SaaStr

JULY 6, 2020

Invest more there. If yours is, invest more there and worry a little less about pressure to do new things, new market segments, etc. Now, I just tell the founders I invested in they can have what I have reserved for later whenever they want ( if they’ve earned it). Truly beloved products win. Double down there.

Part-Time VPE 247

Part-Time VPE Scale Market Segmentation Finance 247

SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. Many people think it’s cheaper than a sales or marketing-led initiative, and it’s the wrong way to do it. The right way to do freemium , PLG, or low-end initiatives is… To say, “ Things are going pretty well, but we’re losing this segment of the market.

Part-Time VPE 173

Part-Time VPE Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire 173

User Pilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Segmenting Your Target Market Market research plays a key role in segmenting your target audience into manageable segments. These market segments are typically grouped by similar needs or attributes, and display similar responses in marketing research surveys and initiatives. Lifestyle choices.

Market Research 52

Market Research Sales Recruiting Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 52

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the most fundamental changes any startup can go through is entering this market niche. In their early stages, SaaS software startups typically target the early adopters in the tech or mid-market segments. Unique Ways to Use the B2B SaaS Business Model to Leverage Your Business’s Revenue Growth 1.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payments Business Model Payment Services 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Specialization works — but it’s an up-front investment. ” This is when you compete aggressively not only in the market segments where you have a big competitive advantage, and usually win (which usually has a much cheaper CAC) … but to win big, you also use your $20m, $40m, etc. More SDR: AE pairing.

Sales Hiring 225

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Venture Capital 225

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ideally, lenders look for 12+ months of starting cash runway prior to need for debt, but that can vary on a case-by-case basis depending on factors such as debt size, lender risk tolerance, capital invested to date, and the scale/growth of the business. Even if the loan tape is small, it can be helpful to share monthly data.

Outsourcing Services 116

Outsourcing Services Software Review Scale Banking 116

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

In the face of an economic softening, a lot of companies scale back on expenses while they wait to see what unfolds. While that poses a number of challenges, it’s also an opportunity for revenue leaders to look at systems, processes, data, and tech to make sure you’re investing your time and energy as efficiently as possible.

Scale 91

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Headcount 91

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We’d been doing some investment, the product and technology leaders, but we talked about creating a proper investment fund to spur innovation around Workday ecosystem to get earlier stage companies, part of the Workday story for our customers. And I found some exciting things happening in a lot of investments.

Development Team Review 130

Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 130

SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2023

At the SaaStr Annual, Kiren Sekar, Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer and founding chief Product Officer shared five lessons he learned along the way from scaling six products to $100M+. Discovering the entire market and mapping out all potential verticals early in the process. The incredible power and value of the mid-market segment.

Scale 238

Scale Scaling Strategy Sales Hiring 238

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to your tech stack, other than feasibility and ROI, you need to focus on two main things: Does it scale with growth? Automating the right finance processes means future-proofing your business to scale while saving costs and reducing the burden on your finance team. Measure what matters and invest appropriately.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS 52

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple has been careful which customers they invest in, making sure that their product roadmap aligns with where they continue to see the “hockey puck” moving. And so I did early stints at Zillow, Tumblr and a company called Fiscal Note, all in different markets, doing different things in different market segments.

Payment Methods 115

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 115

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

If a company expands into a new geography, the benefits of that investment in new sales could take years. For product sales companies, once the sales are made, the investment is repaid more quickly. For SaaS companies, the investment is not recouped until after years of initial SaaS revenues. Deferred Revenue = Deferred Profits.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

The Angel VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

7th DO for SaaS startups Build a repeatable, profitable sales process Sales is a very different animal depending on the stage of your company, the market segment you're going after and on whether we're talking about inbound sales or outbound sales. Be "obsessively focused on getting to product/market fit", as Marc Andreessen put it.

Scale 153

Scale Sales Hiring Startup Sales 153

User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Growth initiatives are strategies and projects intended to increase a company’s customer base, market share, revenue, or profitability. Prioritizing features that cater to the underserved market segments, on the other hand, allows you to increase your market share. What are the different types of business growth?

Acquisition 104

Acquisition Scale Onboarding Marketplace as a Service 104

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

It just doesn’t work as a metaphor anymore to describe how people really buy and describe how modern organizations really scale. It’s got to scale on the back end. Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. We’re trying to solve for that return on investment.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 107

Unbounce

JULY 7, 2021

48% of small businesses say they will stick with ecomm long after the pandemic—and then we’re just mentioning one specific market segment. ” Conversion Intelligence—A Smarter Way to Market. We can go down the rabbit hole of stats citing that marketers don’t have time, budget, or the resources to optimize campaigns.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Marketing AI 145

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

Sales leaders can use ICP scores to coach reps on the level of investment they should make in a specific account. If the deal is unlike anything you’ve ever won before, you’ll want to invest more time to validate the opportunity with the rep before investing too much effort into it. Win Rate by Meeting Number.

