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How going the extra mile to understand customers propelled Squire into a $750m SaaS company 

ChurnZero

In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops. On the other hand, owning a barbershop would serve as a customer research and development (R&D) laboratory. On the one hand, the investment tied up Squire’s cash and put the company at risk of failing. Watch it in full here.

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Start-Ups VS Enterprise: Which Sales Team Should You Work for? (Infographic)

Sales Hacker

They also have well-developed workflows for lead-processing and drafting and revising of contracts. Start-ups often develop informal workflows from “scratch.” ADP, a large organization that sells payroll and human resource services, for example, is well known for its rigorous, mandatory weekly sales meetings.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Enterprise Client

SmartKarrot

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . It is challenging and labor-intensive to develop a product that meets all the requirements of an enterprise organization.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. A missed clause in a contract can mean the difference between a healthy profit and a client losing millions of dollars. A “dropped ball” in the legal profession can have major consequences. Again, this was 2007.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. from MDI Ventures, Innosight Ventures, and others. Funding to Date : $1.3M Southern China.