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

SaaStr

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. You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. For Linda, it all comes down to your approach to customer success.

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Thanks to ChartMogul, ChurnZero, Cledara, Secureframe, and Verdane for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

ChurnZero is the Customer Success platform and partner for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. You need an efficient way to keep your customers successful, reduce churn, drive adoption, and increase net revenue retention.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

Challenge #3: Making Your Product, Sales, and Marketing Organizations Enterprise-Ready How do you actually get your entire organization aligned so they can support your Enterprise customers? You also need dedicated resources across your organization — marketing, customer success, product, legal, and finance.

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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

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. You will need a VP of Engineering to manage these processes, recruit and build the team, and make your product more secure and enterprise-ready.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. They demonstrate spectacular growth and expansion while revolutionizing and disrupting industries with new business models.

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Thanks to BEE, ChurnZero, Laika, Quolum, and Stax for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

ChurnZero is Customer Success software for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. Laika is an enterprise-ready compliance platform that lets growing companies compete on the same level as any large organization. Our platform is uniquely designed to integrate with CRM systems and tightly into an application or service.

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