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AI is On Fire. But Will There Be Enough Decacorn Exits?

SaaStr

What Separates Future Decacorns The companies that will break through the $10 billion barrier share specific characteristics that go far beyond traditional SaaS metrics: Scale Requirement s True decacorn candidates operate with 500-2000+ employees and demonstrate the ability to scale operations across multiple geographies and market segments.

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The Top 10 Strategies Toast’s CRO Uses to Crush Quotas

SaaStr

This approach leverages the density of restaurants in urban areas, allowing for face-to-face interactions which play a significant role in their sales process. Strategic Segmentation by Restaurant Density Rather than segmenting purely by revenue opportunity, Toast takes a unique approach by considering restaurant density.

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Quantifying the Financial Impact of Post-Sales Services: Elevating Customer Success to the Next Level of Decision-Making

Valuize Consulting

However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments. These operational metrics remain critical for measuring the success and health of post-sales programs but focus on results after initiatives are implemented.

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Olo vs Toast: $2B vs $25B – The Strategic Tale of Two Tech Giants

SaaStr

Olo’s “fewer but bigger” customers represent a smaller percentage of the total addressable market but generated superior unit economics – until Toast’s scale advantages kicked in. Toast sacrificed early market share for market size optimization and is now leveraging scale to move upmarket.

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5 Interesting Learnings from BigCommerce at $180,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably #2 to Shopify. It’s much smaller than Shopify, at $170m ARR vs $3B+ ARR, but it’s still plenty big for us to learn a lot from this big but not #1 player in the market.

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Answering Readers' Questions about the Free Trial Survey

Tom Tunguz

Jonathan asked: Can you share trial length by market segment? This may be due a perception that enterprise buyers navigate longer and more complex decision-making process. And can you show payment collected by ARR? The popularity of requiring payment is constant across ARR buckets. This was a good intuition.

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Outbound Sales Science: How Growlabs Went From $0 to $2.5M ARR in 6 Months

Sales Hacker

Wanna know the secret sauce behind a scalable outbound process that leads to significant growth? Market Segmentation combined with tailored messaging. Identify your most attractive markets via market segmentation. Establish a clear, value based hypotheses that will guide the segmentation.

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