OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. I’m sure many of you use New Relic.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In short, we observe that Head, Director & VP of Growth titles are becoming more abundant, as are consultants around growth hacking but the "growth hacker" title is fading away. Customer data is scattered everywhere.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. So I was their first employee in the United States.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But after a stint as a consultant I came out to Stanford back in the late ’90s in the dot-com era. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. At least, just that one month during the funding process. Nondisclosure of loans and repayments of founder “debts” from proceeds, and/or other unusual payments to founders or other execs.

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