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OPEXEngine SaaS Conversations Recap

OPEXEngine

Advances in automation and new engineering techniques are enabling faster development cycles, raising expectations for ROI from the R&D function. Lauren and Rob shared a range of benchmarks that executive management should consider to accurately assess R&D ROI and resource allocations. . Financial KPIs.

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2020 SaaS C-Suite Evolving to Support Product and Customer Lifecycle Management

OPEXEngine

A Couple SaaS Generations Ago… Traditional software companies managed sales, product development, finance and HR in siloed organizations by function. Separate Sales, Marketing, R&D, Accounting/Finance organizations were headed by a senior executive. Cross functional management was attempted but often not effective.

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Making the jump from Customer Success to CEO with FranConnect’s Gabby Wong

ChurnZero

Traditionally, it’s the chief officer of finance or operations. Additionally, “leapfrog” candidates—those who come from a level below the C-suite, such as senior vice presidents—now make up roughly 5% of new chief execs. We also measure NPS, and we benchmark that across all acquisitions.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Automation Anywhere and Algolia — January 17, 2020

SaaStr

To date, Automation Anywhere has raised over $840m in financing from Salesforce Ventures, Workday, General Atlantic and NEA, to name a few. What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? And second, just last week he started an incredibly exciting new opportunity with his new company.

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How to Use M&A as a Tool to Accelerate Growth Feat. Insight Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. And that kind of sets the incentives and kind of you can’t get a new co-founder or a team member multiple of those to your business.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? And the third piece is we’re really anxious to disrupt an age-old industry that has sales compensation, benchmarking and analytics, which generally speaking is a year old. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model?