SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. It can make the difference between needing to make deep cuts when the business climate gets rocky versus making slight adjustments. Revenue per Employee. What Is Capital Efficiency?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit. Guillaume : Keep the mic.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” And we need platforms to be able to do that.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

I’ll talk you through figuring out if you’re ready to hire salespeople, and make my pitch for why a founder-led sales strategy makes sense for early B2B startups. What happens if you hire a sales team too early in the life of your B2B startup? Your company incurs unnecessary expenses before figuring out product-market fit.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 24, 2021

The same could also be true for your SaaS business. In our B2B SaaS Pricing Masterclass , we detail the importance of SaaS pricing and how to get it right for your audience. We also shared that revisiting your monetization strategy is an essential part of growing your business. 2 types of pricing localization.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. And finally, David Cancel drops the mistakes he says will tank even the best business idea. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. What’s all the buzz over? Shoppers, subscribers, sellers—rejoice.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. Manager, Business Development. People First Productivity Solutions. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Director, Sales Solutions, North America. Manager, LinkedIn Sales Solutions. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

We hear a lot about equipping salespeople with customer insights to help them move from simple questioning to exploring challenges and discussing solutions with customers. Customer business challenges/opportunities: Issues that customers face or opportunities to improve the way they do things that can motivate prospects to engage.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some companies report revenue churn, others only share customer or user churn numbers, and often there’s no distinction between whether churn numbers are annual or monthly. I mean, just take a look at all these different surveys: A 2018 KBCM Technology Group survey reported a median annual revenue churn rate of 13.2% Image via Recurly.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. And finally, the evolution of B2B SaaS billing. What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

User adoption of your product can be executed in a couple of different ways, through different channels like: Inside the product itself. On external platforms, like Facebook. In this post, we are going to learn: The essential pillars of user adoption of your product. moment of your product through Facebook.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, the term “Growth” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the SaaS world, especially at product led growth businesses. Recently I surveyed over 350 SaaS companies and found that 43% of B2B software companies already have a dedicated growth team and 27% are looking to fill a growth role.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? MRR gain is new revenue from either acquired customers or upgrades in a given month. MRR loss is churn, or lost revenue from cancellations or downgrades. As consumer trends adapt—your business needs to adapt, as well. How to prioritize products with an ABC analysis.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 14, 2022

SaaS pricing is typically done on a subscription basis where customers pay a recurring monthly or annual fee to use a company’s software. Most SaaS pricing models typically fall into one of the following categories: Flat-Rate/Fixed Pricing: All users pay a single price every month to use your software.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Which product analytics tools should you be using? And what type of analytics really matters for a product marketing manager? Some analytic tools are confusing, some are difficult to use, and some are downright irritating, making it hard to access the product growth insights you need. What are product analytics tools?

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 5, 2023

A robust task management platform is your solution and this is where Asana Task Manager enters into the picture. Asana Task Manager is an excellent platform that helps streamline workflows and keep tasks organized in one place. per user per month (for annual payment). Another great option is customizability.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Allison Pickens. Amarachi Ogueji. Anika Zubair.

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User Pilot

APRIL 18, 2024

Userpilot is a product onboarding platform that can help you with that. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Marketing to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a conversion path? You can do it by embedding a testimonial or a list of known clients. Book the demo to find out more!

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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness. Anticipate future customer needs and work proactively to find solutions.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. The most important distinction you can make between different customers is whether your company is selling to individual customers (B2C) or to businesses (B2B).

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 10, 2021

It is especially true of SaaS products – where the value in an intangible implication that adoption could lead to better practices and revenue growth. The key to building successful service/products is data. How will you perfect your software? Whether you are a B2B SaaS or B2C, what will be your two primary goals?

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The best businesses can do is adapt, evolve, and inch closer to their pricing North Star, acknowledging the quest for improvement in this dynamic landscape is perpetual. Achieving product-market-price fit is paramount. Initial caution often leads to missed revenue opportunities.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This can help you stand out from competitors and grow your business faster than if you had immediately gone after large contracts. Let us say you have a SaaS (Software As A Service) product that allows companies to send email newsletters easily. The market requirements for land & expansion to work.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. This especially matters when you start promoting on social media apps like WeChat — marketing channels that are conversation-based.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User analytics is the process of capturing and analyzing user behavior within your product. This helps to understand how different segments act in-app, identify friction and drop-off points, and make data-driven decisions. With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

” The data also shows that before COVID-19 impacted the market, the product led growth index and SaaS index were trading at similar rates. After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. Now, your next step will be expansion.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Tradeshift now… I’ll let Christian introduce himself but Tradeshift now is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, B2B SaaS company out of Europe, valuation well above a billion dollars. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. We were pretty crazy even then.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. Here are a few quick takeaways: Focus on your customers. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. Evgenia : Hi.

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