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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean, and I may at the risk of stating at times of blinding lava, they’re very … They’re really care a lot about what is the market opportunity you’re going after, right? You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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The 10 Forms of SaaS Capital: From Inception to Exit

Baremetrics

Sweat equity and credit cards, personal lines of credit, direct cash investment into the business in the form of an equity stake or a related-party loan to the company, deferring cash-pay compensation. If so, how much money will you need to build your product and get it to market and what types of capital will you employ to do so?

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Changing the Way We Work with Founding Partner Lan Xuezhao at Basis Set Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. That’s how you find product-market fit.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. And in the summer, we launched our org paid product. The acquisition process [21:55].

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Episode 229: Manny Medina is the Founder & CEO @ Outreach, the market leading sales engagement platform that turns your team into a revenue-driving machine. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Manny made his way to found the leader in sales engagement from product management at Amazon and Business Development @ Microsoft? *

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CAC Payback Basics: What It Is, How to Calculate It and Why It Matters

OpenView Labs

CAC encompasses all of the sales and marketing costs that a business has to shell out to land a single new customer (calculated as total sales & marketing expense in a period / total customers acquired in a period). It’s common to see a reduction in efficiency as a business scales, markets saturate, and competition increases.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

and we’re getting some great reviews, which is awesome. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Understanding Customer Success Management Compensation Models. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Customer Development.