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What’s The #1 Challenge After $1m-$2m ARR?

SaaStr

You can’t hack it forever. Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be. You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows).

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How to learn from churn – designing good user offboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Of course, when you’re working in a startup or high-growth SaaS company, the focus is often on maximizing active users and increasing revenue. We hear about all the growth hacks to get new users into your product, and the latest patterns in user onboarding (we’ve even written a book on it ). Build a feedback loop.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Or churn will increase, NPS will stagnate and decline, and upsell and revenue retention will be a fraction of what it could be. You’ll find a way to be decent at some aspect of marketing in the early days on your own (PR, virtality, growth hacking, outbound, cold calling, who knows). Marketing is also an art and science.

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Excel template for cohort analyses in SaaS

The Angel VC

Andrew is a writer and entrepreneur and has written a large number of must-read essays on topics such as viral marketing, growth hacking and monetization. Cohort analyses are also essential if you operate a SaaS business and want to know how you’re doing in terms of churn, customer lifetime and customer lifetime value.

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How to write great onboarding (and other) emails

SaaStock

On this week’s regular episode of the show, Alex chats with Aaron Krall, Founder of the SaaS Accelerator and the SaaS Growth Hacks Facebook Group. Aaron spends his time helping SaaS companies operating a trial to paid model get more traffic, increase conversions and reduce churn.

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Increasing Runway Without Sacrificing Growth with Norwest Venture Partners’ Sean Jacobsohn and Scott Beechuk and Andreessen Horowitz GP Kristina Shen (Pod 605 + Video)

SaaStr

CAC payback factors in all the health indicators of your business: GTM efficiency, ARR growth, churn rates, and gross margin. Unlock non-linear growth by leveraging partnerships. DIY growth hacks to juice your sales. It intentionally excluded R&D costs, understanding that it’s an investment for the future.

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How to Build a GenAI Company for the Enterprise with Synthesia’s CEO

SaaStr

They’re willing to pay to try out the product, but they will likely churn. Every new market has growth hacks. From Inbound to Outbound Synthesia first became a force of nature through word-of-mouth and virality on social media. People wanted to pay for it and were excited, but most of those people are known as AI tourists.