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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Do you really need to know what phase your company is in?”. Are we still a startup? I don’t think so.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Dana Soza Customer Solutions CEO, is one of the most prominent and revered Customer Success professionals in California, US. An advocate for inclusion and diversity, Dana is proficient in scaling businesses with the help of customer acquisition and retention. She is a growth leader who passionately follows the human-first approach.

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What Are the Different Stages of a Startup: An Introduction?

SmartKarrot

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. This is the stage where the following things happen –.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Our next company SteelBrick was inspired by the first and SteelBrick was really a next generation CPQ and one of our audience members Lars Nielsen is right here. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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Everything you need to know about building a successful Customer Success Framework

CustomerSuccessBox

Acquisition. Customer acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers for your company. Customer acquisition begins with your go-to-market strategy, which directs how you sell your product, which includes: How your pricing strategy appears Who your target customers are and how you plan to reach them. Time to Value.