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Behind the Round with SaaStr:  Chorus.ai Raises $45 Million

SaaStr

And some of the marquee customers include MongoDB, Gitlab and Qualtrics. . Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . The funding comes at a point when Chorus is in the hypergrowth mode. Chorus’s AI has reveled some interesting insights from the data.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. The path to success is filled with challenges at every milestone.

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SaaS Financial Plan 2.0

The Angel VC

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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Zapier’s Richard Hall on why your support organization is a brain trust – not a cost center

Intercom, Inc.

Zapier’s support organization currently stands at close to 100 in headcount – almost a third of the entire company. The reason for this is because at Zapier, customer support is truly embraced as a window into the perspective and experience of the customer. Building a health score to measure success.

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The Playbook to Building a Customer Reference Program with Talkdesk SVP of Client Services Gillian Heltai (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Now, I joined Talkdesk kind of in the second stage, which is, hooray, you’ve got enough customers that you’re able to do references potentially at scale. At that point, often you’re using your customer success team, your AE team to really kind of manually manage this process there. Great support experience.

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5 Startup Roles That Help you Grow Faster

SaaSX

This is a dedicated role that helps distribute product knowledge across a fast-scaling sales and customer success team. If you have a simple product to set up and use, that customers buy with minimal sales & CS interaction, you don’t need this role. ” or “Can I wire payment?” Marketing technologist.

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

But Tara Bryant, SVP of Sales at Pipedrive, thinks this is a mistake if you don’t have the right processes, systems, and metrics in place first. When I started, they had a big growth plan as far as headcount, but they were a little bit looser on processes and cadences and things like that framework I was talking about.

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