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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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Chief Revenue Regrets: Relying on Reps to Provide Forecasting Deal Data

InsightSquared

Throughout his three decades of experience running revenue organizations, he has seen the good — and plenty of the bad. That made it difficult to assess the health of my funnel and have confidence in the forecast that I was accountable to deliver. . This piece will focus on the importance of activity capture.

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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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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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The New Era of SaaS Forecasting

Baremetrics

If you’re like most SaaS founders, you’ve googled for a saas financial template you can use to forecast your subscription business. As of the writing of this post, a query for “SaaS forecasting” returns 2.8 Yet, while forecasting subscription businesses is a new frontier, it’s far from the state of the art.

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Top 10 Business Metrics for Shopify App Developers

Baremetrics

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

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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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