Finance Sales Technical Cofounder Underperforming Technical Team 
FastSpring
APRIL 26, 2022
To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. Some churn is acceptable, perhaps even necessary — especially if you’re using a more B2C-style sales approach.
Chargify
APRIL 23, 2019
Seeking financing from friends and family. Establishing relationships with advisors and/or mentors. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Have an established, repeatable sales process .
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Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.
SaaStr
AUGUST 20, 2020
343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. I started my training on the technical side, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or engineer, in particular, thinking I wanted to do research.
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