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Benchmarking WorkDay's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Today, we’ll explore one of the enterprise behemoths, both in market cap and average revenue per customer: WorkDay.

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The Rising Stakes in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. This rivalry causes four major responses: Verticalization - compete with a horizontal player by picking one customer segment and building a product better suited to them.

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The Balderton Founder’s Guide to B2B Sales

Kellblog

Renewing/expanding: teaming sales and customer success. Planning: planning and the role of key metrics and benchmarks. While there are numerous good SaaS benchmarking resources out there, the guide includes some benchmark figures from the Balderton universe (i.e., Marketing: using marketing to build sales pipeline.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. But our customer relationships can also be strengthened by giving members additional access to those of us at FastSpring. But we know most companies can always increase the ways they support customers and further strengthen those relationships. Professional moderation.

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SaaS Growth Trends in 2023

Chart Mogul

After analyzing data from over 2,100 SaaS startups to publish the SaaS Benchmarks Report 2023 Sid is full of insights on the topic at hand. For many customer success managers, it’s a slightly different skill set. Sid Jain, Senior Analyst at ChartMogul, joins to moderate the discussion.

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How to Present an Operating Plan to your Board

Kellblog

Customer success managers (CSMs) = the number of account managers in customer success. customer success architects, technical account managers) that should arguably be included here or tracked in an additional row in deeper reports. In deeper presentations, you should also look at QCR density.

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How to Build Sales Compensation Plans that Increase Retention and Productivity

Sales Hacker

For instance, according to our benchmark report, RevOps-developed plans had the most trust. Sales compensation is the caboose — not the engine,” said Pablo Dominguez , venture capital Insight Partners’ Operating Partner of Sales and Customer Success. Align comp plan to strategy.