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How Customer-Driven, Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Changes Everything

OpenView Labs

Some SaaS companies still have the pricing strategy that their founder picked after a thirty minute whiteboarding session five years ago; those startups subist but rarely thrive. After fifteen years of running Logikcull, a Series B legal tech startup (and OpenView portfolio company), I’ve learned a lot about the art and science of pricing, particularly when I transitioned Logikcull from a managed service to software-as-a-service.

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How to Find Product/Market Fit

Cobloom

Growing a SaaS startup is an all-consuming grind. But there comes a point when the late nights and hard decisions become a little bit easier. You're still devoting every waking thought to product development, sales process improvements and marketing - but now, you have a little bit more confidence in your hard graft. Because what you're doing is working.

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100k+ ACV SaaS Companies: Do Their Metrics Differ from Other SaaS Companies?

Tom Tunguz

When we published the results of the freemium survey earlier this year , we noticed respondents targeting the enterprise observed higher net dollar retention and lower churn than those startups targeting other segments. I wondered if we could observe any other patterns about enterprise businesses, so I produced this analysis of public companies with ACVs (annual contract values) of $100k or greater.

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What are the pros and cons of selling a company? Do you ever regret selling?

SaaStr

It’s complicated. Having a “good exit” is a special thing. You will make some money, perhaps even life-changing money. It will prove you can do it. It will Level You Up in the hierarchy of founders. You will have beaten the odds, and be a “winner”. But as time goes by, you may see it all differently. You may see you only get so many at-bats. At least most of us only have so many.

Scale 194
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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How to perfect sales operations: part 6 of Predictable Revenue’s outbound sales learnings from 2018

Predictable Revenue

We'll discuss how the obsession with perfecting the Marketing Qualified Lead and the inside sales model has led to CQL(Conversation Qualified Leads), and to Drift using bots instead of traditional SDR's. We'll also cover the three main principles for governing day to day sales operations and Zendesk's sales stages! The post How to perfect sales operations: part 6 of Predictable Revenue’s outbound sales learnings from 2018 appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Product managers should not build the roadmap. The product team should.

Intercom, Inc.

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25 Online Marketing Tactics to Launch Your Small Businesses into the Stratosphere

Nimble - Sales

Any business owner struggles to promote their company on a limited budget. Online marketing can be a solution here as it requires fewer investments compared to traditional strategies and helps quickly reach new audiences. In this article, we will tell you about 25 proven online marketing strategies for small business. So, let’s get started. About […].

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Q&A with RTVision on Streamlining B2B SaaS Financial Operations

SaaSOptics

Since 1999, RTVision’s SaaS solution has helped local governments and their partners streamline complex operations, inspire public engagement and protect data integrity.

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What Is a Lead? (Hint: You’re Thinking About It Wrong)

Sales Hacker

If you’re new to sales or marketing, you may be asking yourself, “What is a lead?”. In this article, you’ll learn what a lead is, how to start working a new lead, and how to reach out to qualified leads. Let’s get started, shall we? What Is a Lead? The start of a potential sales process is a lead, and there are many ways to obtain leads as there are stars in the sky.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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The ultimate guide to sales development

CloseSaaS

Things used to be a lot simpler. Marketing was responsible for building interest and generating leads and then sales would pick up the baton and close revenue. Easy.

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Have a Successful Blog? Consider Putting Premium Content Behind a Paywall

Subscription DNA

It seems the public is coming to the end of an era when it comes to free content on the Internet. While most of us… Read more. The post Have a Successful Blog? Consider Putting Premium Content Behind a Paywall appeared first on Subscription DNA.

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Building Company Culture, Before It’s Too Late

Mucker Capital

When I was leading my last business, I always knew that company culture was important. But what I needed to do about it and when to do it was a mystery to me. With a thousand other things demanding my time, thinking about culture was perpetually on the back burner. This was fine for a while until suddenly it felt too late. The Moment that Culture Becomes Crucial.

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PODCAST 63: Translating Big Companies Principles to Small Companies w/ Ben Wright

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Ben Wright , Chief Revenue Officer at EAT Club. He’s been around the block. He’s on the podcast chatting about moving from a big company like Yahoo! to a small company like EAT Club. How did he transition from a large to small company? If you missed episode 62, check it out here: PODCAST 62: Managing People and Incentivizing Sales Team w/ Kathleen Roberge.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?