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How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

SaaStr

Having led sales teams of 500+ at BILL and 800+ at HubSpot, Michelle has unique insights into what makes great frontline managers and why investing in them is crucial for sustainable growth. “Some teams consistently sold more enterprise SKUs, others had high volume but low ACV. Shaping and maintaining company culture.

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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

SaaStr

A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects. You assembled a talented team, built an amazing product, and established a growing SaaS business. Mix in the classic conflict between sales and marketing teams, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

SaaStr

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. The team comes from MongoDB and Elastic, bringing deep search expertise.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

In part one, we cover benchmarks and common churn formulas. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks Part II: 5 Proven Strategies for Reducing SaaS Churn Part III: Churn Definitions and Additional Resources. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. When we set churn benchmarks for SaaS companies, there’s so much to consider.

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Core Feature Adoption Rate: Benchmark Report 2024

User Pilot

That’s the average core feature activation rate across the companies we studied for our Product Metrics Benchmark Report 2024. Companies by industry analyzed in our Product Metrics Benchmark Report 2024. Check out our Product Metrics Benchmark Report 2024. Core feature adoption data can also guide product development.

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Make better decisions faster: The 6 stages of quick, effective decision-making

Intercom, Inc.

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . What would a better option look like? Stage 6: Review the decision.