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Planning and executing any experiment is crucial but is only half the battle. It’s analyzing all of the data that’s the other half, and perhaps the scariest. But it doesn’t have to be scary. MORE
Keeping your existing users is much more cost effective that finding and converting new leads. Despite this, the average business mailing list loses 25% of its subscribers every year. Reactivating your lapsed customers is key to preventing them from becoming lost customers. MORE
Why Revenue Intelligence? Why Now? Quite possibly one of the most interesting years of our careers. Everything you thought you knew about managing your revenue operations was stamped with a giant question mark. In-person demos were canceled indefinitely. You became virtual sellers overnight. MORE
I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it). MORE
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because they are faster, cheaper, easier, higher quality, etc. MORE
In 2010 my brother Mike and I took our e-gift card startup, Instagift , through Techstars Seattle. The experience changed my life. We were guided by incredible mentors, worked in an amazing space, and ultimately raised money for the first time in our entrepreneurial careers. My favorite part of my Techstars experience was spending every day, for three straight months, surrounded by other founders fighting for their early stage companies. Those long days and late nights as a group were magical. MORE
It took us 2 years just to figure out our ultimate business model. What you think you do on day 1 may look very different by day 365. link]. — Aaron Levie (@levie) September 11, 2020. It seems like everyone wants to be a SaaS founder these days. MORE
What if you could hire a robot to take over repetitive tasks and manage essential parts of your business without you (or another human) having to lift a finger? It sounds like a futuristic, far-fetched idea, but thankfully it isn’t. MORE
I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last thing I am going to click is “Contact Me.” MORE
If you get even 10 paying customers in your first 90 days in market, and they don't churn … You have something. Never, ever quit then. Even if you have no money. Even if the team isn't sure. Even if the competition is fierce. Even if they say it's too hard. MORE
We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to make that critical hire: the VP Sales. I’ve done it right, and I’ve done it wrong. When it’s good … it’s just so good. It all clicks. But when you make a mis-hire, it’s about the worst mis-hire you can make. MORE
Second-timers know the playbook and can execute against it faster. But often times, they also have a bit of healthy skepticism, a bit of baggage, from the last time. First-timers often know very little, but are baggage free. That can be very powerful. MORE
IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. More here: [link]. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. The other day I was meeting with a great CEO who had raised a modest seed round. MORE
Ari Levine has learned to approach everything from the position of the consumer. Even in B2B enterprises, that buyer is a person and we shouldn't forget that. Let's learn how to be more human in our outreach approach and create quality connections with our target audience. MORE
Co-Founder and CEO of Lemlist, the coolest sales automation platform ever created, shares tips and tricks to grow a SaaS company in a B2B space, from scratch! The post Building a Successful B2B Outbound Sales Strategy From Scratch appeared first on Predictable Revenue. MORE
Managers waste over 140 hours a year manually creating schedules for their employees. Furthermore, manual scheduling errors can increase your turnover rate by as much as 174%. The good news is that’s not what your scheduling process has to look like. MORE
As we begin strategic planning season for next year, there one topic a lot that comes up a lot: Should We Just Let Our Smallest Customers Go? MORE
This is a guest post from Benjamin Brandall. Benjamin is a content marketer at Process Street , where he writes on startups, SaaS, and workflows. In his spare time, he runs Secret Cave , a site covering obscure entertainment and internet culture MORE
When you take a more proactive approach, you are able to guide the pace of the sales process to better support your company’s bottom line. You can also ensure you are working with the right decision maker who can move through the sales process with you, resulting in a win. MORE
The best sales teams consistently deliver for their organizations, plain and simple. It’s not just the effort of one or two rainmakers, but one of the entire team. This is no mistake, as the elite teams are relentless in their development of sales skills. MORE
The SaaS sales playbook applied best to a product-led growth when it is adapted to be sales-assisted versus sales led MORE
Churn is a universal problem that every company faces. Let's look at some real-life examples and understand how companies in SaaS dealt away with churn MORE
Raising capital can be one of the most difficult parts of the founder journey. The more you know about cap tables and term sheets, negotiating tactics and letters of intent, the better positioned you’ll be for investor meetings. Techstars cofounder Brad Feld and Techstars mentor Jason Mendelson—partners at the Foundry Group, and authors of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist —are excited to open enrollment for their Venture Deals, Spring 2020 online course. MORE
