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

Chargify

Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The higher the activation and retention rates, the greater the indication that this is a must-have product. Our recurring billing services let SaaS companies focus on their business and customer acquisition instead of the nuts and bolts of billing. Funnel optimization**.

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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. I’m going to talk about retention.

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SaaS marketing guide: differentiate your SaaS marketing strategy

ProfitWell

It represents a significant long-term investment for your prospect, and the benefits are more challenging to define in a simple way. Freemium, or offering some of your software features to prospects for free, is one of the most road-tested and time-honored acquisition models SaaS companies use to get customers on board.

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

Sales Hacker

Invest in your development internally and externally. 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. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Hang Black.

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

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin is the Founder @ SaaStr, the world’s largest SaaS community and leading early-stage SaaS fund with investments in Automile, TalkDesk, Algolia and more. Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Three of the companies he founded went public and one was acquired.

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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.