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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations. Change sales’ mental math.

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

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. First, some SaaS companies deliberately run with a low set-up product, little to no services, and a customer success team that takes care of implementation issues. Change sales’ mental math.

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Customer Health Scores

ChurnZero

Customer health scores give Customer Success teams a deep understanding of a customer’s health and are a leading indicator that there may be an issue with an account or customer. A customer health score is a value that indicates the likelihood that a customer will renew their subscription or service with your company.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

Stock-based compensation (SBC) is increasingly controversial. Management teams should prepare themselves for activist investors and adapt their financial profile to keep valuations high. Those business-oriented CS teams who thought customer advocacy meant generating customers who advocate for the company will continue to thrive.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Gainsight and WP Engine — September 13, 2019

SaaStr

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?