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SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Amias Gerety Partner at QED on Fintech Beat (Podcast 685)

SaaStr

While the world of public tech stocks is defined by consumer-facing juggernauts like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, the world of venture capital is defined by the North Star of SaaS. By freezing headcount for a year. How An Investor Chooses To Invest and What Makes An Epic Founder As an investor, Lemkin is highly concentrated.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

SaaStr

Pepper shares that ICONIQ, a venture capital firm with $10B under management, made fewer investments last year than ever before. Many of them said headcount management and spend were common levers they pulled, given the immediate and significant impact they have on spend. PST, to unveil the data behind effective scaling.

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Your Sales Efficiency Will Probably Plummet Toward $10m ARR. Plan For It.

SaaStr

Specialization works — but it’s an up-front investment. But specializing across the sales process will take more headcount. in venture capital $$$ to compete in spaces where you generally lose. You’ll need a couple of folks in sales ops just to keep up with the team and growth. More SDR: AE pairing.

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ChurnZero Named Customer Success Leader in G2 Winter 2020 Report

ChurnZero

The new Customer Success Software Momentum Grid from G2 showcases CS solutions with the highest growth trajectory on a product’s user satisfaction, online presence, and employee headcount growth over the last year. More than three million users per month rely on G2.com com to help them find and buy the best software for their businesses.

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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. And I don’t necessarily mean 10X in terms of headcount – I mean 10X in terms of efficiency.

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ChurnZero Leads G2’s Momentum Report for Customer Success Software

ChurnZero

The new Customer Success Software Momentum Grid from G2 showcases CS solutions with the highest growth trajectory on a product’s user satisfaction, online presence, and employee headcount growth over the last year. More than three million users per month rely on G2.com com to help them find and buy the best software for their businesses.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

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This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake.

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