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The 3 Secret Ingredients for Scaling to $100M ARR with Bitly CEO and CPO

SaaStr

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. Bitly began in 2008, right around the time that other link-shortening companies were starting.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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The 16 signs, symptoms and causes of customer churn in SaaS

ChurnZero

In this case, looking at retention by customer count may overlook revenue loss for those businesses with tiered subscription levels. Customer success teams need to be on the lookout for the signs and symptoms of churnand then act quickly to diagnose a potential issue. Often, it develops slowly over time.

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21 Ways to Market for Growth in This Recession

OpenView Labs

Develop subscription models. Some industries have used subscription models for decades. Software has substantially moved from an upfront sale to a subscription model over the past 10 years and other industries that are now following include razor blades, automobiles, food (community supported agriculture) and hardware.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE.