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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

At SaaStr Miami, former Founder’s Fund Partner and CRO of Brex Sam Blond — host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast — sat down with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin for a fireside chat about finding success as a SaaS company in 2024. On the sales side, people hired way too much. More salespeople do not equal more sales.

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The Top 20 SaaStr Tips to Getting a SaaSt Start-Up Going

SaaStr

Q: What are the top 20 pieces of advice for building a successful SaaS startup? Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Someone great at something core you aren’t: Sales, Engineering, Marketing. Great at sales. It just takes that long in SaaS and B2B, nine times out of ten.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And what I’d like to talk to you about today is the SaaS Trust crisis we’re seeing.

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19 SaaS Predictions For 2021 and Beyond

OpenView Labs

What does the future hold for B2B software? Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. SaaS will need to engage or get left behind.”.

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60 – Sales Support for SaaS Companies, with Manuel Hartmann

Natalia Luneva

How he founded Sales playbook. I founded SalesPlaybook after getting frustrated by the lack or absence of sales support for startup founders. A lot of these companies have never done outbound sales and they don’t have a repeatable process in place and they haven’t really nailed down their ideal customer profile.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. Today growth appears to be all that matters. Attract great talent.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. He then led product management for XDegrees and spent over five years rising up through the ranks at Symantec. The company boasts over 10,000 organizations and 350,000 paid users on it’s SaaS incident response platform for IT.