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When should you hire a CFO?

SaaSHolic

.” Bookkeeping, planning, and modeling are skills and activities that someone in the founding team should perform at a good-enough level. Accounting and payroll should definitely be outsourced. It just so happens that these CEOs typically prioritize pressing operational needs (a sales rep, a developer, etc.),

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

Kellblog

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by following set of beliefs. If the StartFast doesn’t work, it’s not a big deal because the Customer Success team’s mission is to offer free clean-up after failed implementations.

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The Zero-Sum Fallacy: ARR vs. Services

OPEXEngine

Some SaaS startups develop a form of zero-sum delusion early in their evolution, characterized by the following set of beliefs. First, some SaaS companies deliberately run with a low set-up product, little to no services, and a customer success team that takes care of implementation issues. They know how to do this.

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April 28 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Client Success Director (Real Estate) Location: New York, NY, US Organization: REEF As a Client Success Director, you will drive new business applications, working with internal REEF teams to match qualified applications to the real estate network. Oversee process for contract and document execution.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

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Customer Success Metrics: Qualitative vs Quantitative Data

SmartKarrot

Operational efficiency. If you can measure the time taken by each employee in your operations team along with the other parameters that are supporting them, you can take further steps towards enhancing their operational efficiency. Customer experience. Customer Churn rate. Qualitative Metrics.

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

SaaStr

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? So it’s about operational efficiencies, productivity gains, digital experiences and making sure we’ve captured those. This will be built into the product.