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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. They started as pay-as-you go and pretty SMB / PLG. A lot of UserTesting customers want flex pricing.

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

Tom Tunguz

HubSpot’s target customer base are SMBs and with this price point, it’s possible to support a profitable inside sales model if the team is very efficient. CTCT 2007 9 31. HubSpot is the second fastest SMB SaaS company to IPO yet, achieving the mark within 8 years. RNG 1999 14 162. QLYS 1999 13 91.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I went down the hall, met with the head of marketing, and I discovered a lot about in bound SaaS, about SMB, the importance of building this machine as I call it now that generates all these lovely leads. They all looked at me really weird because remember, I’d never done SMB before. Liberate some operating expenses.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

About the episode: Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously worked with Upfront for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. How should early-stage startups approach the topic of pricing? Does Dave agree with David Skok on the need for more than 1 variable pricing mechanism?

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. It was a lot of fun to take what I’ve learned building an enterprise type business and applying it to SMB.

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Moving From Mid-Market to Enterprise {Part 1} – Product and Market Readiness

Sales Hacker

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. SMB and Mid-Market orgs don’t have an analytics department with data scientists, so the technology fills the gap. SMB products tend to have similarly less flexibility or customization capability.

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SaaStr Podcast #376 with ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: “10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (Part 2)”

SaaStr

What does pricing and packaging look like? Do you segment enterprise and SMB? Back in the day in 2007, maybe no one was going to give you 10 million in the seed round. Henry Schuck: It’s a multi year commitment, and I think the other piece around this is, great, you launched your product. And are we clearing messaging it?