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5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company

SaaSX

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. Ideally, as a company scales, headcount doesn’t scale exactly in tandem. Ah…you know there can’t be a B2B software article that doesn’t mention churn, right?

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

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return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Sales & Marketing Metrics. Once the 1.5x

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

Chart Mogul

return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Sales & Marketing Metrics. Once the 1.5x

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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The Playbook to Building a Customer Reference Program with Talkdesk SVP of Client Services Gillian Heltai (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Customer reference program went from something that was nice to have and important to absolutely critical to our new business sales cycle.

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

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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Rules to Run Your SaaS Business By

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. The number of employees when things get particularly troublesome are three, 10, 30, 100, 300 and 1,000 - before company headcount hits these milestones you’ll need to rethink how you operate. Retention trumps acquisition.