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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

From 41% in 2020 to 51% in 2021! Some leaders like Slack have seen the same, but most Cloud leaders at scale with high NRR end up getting more and more of their revenue from their existing base, not new customers. Use overages to renegotiate contracts, not charge per event. CEO Spencer Skates owns 8.5%, CTO Curtis Liu 8.0%.

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. It’s taking the bets that will take longer to prove just because it’s new. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Ham and Egg: How Team-Based Selling Boosts Win Rates

Sales Hacker

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Your CTO probably does not need to be on the first Demo, but instead that could be an opportune time to loop in a Manager or director.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Cross functional management was attempted but often not effective. In the early SaaS days, management structure was essentially the same. Chief Performance Officer.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. Nudging Customers with Behavioral Tactics.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. We ended up signing that contract in the uber back to the airport on the way home. It was our largest contract to date, kind of helps the other quarter. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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