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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO. Patrick Campbell, CEO, ProfitWell.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

By combining this with good customer communication, SaaS companies can be highly responsive to the needs and feedback of their customer base. At this stage, you should be asking yourself these main questions: Am I tracking metrics and looking to optimize pricing? Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams.

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this talk, Michelle will share how she made her business idea come to life and some lessons learned that can help other entrepreneurs—from solving a real, meaningful problem, to communicating in a crisis, prioritizing when there’s a true lack of resources and more. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team.

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The $8 trillion opportunity

ProfitWell

Blake Bartlett over at OpenView , the expansion-stage venture capital firm, chatted with me a bit about product-led growth. You adopted Slack because individual end users at your company found it to be helpful and started communicating on it and it spread like wildfire, and now everybody uses it. Why go product-first?

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What we look for in early-stage SaaS startups

The Angel VC

One could almost say that CAC and CLTV are for a SaaS company what wholesale price and sales price are for a retailer. So for a bigger SaaS player, sales and marketing costs are the driver of profitability. But at the minimum, looking at these two metrics is a great start when you as an investor evaluate a SaaS company.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Teddie Wardi | Managing Director @ Insight Partners. We opened a small sales office in Wework. Felix : Yes.

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

* Nick has previously said, “Burying customer success under sales does not work.” What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? What does Nick mean when he says, “Product is to customer success what marketing is to sales.” Why does this have such a high rate of failure? We actually almost went public.