Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Here’s an edited version of Mark’s top ten enterprise software startup mistakes list, along with a few comments prefaced by DK. You should leverage backdoor references.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

That doesn’t mean they are “bad” Many, in fact, will thrive as a VP or Director somewhere else. Selling to SMBs is just not the same as mapping out 5 SVPs at a big enterprise. Someone selling Gong today often will really struggle selling a complex developer product or nuanced pharma SaaS.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Enterprise will likely have a different problem set vs. an SMB. That’s a mistake.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? Whatever your reasons for researching this topic, the good news for you is that your team can take ownership of many of your application security testing activities.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sequoia Capital’s India arm put together a terrific summary of all their learnings about SaaS and Cloud from SaaStr Annual this year. They also did an A+ session at Annual with several top India SaaS founders, which you can catch below! Here’s 22 of the most relevant takeaways for India’s SaaS ecosystem.

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Chaotic Flow

AUGUST 18, 2015

SaaS businesses develop intimate, long term relationships with their SaaS customers. In fact, many public SaaS companies have yet to turn a profit. This is the third post in a series that explores the importance of SaaS customer alignment across the SaaS customer lifecycle. SaaS Customer Alignment Tip #7.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Both are two of the most impressive and inspiring public SaaS CEOs — but their products and companies couldn’t be more different. One was to get a sense of what the bar was to pull off a successful SaaS IPO these days (answer = oh man, very high). Do you have two sales teams? It’s not just building the 1.0,

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the complexity of multiple stakeholders and the increasing purchasing influence of end users, the bar is higher than ever for enterprise UX as companies pioneer business models beyond traditional SaaS. Very excited to talk to you today about building consumer grade products for the enterprise. Bela : Yeah, absolutely.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Rolling out these new features quickly can help companies earn price increases.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. ease of use.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 12, 2023

But if the SaaS security of your applications isn't up to industry standards, your company becomes vulnerable to attackers who can exploit vulnerabilities to trigger data breaches and hurt your reputation. In this way, your developers can fix important security issues when they are developing your applications.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Chart Mogul

MAY 30, 2019

Ingmar, our VP of Customer Success, and our support team cracked the code on first response time and measuring NPS. As we grow, we’re able to spend more time developing the proactive tiers of the pyramid without de-prioritizing a strong foundation of fast, helpful ticket replies and features that delight.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Scytale

JANUARY 31, 2024

Type of SOC 2 Report Initiating the SOC 2 project requires a comprehensive understanding from the project team, management, and leadership regarding the type of SOC 2 report they want to pursue. The controls necessary for large enterprises, like Google, significantly differ from those required by startups.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 8, 2021

And that’s exactly why we’ve put together this list of the best resources around SaaS and B2B sales. What Interviewing 600+ Sales Reps Taught Me About Team Building. 14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions. 14 SaaS Leaders Share Their Favorite Interview Questions. What’s your biggest weakness?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. What is feature adoption in SaaS? In SaaS, feature adoption takes place when customers get introduced to a new feature and start using it frequently to meet their goals.

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ChurnZero

JULY 22, 2022

Does your Customer Success team have a shallow view of onboarding? The webinar’s Q&A session covered popular onboarding questions in SaaS like how long it should take a customer to reach first value, what should you do when a customer disengages, and how to hold customers accountable at scale. I have two handoffs.

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User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. Let’s get started!

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. We also have a quick look at Userpilot as a worthy Pendo alternative. What is Pendo?

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I'm going to reveal to you a specific automated penetration testing tool that not only helps you discover vulnerabilities, but it's one that is actually built to be used by your software development team without the need for help from external security teams. Can I Pentest My Own Web Application and APIs? It is simple!

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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is becoming the default strategy in modern SaaS organizations due to the plethora of operational, financial, and technical benefits it brings to the table. If you are working in a SaaS setting, chances are you have used applications like Slack, Zendesk, Zoom, Calendly, Dropbox, Figma, and Evernote extensively.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Sales , also known as “sales/outbound,” when a quota-carrying salesrep does their own prospecting, typically found in named-account territory models, and develops an opportunity themselves. Say you’ve just created an RSI alliances team and want them generating 10% of oppties. Attribution issues (i.e.,

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Upscope

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We found SaaS enterprise pricing to be quite confusing at first but having been through the process enough now, here's our advice for our younger selves. We cover 3 main enterprise deals and how each turned out. Any large company paying around $1,000+ per month is enterprise for Upscope. Upscope is a co-browsing solution.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While common, it’s a bad idea. Now, let’s dive into the use of demos as a call-to-action (CTA) both on your website and by your sales development reps (SDRs) [1]. Now, let’s dive into the use of demos as a call-to-action (CTA) both on your website and by your sales development reps (SDRs) [1]. Cringeworthy.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. These days, by contrast, more and more executives are taking an interest given tech debt’s impact on enterprise value. Measuring tech debt.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The freemium SaaS model , where you offer limited free use of your product to promote a premium version, has become common in the tech industry. But is it the best way to sell a SaaS product? We’ll take a closer look at what the freemium SaaS model is and what its pros and cons are. What Is the Freemium SaaS Model?

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