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OPEXEngine SaaS Conversations Recap

OPEXEngine

Our August SaaS conversation focused on high performance in R&D, with OPEXEngine CEO and Founder Lauren Kelley hosting Bain Expert Partner Rob Levy for an energizing discussion on this critical topic. R&D Spend as a % of Revenue Benchmarks. Top R&D KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Track & Benchmark.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0 What’s their new CAC Payback Time? New Gross Margins?

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

ChurnZero

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. It can be hard to convince PE firms to invest in the customer. How did you get your PE colleagues to invest in the customer experience?

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

SaaStr

What can they do to enforce a sense of urgency when signing new clients? Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Where do founders make mistakes in negotiation?

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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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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. We invest mainly in the growth stage, so think series B, series C, but also somethings earlier as well as some later stage buyouts.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I think this is one of the great things about being in SaaS and all of you at our SaaS conference is that you can address the entire world. When we benchmarked ourself, when we started this company, we didn’t say we wanted to be the biggest company in Raleigh. We had no New York city presence. This was a problem.

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