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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Eva Pittas (Co-founder and COO at Laika) and Dicken Chaplin (CFO at Laika) discuss the value a well-versed CFO brings to their business as well as a few key lessons they’ve learned along the way. Marketing Lead Gen.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Flaws are being exposed, and a new model is imminent. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion.

Scale 107
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Flaws are being exposed, and a new model is imminent. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion.

Scale 49
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How to Optimize Customer Retention for B2B Enterprises

Totango

New customer acquisition is at the heart of most traditional business models. This is because not only do you have to find and reach a new customer but you also have to walk them through the sales funnel. That’s why B2B business models should make customer retention a high priority. .

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. So they added sales team.

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