SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 264

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 15, 2021

During one of our BIG RYG Hyper-Workshops on budgeting for Customer Success headcount, Kristen Hayer of The Success League, framed this shift by explaining that as a CS leader, you’re not running a happiness team, you’re running a revenue team. Your team will start to get pushed on the money side of things.

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Customer Success Benchmarks Scale Underperforming Technical Team 97

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

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Scale Branding Underperforming Technical Team Enterprise 190

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 113

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. A year earlier we’d launched the MVP of the model allowing SMB customers to input a credit card to get access to the platform, but we hadn’t had a chance to dedicate time or resources to optimizing a proper SaaS onboarding funnel. At 19.20%, we were dramatically off-base.

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Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Benchmarks across the PLG user journey The hardest part of PLG might actually be… marketing?! We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. To make things easier, you can use this board deck template that my team and I developed with Quaestor. Forget about Threads.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

That’s why I think the best way to define an enterprise deal is actually not by any particular “benchmark” but by its level of complexity and the mindset required to execute it. SMB vs. Enterprise vs. Mid-Market. The SMB Deal. The SMB deal boils down to “you build it, they buy it.”. The Enterprise Deal.

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