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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

The KPI Alignment System Have customers email explicit performance expectations Build custom reporting dashboards Weekly cross-team optimization meetings Formal performance reviews 2. The Education Ecosystem Attentive University Platform certification program “Texts We Love” showcase Industry-standard guides (e.g.,

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The Compound Startup Advantage: Why The CEO of Rippling Believes Focus Is Overrated

SaaStr

Conrad personally runs payroll for Rippling’s 2,000 employees across a dozen countries as a “part-time job,” while UK companies with even small teams often spend 5-6 days monthly just managing payroll. His rationale: Training capacity : Sales teams can only absorb so much product knowledge. The proof of effectiveness?

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CRO Confidential: Why Your Startup Needs A Rev Ops Leader With Cherishma Shah, Senior VP Of GTM Strategy, Operations, and Enablement at Guild Education (Pod 648 + Video)

SaaStr

A bad experience with a revenue operations leader might taint your view of the position at all future companies, but that would be a mistake, as CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond learned first-hand. These leaders act as partners and build out a strong team. Not every leader is created equally.

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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)

SaaStr

As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success. If you don’t work to keep your knowledge of the market fresh and current, you may be left with a narrow view that will inevitably catch your sales and product teams flat-footed. Verify product-user fit.

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Four ways customer education helps support the Customer Success team

ChurnZero

Every Customer Success team focuses on keeping customers engaged and ultimately, preventing churn. Customer education was designed with CSMs in mind to automate their repetitive processes and create a way for customers to self-serve their basic needs so that CSMs can do their jobs better. How CSMs play a role in customer education.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

Like when when you’re with pricing, do you find that part of that emotional kind of like walking people through the sales process is educating them on what the pricing should be to people come loaded with a lot of maybe misconceptions around how the process works? And people need to be educated as to that. We’re doing $2.5

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