SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

The reason why it’s such a vital metric is that it has a greater affect on your business. For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. It’s an app store optimization tool. All of these metrics directly tie back to churn. First, is MobileAction.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Ari : Millions of dollars in lawsuits as an eight person company and you need them to give you an amount of money that’s roughly equal to that.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. All the typical SaaS metrics can be indicative of potential … though some less so at this stage. A: Very few of our early-stage investments have a Customer Success team at the time we invest.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. That was February 5th, 2019. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. They had to reinvent themselves.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. This is an example just of the oil market compared just from April 2019 to April 2020. Maybe you want to launch a business.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Ideally, both metrics should be in the single digits, if not below 5%. The Quick Ratio, unlike other metrics, tells you how dire the situation is. Thus, the early churn.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Working with over 800 startups, many of which I’ve formed personal relationships with, has taught me a lot about what actually moves the needle to improve retention. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Quick Ratio.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Customer Success Goals: Cohorts, Metrics, and Prioritization.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

This podcast is an excerpt from Robert’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. And when I was young, I used to travel the country with him setting up his market store to sell clothes.

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