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I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. That they can get away without no one in the role, or a just a junior person in marketing, in product, in success, in biz dev, etc. MORE
Conversational marketing has conquered the SaaS industry long ago. Software companies engage, qualify, and recommend visitors with the help of chatbots who set new rules for improving user experience. After exploring this post, you will know 1) What is conversational marketing and how it works, 2) What is making CM a successful strategy, 3) How to increase conversions through CM, 4) How your SaaS peers leverage CM so far. Stay us till the end. MORE
KBCM TECHNOLOGY GROUP SAAS SURVEY – COVID EDITION For the eighth year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey! MORE
“A culture is not a set of beliefs; it’s a set of actions.” Bushido MORE
When users interact with the World Wide Web, they tend to be rather lenient with their activity online and consider the consequences of their actions a little less. Whether it’s because they’re not physically doing something or they feel they’re unlikely to be detected, it’s still a risky game to play. Considering just how enormous the internet is, it can actually be relatively easy to get caught from doing something unethical. The same goes for SEO and using optimisation strategies. MORE
Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. Managing people isn’t always fun. MORE
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2020
I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. In my first start-up, yes I sold to the enterprise. I sold $6m our first year (man, that sounds good looking back on it).
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Keeping your existing users is much more cost effective that finding and converting new leads. Despite this, the average business mailing list loses 25% of its subscribers every year. Reactivating your lapsed customers is key to preventing them from becoming lost customers.
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Predictable Revenue
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Ari Levine has learned to approach everything from the position of the consumer. Even in B2B enterprises, that buyer is a person and we shouldn't forget that. Let's learn how to be more human in our outreach approach and create quality connections with our target audience.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 18, 2020
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because they are faster, cheaper, easier, higher quality, etc.
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For Entrepreneurs with David Skok
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
KBCM TECHNOLOGY GROUP SAAS SURVEY – COVID EDITION For the eighth year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey!
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SaaSX
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The SaaS sales playbook applied best to a product-led growth when it is adapted to be sales-assisted versus sales led
InsightSquared
JULY 21, 2020
The best sales teams consistently deliver for their organizations, plain and simple. It’s not just the effort of one or two rainmakers, but one of the entire team. This is no mistake, as the elite teams are relentless in their development of sales skills.
Cobloom
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
This is a guest post from Benjamin Brandall. Benjamin is a content marketer at Process Street , where he writes on startups, SaaS, and workflows. In his spare time, he runs Secret Cave , a site covering obscure entertainment and internet culture
Chargebee
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Churn is a universal problem that every company faces. Let's look at some real-life examples and understand how companies in SaaS dealt away with churn
Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director of DevSecOps Team, Intuit
You've finally done it: You've won over C-Suite and your DevSecOps team is up and running. But how do you monitor your new program? Join Shannon Lietz, Leader and Director of DevsecOps at Intuit, and learn to lead your DevSecOps team to the top.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Second-timers know the playbook and can execute against it faster. But often times, they also have a bit of healthy skepticism, a bit of baggage, from the last time. First-timers often know very little, but are baggage free. That can be very powerful.
SaaStr
AUGUST 17, 2020
Here’s my list of the best golden advice I was given as a first-time — and second-time — CEO: Manage People — In General, and Earlier. The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. Managing people isn’t always fun.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
If you get even 10 paying customers in your first 90 days in market, and they don't churn … You have something. Never, ever quit then. Even if you have no money. Even if the team isn't sure. Even if the competition is fierce. Even if they say it's too hard.
Chargebee
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
“A culture is not a set of beliefs; it’s a set of actions.” Bushido
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In today’s climate, it’s more important than ever for SaaS companies to build rock-solid financial models on which they can operate and make key business decisions. The teams at SaaSOptics and Burkland have teamed up to create a comprehensive guide to the most difficult aspect of financial modeling: revenue forecasting.
