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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. Even this year, one of the big vendors for us quit three weeks ago. A key vendor that we’ve relied on for years. More likely than not, but barely.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics?

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. MRR numbers were changing all the time. I realized we had a moving target for the most important metric in our company. 2 different North Star metrics?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And we’re constantly aligning the metrics in that business plan back to the technology and understanding which dials we need to turn, which types of implementational product feature functions do we need to use that will directly equate to these types of things. So it starts there. That business case becomes the success plan, right?

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

If you are trying to overcome no brand and market, you can’t ask somebody for a three year contract. Or, if you do ask for a three year contract, have some terms in there that show that you’re going to prove ROI. Down the road, you can say, “ I demand a two year contract. It’s helpful early on.