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

SaaStr

Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. 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’ll need more than 5–10 engineers to go big. She can be your CTO forever.

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

SaaStr

Upsell and retention is an art, science and craft. 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 can’t hack it forever. You’ll need more than 5–6 core engineers to go big. She can be your CTO forever.

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6 Aptrinsic Competitors You’ll Kick Yourself for not Knowing About!

SmartKarrot

The customer’s gone. It was at a time when SaaS companies were spending considerable time pouring over features and pricing of Customer Success tools that Aptrinsic, a product-led growth solution with analytics prowess and in-product engagements hit the market. SmartKarrot is a powerhouse package of customer success platform.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

How to efficiently collect feedback from customer-facing teams? As your company grows, the customer facing teams (sales, customer support, customer success,…) are growing and the number of questions flowing to the product teams is growing: Is it possible to do this? How is it working? When are we going to do that?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Facebook Workplace and Slack ? May 29, 2020

SaaStr

I guess the other thing is when you think about the wall to wall adoption that you see, obviously you have some great numbers especially, around retention specifically. In terms of metrics, how do you determine success and product market fit itself within an organization? Oculus our VR gaming platform is now enterprise ready.

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