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Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The 2023 VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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Clouded Judgement 1.12.24 - Hard Truths

Clouded Judgement

It’s better to come to that realization today than grinding for 2 more years only to realize it then when your cash balance has dried up and all of a sudden you have no leverage in an acquisition. An acquisition at $200m can be life changing for founders, or it can be worth nothing if they raised $250m at $1B valuation back in 2021.

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Insights from Typeform: Leveraging Customer Success to Scale Your Business

OpenView Labs

Focusing on Customer Success from the very early days of Typeform has been instrumental in improving both retention and acquisition, and has played an important role in our overall achievements. The virality in our product is so strong that acquisition wasn’t our biggest challenge in the early days of Typeform. Education team.

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How AI is Changing the Sales Process

InsightSquared

With the potential to maximize sales leads, reduce costs, increase sales, and optimize return on investment, AI is soon to become a sales rep’s best friend. It can maximize lifetime value for each customer by increasing upsell and cross-sell opportunities, reducing customer churn, and boosting retention. The Future of AI in Sales.

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What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross 

SaaStr

Customer acquisition. How do you invest in the positive attributes of the community while protecting that special connection with people? One thing about moving away from paid acquisition to higher quality revenue is it requires a re-emphasis and reinvestment into free. That’s the opportunity here. It’s a pain. Who Owns Free?

AI Search 258
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Sales Success, Operations, and Tools with noHold CEO Diego Ventura

Mattermark

The options around assembling tooling to make a sales funnel operate efficiently are numerous and daunting. I started the company in 2000 with an investment of $15M. We are a SaaS platform, so customer retention is as important as customer acquisition since our revenue is recurrent.

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Catalyst Explained: 3 SaaS Business Catalysts That Can Change the Game for You

SmartKarrot

Operational Efficiency. Recent technological advancements indicate that SaaS companies will have to manage to scale up operations at an increasing rate without disrupting or affecting the efficiency and overall success of current organizational projects. Employee Training and Talent Management.

Scale 10