SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Or, even if they’re leaning towards the latter, they’re often not using the right metrics. And the teams now need a more defined structure.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s one of my favorite questions, even though it’s really not a financial or operating metric at all. . When I was on the operating side, strategic initiatives in 2019 and 2020 were all about “cash flow break-even”. Hiring a traditional outbound sales team to target CIOs used to be the norm for B2B sales.

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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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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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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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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. The path to success is not linear.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team? I’ve spent three years deploying Gainsight. Aaron : No.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Prior to their direct listing in June 2019, Slack raised over $1.3Bn from the likes of Accel, Thrive, Softbank, Kleiner, IVP, T Rowe, GV, and a16z to name a few. How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? You don’t.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

Prior to their IPO in April 2019, PagerDuty had raised funding from some of the best in the business including a16, Bessemer, Meritech, Harrison Metal and Elad Gil to name a few. In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with? 326: Gusto’s Lexi Reese walks you through scaling high performance teams.

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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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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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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. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

We kept growing over the years, and by 2019 we found ourselves looking at a fleet of somewhere around 50 machines in constant need of management, software updates, security patches, and so on. Team expertise. The number of new services AWS developed around data security covers most of our needs in the container/Kubernetes space.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

With 2019 is right on the horizon, I’m taking this as an opportunity to look back at the kickass year we had at Sales Hacker. Cold Calling is the top sales skill you should be developing to gain a competitive edge, not just for prospecting and landing meetings with C-Level decision makers, but at every stage of the funnel.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * What metrics must you look for? This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid.

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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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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Sam has over 16 years of experience in consulting, product management, and leading customer success teams. Bloomfire allows teams to improve productivity and customer centricity by creating a self-service knowledge base. We had the right people on our team, but we needed to invest in technology to scale and formalize processes.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Net dollar retention becomes the top SaaS metric. Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them.

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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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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

APRIL 8, 2019

Internal Team: Hire your own Sales Development Rep (SDR) team that is 100% dedicated to outbound prospecting. Pros: No one will know your “stuff” better than internal people, it’s the best long-term solution for most companies, and begins your sales Farm Team. You build a team of four Outbound SDRs.

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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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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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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. Perhaps it was a carefully thought out initiative. Or perhaps not. The state of customer success processes.

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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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