Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Plus, since your customers pay the same price each month, a subscription box offers some degree of stability in your revenue stream, which helps you predict your finances more accurately. Improved Demand Forecasting. Develop a Business Plan. By offering a subscription-based service, it’s much easier to manage your stock levels.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Besides taking care of their own work, sales operations directors have to manage the entire sales ops team to ensure day-to-day tasks get accomplished. Sales leaders are constantly thinking about how revenue can be increased, and sales operations directors know best where there are opportunities for improvement on the sales team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. So it’s that.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

To date, the company has raised $120M in financing from Battery Ventures, Insight, Venrock, Costanoa, Bain Capital, and Salesforce Ventures to name a few. What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. Who is involved?

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SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2023

After three months, this talented guy came to Harbaugh with the recognition that LaunchDarkly’s customers were developers. He didn’t like to sell to developers, so he quit. Harbaugh had to sheepishly go to their new board member and tell them that instead of achieving their forecasts to go from $1M-$5, they’d be lucky to eke out $1.5M

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

In an environment marked by a global pandemic and market volatility, advocating for SaaS forecasting seems like a lost cause. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m It’s true: no one’s March forecast included a global pandemic.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team? Sam : This is not my insight, but someone else says… I really do believe it, that the team you build is the company you build.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How To Trick Investors & VCs by Only CFO The purpose of this post is not to educate you on how to commit/detect fraud, but to help you understand some of the accounting/finance nuances that might deceive investors. We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

In an environment marked by a global pandemic and market volatility, advocating for SaaS forecasting seems like a lost cause. In this article, I zoom in on the art of forecasting the future in this new wartime. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m It’s true: no one’s March forecast included a global pandemic.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Anthony defines these four core areas as the “finance and stakeholder ecosystem.” Everything in the finance and stakeholder ecosystem begins with the financial core (AKA, your accounting, budgeting, and SaaS metrics tools). People/HR Core.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Unlike revenue, where more is basically always better, and expenses, where lower is basically always better, cash in is not necessarily good and cash out is not necessarily bad. However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! What does cash flow modeling software do?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

High-quality companies will still be financed, if on less stratospheric terms. Structure generally means financing terms, such as multiple liquidation preferences or participation (definitions here ), that favor new investors over existing investors and the common stockholders in a liquidation. The structure pendulum: it’s back.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Agile finance teams don’t have time to wait around as a brand new system gets deployed. .

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed. The problem in private markets is private markets don’t adjust their pricing because it takes time until financing’s actually happen. So that kind of price discovery makes financing very difficult. So the market hates uncertainty.

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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. However, coaching is key to the development of sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

How to adjust your company’s 2020 forecast. How to adjust your company’s 2020 forecast [27:41]. As companies adapt to this new normal, keeping your sales team moving together is more essential than ever. When is it time to hire someone in customer success? How to organize customer success. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2021

Developing a revenue operations (RevOps) strategy — and the team to implement it — is no easy task. As the VP of Revenue Operations at Sales BQ®, I saw my role develop from primarily sales enablement to sales operations as we worked to understand and get a hold of the wide variety of roles RevOps is in charge of.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. However, as the latest State of Product Analytics report showed, the more data-literate and data-driven a product team is, the more likely product analytics is to be their main source of user insights. Why is Product Analytics important?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As for Allison, in her 5 years at Gainsight her list of achievements in endless from running all functions that drive value for Gainsight customers, now a 150 person team, to building out the corporate development function to being the right hand to the CEO. How can one approach setting up a services team for scale?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2021

Some benefits of S&OP include: Better sales and budget forecasting. Here, you will create a forecast for future product demand. Develop your forecasts based on past sales results. Also, examine new product development pipelines. Next, adjust your demand plan by product based on your sales forecasts.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. Sales and marketing tactics can vary, but to succeed, the teams need to be aligned around one plan : a revenue plan, not a sales plan and a marketing plan. I would run around trying to get forecasts from everybody, even though it wasn’t my primary position.

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