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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

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Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

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Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high. While staggered boards and poison pills can stave off hostile takeovers, the best protection against an undesired acquisition is a high stock price. Retain is the new add. Consumption pricing. Bankruptcy.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

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Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there.