SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2025

Companies can meet stringent quality requirements at a fraction of the cost of in-house teams, while accelerating their AI initiatives. Why It Matters : Customer support teams are drowning in tickets, with resolution times getting longer, not shorter. Why It Matters : Business users waste hours navigating complex SaaS UIs.

AI Search 170

AI Search AI Startup Scale 170

User Pilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

What does customer satisfaction look like for SaaS businesses? Unlike traditional businesses, most SaaS businesses operate the subscription pricing model. As a result, satisfying customers is key to any success in SaaS. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market.

Business 111

Business Underperforming Technical Team Customer Lifetime Value Systems Review 111

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

What’s the secret to SaaS success at YCombinator? Sam : We’re going to talk today about a lot of topics, but the general theme is, what’s the difference between good and great SaaS companies? The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Getting the team right is so key here.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 286

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers act, think, and behave differently than your average customer. As an API-first company, WorkOS focuses on selling primarily to developers. Doing Business with Developers. Developers haven’t typically been the buyers in enterprise software, so why should you build for developers?

Outsourced Development 207

Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Development Part-Time VPE 207

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . The ultimate goal is retention, not activation.

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Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

User Pilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Onboarding 105

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

It got a lot of engagement from the SaaS veterans out there, so I thought it would be worth digging in more on each point: Regrets are different than mistakes. So what’s my list of SaaS regrets? The best ones are always accretive in SaaS. What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In? #4. It Compounds.

Sales Hiring 230

Sales Hiring Venture Capital Scale SaaS 230

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion. G2 rating : 4.8

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Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

Data 105

Data Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Technical Review 105

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2024

He previously built the pre and post sales solutions team at mParticle from zero to supporting hundreds of enterprise customers. Is there a lot of internal or customer work that needs to be done or managed by your team? As the lens of efficiency is further applied in SaaS, Customer Success is coming under greater scrutiny.

Underperforming Technical Team 120

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring Scale 120

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management teams must determine how to thrive in a downturn to position their businesses for profitable growth. However, management teams that pursued growth at all costs were punished severely. For companies in B2B SaaS, it also means understanding to whom they’re selling. Strategy to win. Go to market. Key takeaways.

Consulting 49

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Management Marketing 49

BetterCloud

JANUARY 15, 2025

With both high complexity and large volume, data within SaaS apps can be difficult to protect. This is why security teams require SaaS security assessments. Get answers to these 7 key InfoSec questions when buying your next SaaS app. A rogue actor can penetrate a SaaS app using an outdated or insecure integration.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 52

Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

There are some important variations to MRR that would be good for your sales team to be aware of, including new MRR, expansion MRR, and churn MRR. MRR is an important metric for SaaS businesses to track to understand business health. Talk to sales What is Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)?

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Payments SaaS Payments Revenue Payment Services 88

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. The second constituent there is the developer.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Self-service sales model This is when customers explore and experience your product independently without needing hands-on help from your sales team. Heres a breakdown of each: 1.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Startup Sales Recruiting 52

Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

What Is Churn Rate and How Does It Relate to Customer Retention? Churn and retention are flip sides of the same coin so that you can reduce one by raising the other. Retention rate represents how many of the same group of customers you kept over the same time frame. Poor Customer Fit.

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Churn Retention Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 94

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

It’s a simple reality that a proportion of customers who sign up to your SaaS should never have done so in the first place. Here’s a guide on boosting your customer retention rates through the use of positive habit creating techniques. Some clients are destined to churn. This is not a failure on your part.

Retention 114

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Churn Acquisition 114

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. We will share 8 ideas on how to increase your sales team’s productivity and help them close more deals. See below!

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . According to Mark, customer retention is a far better indicator of success: . Mark Roberge knows which he prefers. Next comes go-to-market fit.

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Scale Scaling Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 226

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. and finally figure out how much that SaaS sales salary should be. In the end, a bonus section is waiting for you!

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 215

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Looking for some great customer retention survey questions to include in your feedback form? Customer retention surveys are the lens through which you can see how people are feeling about your brand. The goal is to get valuable insights into customers’ needs and use this information to improve retention. Look no further!

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Retention Scale Underperforming Technical Team Churn 98

How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

The SaaS landscape is rapidly embracing generative AI. Why SaaS Builders Should Care LLM orchestration delivers clear business value to SaaS teams. Users see richer, context-aware features (like smarter chatbots or code assistants) that boost satisfaction and retention.

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Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Scale 53

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

What can we do to improve retention? But first, in order to improve retention, we first have to be able to measure it. These are the three retention measurements I usually start with: The “How would you feel if…?” strong acquisition and retention) almost always exceeded that threshold. Why are customers canceling?

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Customer lifetime value. Customer acquisition cost.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

User Pilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When your company adopts multiple SaaS solutions to drive productivity, you unknowingly create a perfect storm for data fragmentation. Let’s explore how this silent threat impacts SaaS businesses and what you can do to combat it. It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. Sound familiar?

Data 105

Data Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review Technical Review 105

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business?

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

User Pilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. This analysis isn’t exclusive to SaaS; the principle applies when analyzing physical attributes for hardware products. Increase user retention. Extract feature development insights. We cover: Types of product features.

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review User Experience Retention 105

User Pilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. This guide explores 15 practical strategies you can adopt when scaling your SaaS business. TL;DR Scaling SaaS refers to the capacity of a business to grow without compromising performance and quality. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

Scale 105

Scale Scaling SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 105

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

In fact, it’s almost impossible to get a really good understanding of a service’s usage without looking at activity and retention numbers on a cohort-by-cohort basis. More than ten years later, cohort analyses have become an essential part of most SaaS companies’ toolkits. Should I look at churn or retention cohorts?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 128

User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of product analysis is to better understand its strengths and weaknesses, to evaluate how effective it is at satisfying user needs , and to identify areas for improvement. Product analysis benefits teams from across the organization, including your product , marketing , customer success , and UX design colleagues.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Onboarding Retention 98

Incredo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Do you know what role your SaaS product reviews can play in your business success? The truth is – product reviews can help you in a number of ways and even be crucial in your sales process. Bad reviews point out to your weaknesses, helping you better your customer support, product, onboarding, whatever issue they address.

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Software Review Systems Review Software Social Media 37

User Pilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. Feature ideation is the process of brainstorming new feature ideas to add to your SaaS product.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale User Experience Interviewing 105

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2019

A poor onboarding experience can lead to refunds or cancellations that you can’t afford. Are they power users experienced with a wide variety of SaaS products and applications, or are they brand new to your kind of tool? The solution is to treat onboarding as a product itself, a constant concern for a single team.

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Onboarding Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 199