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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. A deep dive on selling to SMBs and more from SaaStr Europa.

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5 Interesting Learnings from HubSpot at $2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. Pricing is up a modest but material 6% on a constant currency basis, and 3% on an as-reported basis, from a year ago. #3. 23% Customer Count Growth Leads to 30% Revenue Growth, but NRR dips to 104% HubSpot is still very much SMB, especially the “M” of SMB.

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30+ Tough Learnings from Losing a Top Customer

SaaStr

Another top mistake SMB folks make trying to sell enterprise. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing. Your key champion might buy just 1 or 2 new products a year.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. In my past roles at ACORN, GitLab, whenever I started as a head of growth, one of the data points I will look into is what's the percentage of new users coming back the second day or coming back second month?

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