as more than vanity metrics; always analyze the results you get and act on them. The 2022 NPS benchmark for SaaS is 41.

Scale 86
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Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS

ChurnZero

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Since then it has been used heavily by companies, both large and small, to assess customer satisfaction and has become an important metric for growth-driven technology businesses. In some industries, this number can get as high as 80%.

Scale 95
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Engineering Customer Success Processes for Maximum Impact

Valuize Consulting

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Or perhaps not. The state of customer success processes. Implementing lean customer success.

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The NPS (Net Promoter Score) Does Not Work Any More: Here Is Why!

SmartKarrot

If any B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) company, or any company for that matter, had to choose one metric that measures their performance among the dozens of metrics, it would be the NPS or the Net Promoter Score. The NPS was developed in 2003 by Fred Reichheld of Bain & Company as a customer loyalty metric.

Scale 10
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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. This was in 2003 or 2004, and we were spending $2B dollars a year in research which is nothing by today's standards but it was for the most that was being spent at that time.