Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit. billion from 2019 to 2020. It truly has been a team effort. Instacart is a case study of this.

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 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. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 109

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This gives sales teams a big opportunity to fill that gap and build a long term relationship. According to TOPO’s 2019 Sales Development Benchmark Report , best-in-class SDRs generate $415k in pipeline per rep every month. Many people forget that selling is a team sport, especially where BDRs are concerned.

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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. Emilie : So, yes.

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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. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 208

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team AI Search 156

Unbounce

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Back in October, we were the first to claim that 2019 will be the year of page speed. Let’s take a closer look at this update and explore why it should play a role in your page speed strategy in 2019. 4 (October 2019). That’s why we’ve made page speed our priority into 2019. It’s almost too easy to understand.

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Underperforming Technical Team Mobile Benchmarks User Experience 111

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. What happens to growth?

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Keeping tabs on all this great content is never easy, so we’ve compiled a Best of List with top webinars from our team and partners, to guide you into the new year! In this webinar, learn how to move beyond the bottom line and build capacity in your team. Key topics include: How to identify poor pipeline hygiene.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting B2B 62

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Note: This article covers CAC in detail. How to calculate CAC.

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Acquisition Underperforming Technical Team Startup Customer Lifetime Value 91

SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. Learn more about SaaS revenue recognition in the video below: GAAP Financials and Accurate Metrics. The worst part?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lack of segmentation leads to weak product-market fit. This, in turn, signals potential churn, difficulties getting new sales reps productive, below-average win rates, weak pricing power and never-ending product roadmap discussions. One simple metric I use is the expected ARR per opportunity in a segment.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. See how you can put your sales teams in the best position to win now at revenuegrid.com/saleshacker. Callie Moriarty: Hi Sam.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Systems Review 82

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

WHEN : December 9–13, 2019. 2019: LinkedIn’s #1 B2B Sales Expert to Follow. In this session, she’s going to share 2 of the skill sets you need to thrive as a modern seller and give you strategies to implement them in yourself and your team. In fact, it’s the ONLY metric that matters. COST : Nada.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For example, if 90% of your detractors have complaints against your customer support team, you can take action to improve your customer support, such as creating an in-app knowledge base. This means you should develop strategies to keep them engaged and satisfied with your product’s performance. NPS bar chart.

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Underperforming Technical Team Benchmarks Trends Cloud 98

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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Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

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

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 162

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. The goal of variable pay is to develop a performance-driven culture in which your sales team is financially accountable for results.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? the stuff that Customer Success teams are really meant to do). As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 18, 2023

If there’s a story to tell from 2022, it’s that Google’s algorithm updates continue to impact the past, present, and even future of both web development and content creation. Understanding where the industry is heading lets your team lay the groundwork for success today. Others believe AI-written content is poor quality.

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VP of Engineering AI Search Engineering Social Media 127

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. That’s how much I knew about it. They have two other companies.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. ProfitWell Metrics. We designed ProfitWell Metrics with that concept in mind. Are you doing well but don’t have enough team members to answer support tickets? Ask different teams about pain points.

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SaaS Payments Payment Features Subscription Payment Services 59

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This is where the value of subscription metrics comes to the fore — and specifically the customer acquisition cost (CAC) and the customer lifetime value (LTV). Every team has their own slightly different way of calculating the cost of customer acquisition. Note: This article covers CAC in detail. How to calculate CAC.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Startup Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value 52

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors. Where will you get them or how will you develop them? The Fundamental Shift You Need To Make.

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SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

TriTuns

JANUARY 21, 2020

*This is an updated version of the article , “The Big Bold Future Of SaaS Growth Is Customer Success” that I originally published on Software Executive Magazine in May 2019. This is very bad news for SaaS vendors. Where will you get them or how will you develop them? The Fundamental Shift You Need To Make.

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SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Customer Success Business Model 71

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How to manage an SDR team and working with a 1:1 ratio between SDRs and AEs. He’s now been at LeanData for five and a half years and he talks to us about what, why, and how he builds and leads great teams, and why his top performing reps are all people that came in as SDRs. Outreach is running Unleash 2019.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Look at conversion rates, bounce rates, and other relevant metrics. Develop gated assets : Create valuable downloadable content like eBooks , white papers , templates , and checklists. Positions you and your key team members as industry experts, enhancing your agency’s reputation.

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Strategy AI Search Marketing Social Media 98

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. In 2019, the picture is pretty rosy for Wistia. Consistent updates. Growth stage.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. Here, we see that profit margins are unconnected to sales values, and they’ve declined since peaking in 2019. Analyzing team performances. This visual representation enables quick comparison across metrics.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2019, a mobile-centric approach is becoming the key way for brands to connect and engage with consumers for many. Similarly, App Annie predicts that in 2019 , worldwide app store consumer spend will grow 5x as fast as the overall global economy with a consumer spend surpassing $120B in 2019. The answer is, diversify.

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Mobile Growth Hacking Underperforming Technical Team Advertising 40

ChurnZero

JULY 12, 2019

Perhaps product problems, loss of a key user in the account, a bad use case… Sure, these are some reasons why customers may churn, but the reality is that your churn rate is deeply connected to the quality of onboarding journey your users go through. Do you need to improve team communication? Check Slack. Online meetings?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2020

Where do you start with so many companies struggling and cutting down their sales teams? Many teams are going through change currently, as founders figure out the best way to deal with the current crisis. . Some teams have decided to double down and hire all the best sales talent, even while other companies lay off employees. .

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 72

Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

Cyber Monday 2018 represents the biggest ecomm sales day in history, and 2019 is projected to be even bigger. With that in mind, Unbounce has teamed up with a few heavy-hitters of marketing to give you the rundown on how you can start with your holiday campaigns and landing pages today. (So, billion on Cyber Monday.

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