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The Fall of the Metric Monolith with Battery Ventures Principal Brandon Gleklen (Video)

SaaStr

Metrics are the key to evaluating success and setting goals, but not every SaaS business should orient itself around the same one-size-fits-all numbers. This flexible mindset creates just the right conditions for embracing evolving business models and new metrics. The Metric Monolith: The Rise and Fall.

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9 Things Founders Should Know About Getting Acquired with Brett Goldstein, Former M&A at Google

SaaStr

You have to be able to pass a technical review, do or build what you said you would, and pass diligence on usage and revenue. 2 Hit Your Metrics Another thing is milestones. Hit your metrics. People lie about usage and revenue, which leads to a failed acquisition. #2 You won’t get a full payout unless you do.

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How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund

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2023 has been a difficult year for many tech companies. In a special workshop, Sam shares advice on how to spot bottlenecks, reallocate the right resources, and grow revenue in 2023. In a special workshop, Sam shares advice on how to spot bottlenecks, reallocate the right resources, and grow revenue in 2023. Sign up for free.

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Mailchimp’s ex-Head of Data Platform: “Data Doesn’t Have to be Hard — Three Data Myths and How to Bust Them”

SaaStr

Data Doesn’t Have to be Hard: Three Data Myths and How to Bust Them with Mailchimp with John Humphrey, former Head of Data Platform Product at Mailchimp John Humphrey, former head of data platform product at MailChimp and current principal at mfact, joined SaaStr live at Workshop Wednesday to discuss three data myths and how to debunk them.

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10 Learnings on High-Velocity Sales to SMB with Gorgias CEO and VP of Sales

SaaStr

In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. The “Internal Review” stage means that a meeting has occurred.

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500,000+ Tuned into Our Digital Events in 2020. Here Were The Top 10 Sessions.

SaaStr

Things start off looking bleak, with SaaStr Annual 2020 the first big tech event to be postponed due to Covid. And then we all plunged into what looked like a big tech recession — at first. We again had almost 100 roundtables and workshops, and had the CEOs of Okta and Airtable join dozens of CROs, CMOs, CCOs and more.

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Top 20 Business Challenges for Customer Success and Resources to Help

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Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) has a library of 751 business challenges, which represent specific issues about which members go to seek assistance, guidance, or direction on. Each inquiry, advisory engagement, and workshop that they conducted, was tagged to a corresponding business challenge. Efficient Sales Models.