Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. What is inside sales?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Loving our podcast content?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Even if developers do come, and they happen to build integrations that help customers; if incentives aren’t aligned between the two companies, lasting investment will not happen, and the integrations will be poorly maintained. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations. So, how do you create and manage the supply side?

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

While it’s not a bad idea to be measuring both, your monthly churn rate should be much, much lower than your annual churn rate. When you’ve reached this point, you could continue losing customers with no new customer acquisition and still increase your revenue (at least for a while). What Is Negative Churn? But don’t stop there.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. However, freemium is a really potent acquisition model. There are costs and benefits to the model — is the acquisition cost worthwhile for your company? Learn how to avoid catastrophe here.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

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. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? MRR, obviously.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada. When does it make sense to ask for payment information upfront?

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren Ryherd: We build profitable customer acquisition programs using paid digital advertising. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point. Target market focus Horizontal and vertical SaaS each target a very different customer base.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

And yet, most startups that we’re talking to haven’t looked into cohort analyses yet.” Cohort analysis is a powerful method used to analyze groups of customers and their behavior over time. How to create a cohort analysis How can I transform raw payment data to do a cohort analysis? of the guide. And both can be cohorted.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 10, 2020

But we won’t deny that there are now opportunities for companies and startups to truly do good as brands—brands, we hope, who will be an essential part of their customers’ lives moving forward. This paves the way for startups to use educational and informational content in their marketing strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Choose the right one for your SaaS startup. Skills for SaaS Sales Team. SaaS Sales team compensation . SaaS Pricing.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

For example, a churned user on a $50/mo plan isn’t nearly as bad as a churned user on a $500/mo plan. Since our customers are largely startups, the “Shutting down the company” option makes sense because if they no longer have a company, there’s no need for our product. It’s an app store optimization tool. First, is MobileAction.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this? Right, Renaud?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At some point in your journey, you’ll need to think about your exit strategy from your SaaS startup. It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. You might feel uncomfortable with the idea of selling your startup. Table of Contents.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As a result, we lost 40% in GMV since March 2020, which translates into $85,000 in monthly payments. The platform curates a list of the best products and startups that people haven’t heard of yet. We offered a big discount for the first 60 days of work with our developers for startups that had been affected by the pandemic.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial? Try Baremetrics free.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Everybody, welcome to Redpoint Office Hours.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this? Emilie : So, yes.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. strong acquisition and retention) almost always exceeded that threshold. Bad pricing practices are easy excuses for customers to cancel. Guessing is a bad strategy.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. So, I started in ’99 and at that time there was nobody who even understand what a startup were in Denmark. Work smarter, not harder. Want to see more content like this? Christian Lanng : No.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. The way a user gets to a website is infinitely less complex than the ways a user can interact with a product. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Product analytics is objective. Efficiency.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Working with over 800 startups, many of which I’ve formed personal relationships with, has taught me a lot about what actually moves the needle to improve retention. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Customer Acquisition. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Dos and pot. Don’ts.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Dos and pot. Don’ts.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. How does Harry think about when is the right time for a startup to raise VC funding? Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? Here’s what Gillian talks about: How to build a CSM team.

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