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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At GitHub, I was in the last 18 months coming into acquisition, which is a nightmare, but I was one of 5 people running the company. billion acquisition more so than GitHub. Its product drives the acquisition, retention and expansion. I have a team of people who work on numbers. Enterprise value per revenue is 10X.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. However, freemium is a really potent acquisition model. There are costs and benefits to the model — is the acquisition cost worthwhile for your company? How to optimize your freemium model.

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. During mergers and acquisitions, even the slightest operational change can significantly influence both the staff and the clients. Reasons that make customer success essential during mergers and acquisitions.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. They’re a very important part of the team. Is that about the…?

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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

There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. 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 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

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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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. And yet on-premise deployments are still very common, especially the enterprise. On-premise (or “cloud-prem”) is still a thing. Yes, SaaS is powerful.