Scale 62

Scale Metrics Sales Forecasting 62

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Keeping your customer acquisition costs low ensures that you’ll have greater profit margins, which can then be re-invested into your business and employees. In this case, you can run a cohort analysis across these market segments and see what acquisition methods perform best. Social Media. billion eyeballs. .

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

Chart Mogul

JUNE 8, 2018

The nature of the VC model means that every investment they make needs to have the potential to deliver a huge, outsized return — most companies fail, especially at the seed stage. It should be clear how you’re planning to expand your total addressable market (TAM).” On increasing transparency in venture capital.

Venture Capital 84

Venture Capital Software Review Scale Startup 84

OpenView Labs

MARCH 30, 2020

Any sort of churn helps you to understand if your product is providing value for your customers, if it’s priced fairly, if you’re targeting the right market segments and so much more. Yes, benchmarks can be helpful in providing context and framing reasonable expectations when you’re just beginning to scale a SaaS business.

Benchmarks 54

Benchmarks Technical Review Churn Scale 54

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. Look at the scale. SaaS provided provided both a market disruption opportunity and a total available market (TAM) expansion in each market segment.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

Category owners or “kings” are often lauded in the SaaS industry where they take a disproportionately large chunk of market revenue. This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Marketo (marketing automation). So what’s left?

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital Scale Cloud Branding 70

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

What Data To Look At When You’re In Series A Investment [26:02]. The Tension Between Sales And Marketing Needs To Exist [33:38]. There Is No Optimal Deal Size Or Customer Segment [35:30]. He invests in early-stage software and infrastructure companies. What Data To Look At When You’re In Series A Of Investment.

Scale 42

Scale SaaS Investment Construction 42

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2018

There are many levers a sales leader or organization may pull to gain scale, accelerate revenue, drive cost savings, or augment sales team structures. Is it more important to save a few dollars on a subpar partner or invest in a specialized team that possesses the expertise in a particular channel? Go To Market Strategy ).

Outsourcing Services 57

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Sales Outsourcing Outsourced Development 57

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. The 4 types of subscription businesses.

Subscription 72

Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 72

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

It just doesn’t work as a metaphor anymore to describe how people really buy and describe how modern organizations really scale. It’s got to scale on the back end. Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. We’re trying to solve for that return on investment.

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

Enablers have a lot of authority in the sales decision and seek services that can improve insights and scale operations. Business users tend to make individual decisions, and when they come on board they have a small footprint so there must be some strategy for how to scale these buys. How does the persona buy? .

Scale 255

Scale Enterprise Finance Travel 255

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a CCO, the first thing you need to do before presenting your case of budget for customer success in front of the CFO is to look at numerous factors that contribute to customer success investment. The other necessity is an investment in professional education and certifications for upskilling professionals in their fields of expertise.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Sales Hiring Technical Review Scale 10

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. The 4 types of subscription businesses.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 40

SmartKarrot

MAY 4, 2021

In this article, we will talk about high-touch CS and how automation can scale success. Customers are more aware, engaged and invested. For a mid-market segment, a mid-touch just in time strategy would suffice. For an SMB segment, automated tech-strategy is the key to proceed. What is High-touch Customer Success?

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Customer Success Technical Review SMB Onboarding 11

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

As always, you’ll hear real stories/strategies/tactics from real revenue operators spanning: sales, marketing, customer success, operations/enablement, product and hiring. Whether you’re trying to scale your business or scale your career – you’re in the right spot to learn from the best of the best.

Scale 67

Scale VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Enterprise 67

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The goal of product-led growth flywheel is to improve the customer experience by enhancing the product itself instead of investing heavily in sales or marketing. As your company grows, you can scale up to a sales-assisted or even top-down funnel to keep up with the evolving needs of your most active users. Scalable costs.

Scale 105

Scale Technical Review Acquisition Sales Funnel 105

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

I know IBM is a large organization, and honestly, from the perspective of a company like Intercom, just thinking about the scale and everything that goes on there is almost daunting from the outside. We also look at the competitive landscape and see how they’re responding to market opportunities with experience. Fergal: Awesome.

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AI Search AI Scale Machine Learning 245

SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

Typically, a buyer persona represents a market segment as a whole. If done right, they can be worthy of the investment of time and money. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo. There is frequently a fifth stage known as loyalty or advocacy. Buyer personas.

Scale 10

Scale Sales Recruiting B2B Healthcare 10