OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. Short on time?

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Retention. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. What is a pricing audit? Acquisition.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Those that do often gain insights into the needs of their customers, which ultimately translate into an improved product experience for users, higher activation and greater retention. They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams.

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

In this article, we’ll discuss customer attrition in depth and discuss the strategies you can use to reduce churn and increase customer retention and loyalty. TL;DR Customer attrition, also known as customer churn , takes place when customers leave your product or service. moment and experience your product’s value.

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User Pilot

MARCH 11, 2024

Let’s look at the most common scenarios where Mixpanel is NOT the right tool for your user onboarding needs and you should be looking into using a different one: You need better customer support : Mixpanel has been criticized for its poor customer service. Set up your metrics to measure growth and retention.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Basically you can more easily start using products. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? They love SaaS products. They love consuming SaaS products not because of the billing model, but because of the delivery model. It’s also a perception of risk.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe net retention must always be the guiding North Star? Loving our podcast content?

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) is the monitoring, gathering, and analyzing of user actions and data using monitoring systems, allowing you to acquire useful insights into your users’ desires, concerns, and challenges.It Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. In this article, we detail what a product launch marketing plan is, why you need one, and how to create a successful product marketing from the start. Let’s begin!

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Enhancing revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

This post will help you wrap your head around the main concepts in product analytics, and how to implement them to grow your product! Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics? It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. Why is Product Analytics important?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. What this number means is across all industries, 94% of businesses today use at least one cloud solution.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. The entrepreneur in me, though, wanted to make more money than I could make on the market. Our team met with David just a few days after our initial conversation in San Francisco.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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