Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Driving sustainable growth is a challenge for every SaaS business from startups to public companies. In the beginning, the SaaS recurring revenue model seems like a dream compared to the revenue fits and starts of licensed enterprise software. Click the image or link to download the complete SaaS Growth Strategy eBook.

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Strategy Customer Lifetime Value SaaS Acquisition 165

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Top Tips to Drive Down Churn in The Early Days 5 Interesting Learnings from Atlassian at $3.2 SaaStr 680: The Most Important SaaS Metrics of 2023 with monday.com Co-Founders and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin  2.

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Scale Churn Scaling Metrics 234

SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2024

AI-driven marketing automation solutions tailored to specific industries can revolutionize marketing for small businesses lacking dedicated growth and marketing departments. Marketing Strategies and Best Practices Successful marketing strategies are not simply replicable tactics but a combination of factors including timing and luck.

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Sales Hiring Startup Marketing Technical Review 252

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Pitchbook: VC Returns Are at a 10+ Year Low 10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The #1 Reason CMOs Fail 10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire The $100,000,000 Valuation: The Last Stop Before “IPO or Bust” Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Management Acquisition Startup Scaling 227

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Tech and Startups Have Changed. The SaaS Decacorn is Back. The Advice That Stings is The Advice You Want to Hear How to Double Your SaaS Magic Number and Increase Efficiency Small Deals at Large Customers. But Different.

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Generative AI AI Startup Pricing 214

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Thing Is, Maybe 10%-15% of Venture-Backed Startups Are Still Running the 2021 Playbook. SaaStr 725: Mastering High-Volume, Low-CAC Marketing: Strategies from Gorgias, Vercel, and Hypergrowth Partners   2. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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AI Startup Trends Customer Success 212

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Are We Back to a 6x World? SaaStr 696: The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal     3. Live Workshop Wednesday: The GTM Models We Used at Divvy To Go From 0 to a $2.5B

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ChatGPT Scale SMB AI 231

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Beginning of The End of Customer Success, SDRs, and Support Agents A Low Burn Multiple is Great. How IBM Sees AI Changing the Game for Companies of All Sizes We End the Year at All-Time Lows for SaaS Growth.

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Venture Capital Scale AI Customer Success 225

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 5 Interesting Learnings From ZoomInfo at ~$1.3 SaaStr 698: How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin   2. Billion in ARR Vendr: Renewals Are Consuming More and More of IT Budgets.

ChatGPT 169

ChatGPT Compensation AI Acquisition 169

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: When The Team Revolts 80% of IPOs Since 2020 Are “Broken” What Are Public SaaS Companies Taken Private At? SaaStr 700: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I’ve Learned with Nick Mehta, CEO at Gainsight  4.

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Sales Hiring AI Startup Acquisition 192

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: HubSpot and ZoomInfo: “Things Aren’t Getting Any Better … Yet” 5 Interesting Learnings From ZoomInfo at ~$1.3 SaaStr 698: How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin  5.

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AI Acquisition Startup Strategy 169

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round The Capital Everyone is Regretting Right Now is the “Free” Capital What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product?

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Generative AI AI Pricing SaaS 152

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Dear SaaStr: What does a US-Based SaaS company Need to Know Before Expanding into Europe? SaaStr 696: The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal     3.

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ChatGPT Scale Compensation AI 152

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Must-Read Customer Success Blogs. The Success League Blog. Tri Tuns Blog. SuccessCOACHING Blog. Higher Logic Blog.

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Customer Success Consulting Churn Trends 98

CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the Customer Success space, which means there’s now even more content out there on the web for you to research, consume and rely on. Let’s look at the top customer success blogs. As well as their actionable customer success platform they provide a widely respected blog.

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Customer Success Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Software Review 64

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022! Suggested blog : Account Expansion: If You Want To Grow Fast, Do This….

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Customer Success Scale Technical Review AI Search 52

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: It’s Now Year 2 of the Venture Downturn Clawbacks and Tracking-to-Cash: Two Sales Management Tools to Be Thoughtful With 8 Things That Are Just Harder in SaaS Now Tier 1 VC is Great. But More Money May Be Even Better.

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Scale AWS Scaling Enterprise 222

wepay

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

SaaS business growth isn’t always that different from non-SaaS business growth. For traditional businesses the focus is more on Convert and for SaaS it tilts a bit more toward Retain due to the prevalence of the subscription model. What is a go-to-customer strategy?

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SaaS Payments Strategy Payments SaaS 40

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long. SMB SaaS has a lot going for it, but one big existential challenge — inherent churn.

