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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

Tips: to manage OKRs, and KPIs with ease with Kashinath Kadaba Shrish, Cofounder & CTO at Fitbots Leveraging new age AI technologies(GPT and NLP) to increase Organic Traffic using Scalenut with Saurabh Wadhawan, CoFounder at Scalenut What are the best marketing channels for SaaS B2B businesses?

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

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. Combined with annual prepay contracts, negative churn is a very powerful growth mechanism,” Tomasz writes.

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

The Founder isn’t willing to be the first salesperson Many of the best founders we work with don’t have a sales background and are either product or engineering focused. The first sales hire needs to do all of the selling, build the playbook, and (probably) act as a Sales Development Representative doing cold outbound prospecting.

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SaaStr Podcast #358 with Tipalti Founder & CEO Chen Amit

SaaStr

To date, Chen has raised over $146M with Tipalti from the likes of Oren Zeev, Dan Rose, Mike Chalfen and then Greenspring, Truebridge and 01 Advisors to name a few. I was living in the Bay area at that time, moved back to Israel and then did some hobbies and ran some of my ideas, at some point in time called Oren, my cofounder in Tipalti.

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SaaStr Podcast #364 with Figma Head of Sales Kyle Parrish

SaaStr

Does Kyle agree that it has to be the founder who develops the sales playbook? I started seeing some people from Dropbox go to be founding engineers over at Figma, the collaborative space design, still working in desktop apps. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles. What is the balance?

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Incubating a Company Inside GTMfund: Operator.ai and a New Era in Sales Tech

Sales Hacker

Adam is a master of building 0-1 and an incredible product and design leader, having cofounded Monospace and most recently served as a founding member of the Amazon Explore team. The Co-Founders brought in an insanely talented team: Pleasant Middelhof , (COO), Jeremy Jonas (CTO), and Carl Gunderson (Software Engineer).