SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : 2016. Jason : 2016. And then, we ripped it out and Aaron went and talked to some of the top SaaS companies from today and added the case studies. Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? Maria : Yeah.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

In a recent Act-On and Demand Metric study completed in Q2 of 2016, less than 20 percent of mid-size B2B companies relied on solely inbound or outbound strategies; 84 percent of respondents used some mix of both. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS. TechnologyAdvice. So, how did it go?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. 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. Loving our podcast content? What did he mean by this? Why is this?

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Upscope

JANUARY 10, 2019

SaaS metrics like LTV to CAC ratios are simpler to understand when you see real examples and why they're important. Companies developing their idea and in the early stages of generating revenue will see these metrics bounce around like an oompa loompa. Seen on an annual basis, a 10% customer churn is bad. 50 is 10% of 500.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. That is the question.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We had them on the podcast way back in 2016, and they’ve even been a guest contributor to our book Intercom on Onboarding. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer. Back in those days, and this was like over 10 years ago, the developer would get a Photoshop file that had all of the different interface elements.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? So tell me, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We are an early stage VC, mostly focused on SaaS all over Europe and and beyond. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. But that’s not bad. Good afternoon everybody.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s delve into the key benefits of concept tests: Build Lasting Customer Relationships : When you actively involve your customers in the development phase, it’s not just about getting feedback. Then, respondents answer the same follow-up questions, granting you deeper insights into each idea’s strengths and weaknesses.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. And honestly, right now literally is the worst time to raise VC funding I can think of since 2016.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dave has gleaned some valuable CRO insights since he founded Browser to Buyer in 2016, which he shared with FastSpring CMO and Growth Stage podcast host Dave Vogelpohl in our latest episode. I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. How the hell does that happen?

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

As a Founder, successfully raising capital for your SaaS company is one of the most important, and hardest, jobs you have. One of the most difficult parts of the capital raise process is determining and deciding when and why what types of SaaS capital are right for your business. Top Types of SaaS Capital. Typical Amount.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. In these SaaS businesses, your people are most likely your greatest asset. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to their IPO in 2016, Twilio had raised over $250m in VC funding from some of the best in venture including USV, Bessemer, Salesforce and Techstars just to name a few. How did Sameer enter the world of SaaS and come to be CEO @ SendGrid? * How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 million in 2013 to $115.9

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Dropbox was the fastest SaaS company ever to hit $1B in ARR. And what an almighty King it is!

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Whitney made her way into the world of SaaS originally with Box and how that led to her coming one of today’s leading COOs with HelloSign.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. Get your tickets to the SaaS show everyone will be talking about! My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you missed episode 122, check it out here: Tips for Building a Diverse Team of High-Quality Salespeople with Wesley Ulysse. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement and help carry the load to help keep your team doing what they do best, winning. We’re on iTunes.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

Floyd points out that by 1969 Sears was the largest retailer in the world, but 2016 marked “the sixth year of a $10.4 In the world of SaaS it is common for sustaining growth to be harder than attaining initial growth. That’s what we’re covering in today’s post: 12 actionable ways to reignite your SaaS growth. Analyze metrics.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. It’s an SMB SaaS company in the healthcare technology vertical. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. A practical example of a dual-axis chart usage In this example, the dual-axis chart compares sales values and profit margins for each year – from 2016 to 2021. Analyzing team performances.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. Traditional Sales Growth vs SaaS Sales Growth. Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. SaaS Growth Rate. Calculating Growth Potential.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I suggest we probably aren’t.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing.

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

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