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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

Customer Success was barely a discipline when Anthony joined Gainsight, but thanks to the rise of SaaS and subscription-based business models more generally, where retaining and providing value to your existing customers is a non-negotiable, the category has exploded. Or an airline at 34. Or a mail-order record company at 20.

Scale 112
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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. Proven ability to recruit. Economics and Acquisition ?? Series A Round Dynamics ??

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In a world. where the subscriber is the center

ProfitWell

Recurly—provider of enterprise-class subscription billing management for thousands of businesses worldwide—raises $19.5 Breaking down technical concepts for sales, customers, and partners to better understand. For Amazon—and many other successful subscription companies—the work isn’t done once the sale is made.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Centralized HQs with all the perks and amenities “under one roof” have traditionally been used as recruiting tools to attract and retain top talent. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. This will be a really strong indicator of retention and recruiting.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Workplace, Christine was Head of America’s for Facebook’s Audience Network and before that spent 5 years as a Group Director across multiple different sales and account teams within Facebook’s mid-market channel. Christine Trodella: We’re very different businesses. Loving our podcast content?

Scale 222
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chris O’Neill and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

The first will be sharing five perspectives and things that I found to be useful in adjusting sales in the midst of a crisis or a turnaround. We also challenged the sacred cow, the assumption at the time, that the website was cannibalizing store sales, in the bricks. That’s more than the entire airline industry.

Scale 186