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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Loving our podcast content?

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Emilie : The way I see it, the bar is higher because on the … because of education, there has been a metrics war. So what we see when our companies are pitching to investors is that you know what metrics investors will open the email. Everyone probably knows all the metrics that Jason talks about.

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Demystifying RevOps with Chargify’s Michael Klett and ProfitWell’s Patrick Campbell

ProfitWell

MRR is the best way to start measuring revenue but as you grow, different metrics will come into play. They will help align teams and all the different metrics. When Co-founder and CTO of Chargify , Michael Klett isn’t brewing his own beer, he’s crafting billing experiences. You need a RevOps team or manager focused on revenue.

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How to Strategically Score Customer Health to Drive Startup Growth

OPEXEngine

“Ultimately, health scoring is just another tool in the toolbox; it’s not a command center,” says SaaSWorks ’ Head of Operations Michael Redbord, who previously built HubSpot’s first customer health scoring system back in 2012. “It You’ll need someone familiar with your data—perhaps a CTO or someone responsible for business operations.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And we’re constantly aligning the metrics in that business plan back to the technology and understanding which dials we need to turn, which types of implementational product feature functions do we need to use that will directly equate to these types of things. As announced today, that’s a public metric.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And, you go in the wayback machine to 2012, when I started Amplify, Amplify one was me and $49.1 What about, as someone who’s gone from your own solo GP fund in 2012 to a team, how does a founder think about a new partner? Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.” million, call it 50.