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Benchmarking Hubspot's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

CTCT 2007 9 31. In 2013, the company recorded a sales efficiency of 0.47, meaning about $2 of sales and marketing spend is required to generate $1 in gross profit and the payback period, the number of years before a customer's revenue offsets the cost of customer acquisition is just over 2 years. RNG 1999 14 162.

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Product-led Growth: What It Is and Why You Need It

Totango

SaaS businesses adopt product-led marketing to lower customer acquisition costs while improving customer retention and accelerating revenue growth. Sales conversion: use of the freemium product motivates the customer to upgrade to a premium version. In this blog, we’ll cover the essentials of product-led growth.

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Benchmarking LinkedIn's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

In 2007, the Premium Subscriptions generated 53% of the revenue. Meanwhile, the number of paying customers has grown from 900 to about 25,000 in that time. To acquire customers, LinkedIn employs two customer acquisition mechanisms: an online acquisition team and a field sales team.

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How Yelp drove down churn by building up customer success

Intercom, Inc.

She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Our Director of Customer Support Kaitlin Pettersen recently spoke with Kayti about her experience setting up Yelp’s customer success organization.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. It’s not a well known moniker, but generally speaking, these are companies that have achieved initial revenue traction and are really in a position to accelerate their customer acquisition, go to market.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. It’s not a well known moniker, but generally speaking, these are companies that have achieved initial revenue traction and are really in a position to accelerate their customer acquisition, go to market.

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