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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? As you scale, your win rate — the % of deals you close vs. the competition — should go down. More on that here: Beware of the Confidence of High Win Rates Not being 100% laser focused on NPS and CSAT (and driving down churn).

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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

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The burn and the churn. The burn was at a stunning $2m a month, and the churn had spiked. It’s sort of a death spiral: High churn, but no burn = struggle, but the engine self-perpetuates to an extent. What’s really hard to solve is The 3H’s: High Growth for a while — but High Churn. Blitz scaling.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? You will need a VP of Product to scale your roadmap. You can smother customers with love alone in the early days, but as you scale, you need a seasoned customer success team and VP that has done this before. She can be your CTO forever. As are you.

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How Revenue Leaders at Box, Calendly, and Lattice Scaled From $0 to $100M+ and Beyond

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How do you diagnose and solve churn? She was hired because they saw a bit of softening in new business growth, and she came to help diagnose what was going on and help scale the business. While it may seem smart when you have five or fewer salespeople to sell anything and everything between $3k and $100k, that won’t scale.

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4 Competencies of a Successful Sales Team

Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

As you scale your SaaS business, you want to be armed with all the necessary tools to ensure optimal growth, which ultimately stems from how effective your sales team is. October 29, 2019 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM BST.

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The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long

SaaStr

But beyond all the other Pros and Cons of SMB vs enterprise, there’s one looming issue with SMB SaaS: Churn. Endemic churn. The type of churn you almost can’t do anything about. Net net, most true SMB SaaS products often churn on the order of 3% per month almost no matter what you do. And measuring it.

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At Scale, Customer Success On Average is Paid 5.3% of ARR Managed, Per Gainsight

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is a number to back into, at scale. It’s a reminder CSM staffing overall is actually fairly thin at scale. And some great related data from Churn Zero here : Where Customer Success Reports To Typically, Who Really Owns Renewals, And More from ChurnZero The post At Scale, Customer Success On Average is Paid 5.3%

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Leveraging Consumption to Drive Growth: The SaaS Expert's Guide to Usage-Based Pricing

Speaker: Igor Stenmark, Andrew Dailey, &Youssef Yaghmour

However, despite the growing recognition of its benefits, there is a lack of comprehensive guidance on the practical steps to launch, expand, and scale these intricate pricing models. You’ll hear how you can Harness complex pricing to boost Product-Led Growth (PLG) and customer satisfaction while reducing churn.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.