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New CTO CTO SMB Venture Capital 242

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Salesforce Ventures: Only 150 Private SaaS Companies Have Hit $100,000,000 in ARR Want Happy Customers? SaaStr 634: Scaling a Product-Led Growth Model with 1Password, Apollo.io, Sentry, and Lightspeed  2. It Always Pays Off.

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Scale Venture Capital Startup Retention 195

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 21, 2022

2022’s impact on the SaaS industry was significant, deeply impactful, and turbulent. Faced with a decelerating economy for the foreseeable future, leaders are moving away from the growth-at-all-costs mindset and focusing instead on efficiency. 2022: A Year Of Unpredictable & Accelerated Evolution. Read Article. Read Article.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Churn Subscription Payment Features 52

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 93% of You Say Competitors Lie To Close Deals. 30+ SaaS CEOs Share The Signs Their First VP of Sales … Just Wasn’t Going to Work Out (Updated) Want To Steal a Customer from the Competition? SaaStr 677: MongoDB at $1.5

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Startup Pricing Revenue SaaS 180

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It can take an enormous amount of time to build a content strategy that’s meant to deliver on aggressive traffic goals. That’s especially true when you’ve already created a significant amount of content for your blog and are struggling to come up with new topics to write about. Look for blog posts that are competing with each other 4.

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Social Media Content Marketing Engineering User Experience 105

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2024

So as growth decelerated rapidly for many in SaaS in 2022-2023, one of the first things cut was marketing. Cut marketing, you’re often cutting future growth. Examples of Zero Cost Marketing: Implementing a brand new PLG strategy overnight. And second, why is PLG a marketing strategy? The best do both.

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Marketing Social Media Advertising Content Marketing 256

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Things Not to Say During a VC Pitch. Is Every SaaS Startup Worth Half of What It Was Last Year? The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long.

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SMB Startup Scaling Churn 211

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But every so often, you’d discover a strategy that got you just a little bit farther. And by putting those strategies together over time, you’d eventually end up farther and farther down the mountain. But after working with hundreds of SaaS companies, I've realized that the same advice applies for your retention rate as well.

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Retention Strategy Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 56

User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022? We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales.

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Venture Capital SaaS Data Scale 52

Valuize Consulting

DECEMBER 23, 2021

While these trends began to take shape in 2020, they were forced into hyperdrive this year and created a new normal for the SaaS world. . We’ve compiled our top 5 most-read CS & SaaS blog posts of the year that reflect the key priorities for the industry in 2021 and give us a glimpse into the trends that will be shaping CS in 2022.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Leadership Retention 52

FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In case you’ve missed something, here’s a list of the top 10 blog posts from 2018 that you don’t want to miss as you gear up for 2019. Find the best business model for your product or service with this helpful blog post. The Power of Recurring Revenue for Software, Subscriptions, SaaS, and Digital Content. Are you B2B or B2C?

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B2C Business Model Pricing B2B 67

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In today’s world, there’s a clear shift in what founders, boards, and investors are all after — scalable, low-CAC (customer-acquisition cost) growth strategies. In this playbook we’ll share: Automated outbound at-scale strategies. Sales-assisted, product-led growth strategies that close Enterprise leads.

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Scale Sales Hiring Strategy Marketing 219

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Best article to read: RevOps is taking over how B2B SaaS companies look at sales. How to contribute: Predictable Revenue’s blog is a place to hear new content from the CEO and senior leadership team. Sales strategy. Sales Hacker. HubSpot Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Outbound Sales Team Interviewing 80

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. They’ll take you through their own personal experiences, from creating a scalable product strategy to building an enduring company that puts people and purpose before profit.

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Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service B2B 240

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Top Blog Posts This Week: 12 Things You’ll Look Back On in SaaS … And Regret. Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Intercom CEO Karen Peacock. Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Intercom CEO Karen Peacock.

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Venture Capital Scale Scaling Metrics 235

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2022

Uncharted territory stretches ahead, but the unknown can also present opportunities for growth and greatness. . In the eye-opening session, these marketing leaders discuss the market pulse, impactful branding, and strategies for the future. However, SaaS can actually help businesses meet these challenges.

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B2C Scale Marketing Sales Hiring 220

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Average SaaS Leader Grows 54% … At $1 Billion in ARR. When to Go Multi-Product in SaaS. Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie.

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Scale Engineering Payment Features Sales 226

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Many of the fundamental business models that were once engraved in the SaaS playbook are now changing thanks to a tougher macro environment and a maturing market. PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payments Headcount 244

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2022

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Gartner: Software Spend Will Still Grow by $100 Billion in 2023. SaaS Pricing Strategies that Work: How to Design an Optimal Pricing Model with FastSpring VP Product. Save yourself the same pain by listening / watching!!

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