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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Scaling Faster, An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 577)

SaaStr

There was another company I invested in called Automile, that for a while was quite successful in SMB fleet tracking, tracking where your fleets of vehicles are. And they sold right after COVID hit, when their business got impacted, for a billion Swedish somethings. It was a decent outcome, but they were coming up on 20 million.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

And in cases where our customers get stuck, our support team responds in a timely manner with personalized video. It’s not always a bad thing to be priced higher than your competitors — it can signal to prospects that yours is a premium service. In other words, if you want to attract SMBs, make sure you have SMB language on your site.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. How low it should be depends on the industry in which your SaaS business operates in.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Leveraging customer insights across your business.

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Why Growth Hacking Doesn’t Scale, And How To Plan For Growth Instead

Sales Hacker

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

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