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How to Choose SaaS Billing Software

Baremetrics

The benefits of a well-thought-out process includes increased visibility to your revenues, expenses, and cash flows, and a faster feedback loop to make your forecasting more operationally focused. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

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Why we invested in Athenian

Point Nine Land

If you take a look at a 50 person sales team, you’ll likely find it to be very data-driven. They usually track low-level metrics about their app performance or errors, and agile teams have burn-down charts. Previous attempts failed or didn’t get a lot of adoption, usually because of some combination of these issues: Poor data quality.

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Sales Forecasts and Pipeline Reviews: Why and How

Point Nine Land

A methodology in five simple steps I learned how to run forecast and pipeline reviews, first, by distilling what my sales managers did when I was a sales rep and, then, building my own systems as a sales leader at Revinate, at Framer, and advising a number of B2B SaaS companies. Why forecasting? I’ll suggest two perspectives here.

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7 Tips to Close 7,000 Customers From Gorgias’ VP of Sales

SaaStr

A mentor of mine suggested that I reframe my search to seek out companies that I would invest in, instead of the other way around. He told me, you can invest time, talent, or treasure. Unfortunately for me, I had little experience, not much talent, and lacked the treasure/money to invest. It seemed like the best investment! .

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Clouded Judgement 1.6.23

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? Given most software companies are not profitable, or not generating meaningful FCF, it’s the only metric to compare the entire industry against.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

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