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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

SaaStr

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. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. And 3 Things Not to Worry So Much About.

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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

SaaStr

What public (and private) SaaS companies are valued at as a multiple of revenue. Don’t count deals that haven’t closed as revenue. VCs would overlook startups that had raised too much money in the Go-Go days, or had lots of founder turmoil, or lots of churn, if the growth was there. Share up front why your first CTO left.

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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

SaaStr

My learnings: What Works — That You Might Think Wouldn’t Work: High employee/VP churn. Some of my best investments had zero revenue the first 2 years or even longer. Great CEO But Mediocre CTO. Sometimes, you can grow quickly at $1m-$2m+ ARR growing quickly even with a mediocre CTO. A mediocre CTO can’t keep up.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

You just close more, and churn less, and upsell more, when you show up. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. That you can’t have a majority of y our revenue dependent on one customer. Few things are worse than churn-and-burn deals.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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The New Economics Of Customer Success: Showcasing The ROI Of Customer Success To Your CFO

Valuize Consulting

With global equations used to calculate investment-to-Revenue in traditional functions like Sales or Engineering , it’s often very straightforward to showcase the value and convince CFOs to invest in these organizations. NDR Efficiency: The New Customer Success Economics. Projected Revenue Growth.

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New feature: Custom charts

Chart Mogul

Sergei Anikin, CTO, Pipedrive. After you’ve saved your chart, you’ll see it added to a new section of your Charts sidebar called Custom charts. Or if you’re laser-focused on reducing churn, you can move those metrics to the top of your menu for quick access. New Feature: Stay Focused on Your Goals With Targets.

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