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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. They also better understand how to measure the success of freemium and strategies to convert free users into paying customers (hint: product qualified leads are your friend).

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Transcript.

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

This treatment is a disservice to the value an in-depth, methodical, and iterative analysis can unearth. ” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy.

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

Head of Strategy, People & Change. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition. Director Sales Strategy. Partner, Account Based Strategy Practice Lead. Director of Sales Strategy. Director, Sales Development and Strategy. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Panama Relocation Tours. Shelley Lavery.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. And if the market is growing fast, market growth can frequently drive enough company growth on its own, like, say, Shopify with ecommerce. Their retention strategies were also different.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. This is a strategy that we’re replicating at Outseta, so far with James our lead designer.