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SaaS Finance MeetUP – Scaling Finance

OPEXEngine

The SaaS Finance MeetUPs help provide context for our benchmarking community to the OPEXEngine benchmarks and content that we develop. Be carefully bold about affecting change and helping to guide the company in an evolving world and marketplace. Anup works on G&A and FP&A transformation with numerous clients.

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SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank (Pod 617 + Video)

SaaStr

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Entering a crowded marketplace as a new business can be intimidating, especially when established players with a solid customer base surround you.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. “First of all, the go-to-market teams are all partner teams.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. ’ “The first thing we did was to try to understand where buying behaviors changed, and develop customer segments that were predominantly based on size. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Also, there is focus on changing terms to try and close and accelerate deals, reducing time commitment requirements for contracts, pricing minimums to get to a yes more quickly, and then also focusing on cash and cash collections by building more efficiency in that process. Contract modifications were still so decentralized.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

In SaaS vs. marketplaces? We use a separate Jira project for the following reasons: Jira because it is well integrated into…Jira where we manage all our developers’ tickets. Assign the right priority to bugs and the right status for them to be picked up by developers today (for critical bugs) or later (for non-critical bugs).