SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? One is your churn. SaaS businesses have churn. Two is the growth of your existing customers. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 233

ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

This is a guest blog post by Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher. . Did you know that 60% of SaaS companies reported a negative impact on customer retention and upsell deals due to the pandemic? Customer retention, along with new customer acquisition, has been challenging for most companies when the pandemic hit.

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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 97

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anthony : I’ll add more too and this sounds like a sponsored answer, but customer success becomes even more important as we sort of think about where growth is coming from. Obviously, marketing and investments are expensive and we know the cost to keep a customer is obviously a lot less. I mean, literally. We were wrong.

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Turns out a founding team of six MBAs creating a full suite of products sold solely to SMBs can become a multi-million dollar public company in nine years – and continue growing rapidly ($77.6 Dharmesh : …said, “This is a very bad idea. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.). I said, “Holy crap.

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Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 218

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring compliance SMB 152

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. Organizations are guilty of putting it on the back burner even though it is one of the most crucial factors in success. Maintaining the focus on customer success throughout the mergers and acquisitions process is difficult.

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Acquisition Customer Success Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10