Predictable Revenue
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Co-Founder and CEO of Lemlist, the coolest sales automation platform ever created, shares tips and tricks to grow a SaaS company in a B2B space, from scratch! The post Building a Successful B2B Outbound Sales Strategy From Scratch appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
TechStars
JANUARY 30, 2020
In 2010 my brother Mike and I took our e-gift card startup, Instagift , through Techstars Seattle. The experience changed my life. We were guided by incredible mentors, worked in an amazing space, and ultimately raised money for the first time in our entrepreneurial careers. My favorite part of my Techstars experience was spending every day, for three straight months, surrounded by other founders fighting for their early stage companies. Those long days and late nights as a group were magical.
The Daily Egg
AUGUST 31, 2020
Managers waste over 140 hours a year manually creating schedules for their employees. Furthermore, manual scheduling errors can increase your turnover rate by as much as 174%. The good news is that’s not what your scheduling process has to look like.
Incredo
JANUARY 29, 2020
When users interact with the World Wide Web, they tend to be rather lenient with their activity online and consider the consequences of their actions a little less. Whether it’s because they’re not physically doing something or they feel they’re unlikely to be detected, it’s still a risky game to play. Considering just how enormous the internet is, it can actually be relatively easy to get caught from doing something unethical. The same goes for SEO and using optimisation strategies.
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Does your analytics solution work with your current tech stack and DevOps practices? If not, any update to the analytics could increase deployment complexity and become difficult to maintain. Learn the 5 elements of a DevOps-friendly embedded analytics solution.
InsightSquared
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Why Revenue Intelligence? Why Now? Quite possibly one of the most interesting years of our careers. Everything you thought you knew about managing your revenue operations was stamped with a giant question mark. In-person demos were canceled indefinitely. You became virtual sellers overnight.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 15, 2020
It took us 2 years just to figure out our ultimate business model. What you think you do on day 1 may look very different by day 365. link]. — Aaron Levie (@levie) September 11, 2020. It seems like everyone wants to be a SaaS founder these days.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2020
I hear again and again from SaaS founders growing to $5m, $10m ARR or even more that they don’t need a certain VP — with the exception of a VP of Sales. That they can get away without no one in the role, or a just a junior person in marketing, in product, in success, in biz dev, etc.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 7, 2020
I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last thing I am going to click is “Contact Me.”
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As a group who provides the software tools necessary to manage the contracts to cash process, Aysling onboards users and projects daily, and has learned some important tips if you want to be successful when onboarding new clients and/or projects.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 26, 2020
As we begin strategic planning season for next year, there one topic a lot that comes up a lot: Should We Just Let Our Smallest Customers Go?
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. More here: [link]. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019. The other day I was meeting with a great CEO who had raised a modest seed round.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 16, 2020
We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how to make that critical hire: the VP Sales. I’ve done it right, and I’ve done it wrong. When it’s good … it’s just so good. It all clicks. But when you make a mis-hire, it’s about the worst mis-hire you can make.
Predictable Revenue
AUGUST 4, 2020
When you take a more proactive approach, you are able to guide the pace of the sales process to better support your company’s bottom line. You can also ensure you are working with the right decision maker who can move through the sales process with you, resulting in a win.
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TechStars
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Raising capital can be one of the most difficult parts of the founder journey. The more you know about cap tables and term sheets, negotiating tactics and letters of intent, the better positioned you’ll be for investor meetings. Techstars cofounder Brad Feld and Techstars mentor Jason Mendelson—partners at the Foundry Group, and authors of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist —are excited to open enrollment for their Venture Deals, Spring 2020 online course.
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
What if you could hire a robot to take over repetitive tasks and manage essential parts of your business without you (or another human) having to lift a finger? It sounds like a futuristic, far-fetched idea, but thankfully it isn’t.
Incredo
JANUARY 21, 2020
Conversational marketing has conquered the SaaS industry long ago. Software companies engage, qualify, and recommend visitors with the help of chatbots who set new rules for improving user experience. After exploring this post, you will know 1) What is conversational marketing and how it works, 2) What is making CM a successful strategy, 3) How to increase conversions through CM, 4) How your SaaS peers leverage CM so far. Stay us till the end.
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