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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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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

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. Trying to Figure It All Out Yourself Without a Sherpa-Guide Okay, so you’re a technical or product founder. This means there needs to be regular engagement from the advisor.

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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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How to Sell Subscriptions: 4 Strategies for SaaS Companies

Chargify

Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. A great example of this strategy being done right is Dropbox’s freemium offering , which allows “users to see how easy it is to back up and share their files using the Dropbox platform,” says Sujan Patel, cofounder of Right Inbox.

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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 said, fundamentally, the founder has to develop the sales playbook before bringing in reps and you can’t expect them to develop it willy-nilly in their own creativity. * Why is it so hard moving from 0-1 in sales? 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).