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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

Many of them said headcount management and spend were common levers they pulled, given the immediate and significant impact they have on spend. This is why there’s no one-size-fits-all advice for scaling efficiently because every company is different. years of runway and are below the Rule of 40.

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Making the Business Case to the CFO: 5 Questions You Should Answer

BetterCloud

For example, during the roaring 2021/2022 IT investment boom, IT has more latitude to invest without the strong involvement of finance leadership. According to early 2023 CFO magazine research , 84% said they expect to be more involved in developing technology strategy than they were in 2022. Especially financial leadership.

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Engineering Planning During Uncertain Economic Times

OPEXEngine

During times of uncertainty, executive leadership teams make more conservative financial decisions in order to prepare for and/or prevent any major difficulties for the companies that they lead. Do you need to make tough decisions about team headcount? But it’s the closest thing to an operating plan for the current leadership vision.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Strategy - annually changes. Customer > Team > Individual During my time at HubSpot, the leadership team shared this mental model to help with decision-making. Operational efficiency. One of the Amazon Leadership Principles , “Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit” does just that. Brand equity. Customer data.

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What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross 

SaaStr

In their most recent earnings call, they made a change in strategy to lean more into product-led. One of the strategy changes is to say, “Hey if we turn up the innovation and actual product quality, can we ultimately get around having to spend all this money on advertising?” And how do you think about CAC for those free-ish people?

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Facing economic challenges in Customer Success? Revisit the foundations of your program

ChurnZero

As a CS leader, these tools help keep your team lean, standardize your operations, and give your C-suite visibility into decisions about headcount and tooling. At that point, you’ll probably have customers who are on legacy programs that may not be part of your go-forward strategy, and customers who are a good fit.

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The why, when, and how of customer (re-)segmentation with ChurnZero CCO Alli Tiscornia

ChurnZero

If (nearly) missed targets are becoming the norm, it might be time for you to dust off and revamp your customer segmentation strategy. Alli: Customer employee headcount aligned well for us with contract value and customer revenue. Does your Customer Success team have the right structure, workload, and engagement model to hit its goals?