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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making. Put simply, enduring companies have moats which defend their business model - they are a competitive advantage.

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The Why, What & How Of Hiring A Transformational Customer Success Operations Leader

Valuize Consulting

In order to drive best-in-class Net Dollar Retention (NDR), you need seasoned CS Operations leadership with the right amount of strategic expertise, seniority, and influence that can act as a partner within your organization and across your business. The Business Impact Of Senior Customer Success Operations Leadership.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically.

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Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams

Intercom, Inc.

Working with both individuals and businesses, the team at Later needs to implement tactics from B2C and B2B to ensure they’re always providing the best experience for their users. But to kick us off, would you mind giving us a little bit of background about yourself, your 20 years of experience, and your background as a software developer?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate. Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. Missed the session? What you need to know about hiring, firing, advisors, and culture.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. So essentially building the first operating system for corporate learning and development teams in bringing thought leadership community best practices around the LearnOps category. Or is it just the world reinventing like business models?

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How SaaS Works: Introduction to the Big Picture

How SaaS Works

Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. Those improvements are one of the big reasons why a user keeps paying every month to access your software product. Why is SaaS such an attractive business model?