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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? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight.

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

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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

ProfitWell

RevOps isn’t new—some form of revenue operations has been around for a very long time, it simply lacked a title. MRR is the best way to start measuring revenue but as you grow, different metrics will come into play. MRR is the best way to start measuring revenue but as you grow, different metrics will come into play.

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

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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How to Strategically Score Customer Health to Drive Startup Growth

OPEXEngine

Drive new levers of growth. Through this work, it can drive new revenue opportunities. 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

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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? If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner? million, call it 50.