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Doubling Down: Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

To prioritize efficient growth. #4. What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Multiples have come down since the peak, and today the venture-growth markets are prioritizing efficient growth. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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IVP: The Average SaaS Magic Number is 1.2

SaaStr

You need it to get a sense of how you are doing in SaaS, and how to plan your sales and marketing spend. And IVP has published some data to help you benchmark it. Still, it’s a core metric. As one of the leading later-stage B2B VC funds, IVP meets with a ton of SaaS founders at $15m+ ARR.

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7 Common Enterprise Marketing Mistakes

SaaStr

As marketers, we need to think beyond the launch and drive long-term action with new products. #5 Benchmarking is Key. . Get a general sense of what your data is telling you, benchmark, then optimize. ? ? ?. #6 6 Marketing is a Partnership, Not a Service. 5 Data is Never Perfect. No set of data will ever be flawless.

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Build Customer Loyalty in the First 30 Days

Sales Hacker

Here’s how to drive early value effectively: In-product value Measure TTV : Set a quantifiable benchmark for how long it should take a new user to reach their first “aha moment.” Efficient TTV highlights an optimized onboarding experience and provides a clear indicator of early product satisfaction.

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How to Scale Go-to-Market Through IPO with ICONIQ Growth’s General Partners

SaaStr

With over a decade of data from qualitative learnings and insights amassed through a network of leaders, ICONIQ deep dives into what it takes to succeed at GTM throughout the four stages of growth. It depends on whatever the market is stressing at specific periods in time.

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The SaaS Talk 50th Episode Credits

Kellblog

Instead, we talk — some might say bicker — for about 20 minutes roughly every week about SaaS metrics, benchmarks, and reports. We ended up not duplicating Car Talk’s radio call-in format, and unlike many podcasts, we’ve also chosen not to center the podcast around guest interviews.

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The Ultimate SaaS Metrics Guide to Smarter, Faster Growth

Cobloom

To help you understand and improve your performance, I've put together a comprehensive guide to 50 essential SaaS metrics (loosely divided into Growth, Marketing, Sales and Customer Success ). Benchmarks to guide your performance. For each of the 50 metrics, we'll look at: What they are, and why they matter.

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