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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. Employee Retention.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Besides it’s proven business results, this strategy helps empower end-users to get the best possible product for their needs. Product-Led Growth (PLG) Made Easy. START FOR FREE.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Finding the right skillset. Sometimes, it’s by looking for people who don’t have traditional CSM experience.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Product Led Growth Marketing

User Pilot

But first, an easily digestible definition for those who are new to the concept: Product led growth marketing is the use of the product as the primary driver of acquisition, and it also brings marketing’s involvement into expansion and retention. Typically, this means you’re marketing products with a freemium model or that offer a free trial.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

Christine Trodella: We’re very different businesses. Facebook is an ads revenue driven business and this is a very different business model, being a SaaS company within Facebook. I mean, there are a lot of just internal processes and operations, business operations, that we have to build from scratch.

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