SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Straight from a SaaS CCO with Yellow.ai’s CCO with Shekar Murthy, Chief Customer Officer at Yellow.ai with Yamini Jain, Co-founder at Global roots inc How to manage a SAAS startup effectively? with Dumindu Tennakoon, General Manager at appiGo International Pvt Ltd How to achieve more with OKRs?

VP of Engineering 293

VP of Engineering Technical Cofounder Outsourcing Services CTO Coach 293

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2022

This happens with some regularity in SaaS, I’ve learned (and to be clear: I’m not talking about any company I’ve invested in, am an advisor to, board member of, etc – Because when it’s still a very small team, with no true management team … co-founders can kind of hack it to $1m-$2m in ARR together.

Sales Recruiting 274

Sales Recruiting Technical Cofounder Scale Investment 274

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She’s a sales leader with an accomplished background at several tech startups. Jo-Anne Jaspen i s a passionate growth strategist, B2B revenue leader, mentor, and startup advisor. Her coaching and training is centered around a simple idea: successful sales is based on 3 building blocks: authenticity, transparency and curiosity.

Sales Recruiting 111

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring 111

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

To investigate, Ryan Law, former CMO and cofounder of Cobloom, performed an analysis of six recent churn reports or studies and found that there is no consensus on the average churn rate for SaaS companies. On a high level, a churn analysis is simply analyzing the rate at which you are losing customers. But is this purely anecdotal?

Benchmarks 147

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 147

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

How long is a startup a startup? It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.”

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Again, I am a big believer in the power of customer storytelling for helping sales outcomes. Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. Nikki Ivey.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137