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

Chargify

Common activities your SaaS should focus on during the pre-startup stage can include: Talking to potential customers. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. Our recurring billing services let SaaS companies focus on their business and customer acquisition instead of the nuts and bolts of billing.

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. But is this purely anecdotal? How common is it for SaaS companies to meet this benchmark? Update Your Dunning Management System.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She has 20 years of experience in sales leadership and the talent acquisition industry. Jo-Anne Jaspen i s a passionate growth strategist, B2B revenue leader, mentor, and startup advisor. Her coaching and training is centered around a simple idea: successful sales is based on 3 building blocks: authenticity, transparency and curiosity.

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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. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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

Sales Hacker

Again, I am a big believer in the power of customer storytelling for helping sales outcomes. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. No one does it alone.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners, ActiveCampaign, Insight Squared, and Dropbox — June 29, 2019

SaaStr

Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor.

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SaaStr Podcast #358 with Tipalti Founder & CEO Chen Amit

SaaStr

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.