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5 Things That Are Actually Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad’s CEO and a16z

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AI-powered Customer Onboarding and Customer Support We’re seeing a lot of companies using either AI tools they built themselves or through 3rd-party AI SaaS vendors have success helping users understand a new behavior or use a product for the first time. What’s Currently Working in AI for SaaS 1.

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6 Practical Reasons AI is a Threat to Traditional B2B Startups Today

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Dear SaaStr: How Much of a Threat is AI to Traditional B2B Startups Today? Heres why AI is at least a partial threat to many B2B start-ups today, even if you aren’t 100% feeling it yet: AI is Table Stakes Now in Many Categories, And Soon Maybe In Every Category : AI is no longer a differentiator, its the baseline.

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From 0 to $10m ARR, At What Point Do We Start Hiring and Whom?

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Customer Success and Support : You can hire 1-2 individual contributors to handle onboarding and support, but its still very hands-on. Customer Success : As you approach $10M ARR, youll need a full CS team to handle onboarding, renewals, retention and upsells. Usually in B2B, the workflows just start to get pretty myriad and complex.

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Dear SaaStr: What Is the Playbook for a Successful Customer Success Team?

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Dont overcomplicate job descriptions with too many criteriastick to 2-3 must-haves that are hard to train for, like customer empathy and B2B experience. Nail Onboarding, and Make It a Key KPI for CS Onboarding is where you win or lose customers. Use it to guide customers through onboarding and deliver value quickly.

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Dear SaaStr: Should We Introduce Freemium in Our B2B SaaS Startup to Boost Growth?

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Dear SaaStr: Should We Introduce Freemium in Our B2B SaaS Startup to Boost Growth? But if you have a product today that has thousands of users (not millions) and requires onboarding, selling, training … the odds you can build a freemium product that will make any money is close to nil. Probably not. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Thanks to Drata, OnBoard, Qwilr, RevSure, and Workato for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

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At OnBoard , we believe board meetings should be informed, effective, and uncomplicated. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. Qwilr is the tool of choice for scaling B2B sales teams.

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10 Ways AI Will Change Sales Forever. It’s Already Happening, In Fact.

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What’s Changing in Sales: The AI Revolution is Here — and Coming Fast After analyzing 139,000+ conversations through SaaStr’s New AI, it’s now clear from the data: AI is about to fundamentally transform B2B sales. In B2B, the transformation will eliminate the frustrating experience of being bounced between departments.

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