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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Are customers churning?

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5 Effective Things We Did to Move Upmarket and Built Pipeline with Mapistry (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lots of us fantasize about moving upmarket, but are unsure of how to get started, is it just a matter of hiring a team of SDRs and getting them to hit the phones? You don’t want to fall into a trap of building all this custom stuff, I think you guys all know why that’s a bad idea.

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The Agile Arrow – a visual framework for managing complex sales deals

Intercom, Inc.

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

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Navigating Your SaaS Transition: 5 Insights From Stardock’s Experience With FastSpring

FastSpring

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. Prepare for renewals with value adds to reduce churn. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site.

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How to Scale SaaS Growth and Optimize SaaS Operations: 7 Essential Tips

Stax

This is what SaaS applications call “user churn,” and it can affect their monthly recurring revenue (MRR) , as well as their annual recurring revenue (ARR). Churn rate. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Customer lifetime value.

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What is Revenue Leakage? How To Keep Revenue Locked?

Subscription Flow

Operational Weaknesses The biggest cause of revenue leakage is the operational inefficiencies which occur behind transaction processes. Manual weaknesses can entail something as basic as putting an incorrect total amount on a customer’s invoice. Payment Declines Payment failures lead to inevitable customer churn.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. I mean, sorry, we’re already there, but I don’t know if it’ll be there on mass or if this is just a small trend, it’ll depend on how bad the market gets.