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11 Signs To Predict If a Venture Investment Will or Won’t Work Out

SaaStr

5+ cofounders can work (I think of that as too many cooks, but now I see it can work). Some of my best investments had zero revenue the first 2 years or even longer. Cofounder conflict. But now I’ve seen many unicorns make it even with significant cofounder conflict in the early and middle days. It works for Atlassian.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. And we’re excited to share that the SaaStr APAC Braindates platform is now open.

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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. But there are other types of churn you can measure, such as revenue and transactional churn. But is this purely anecdotal?

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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. Double the revenue. A SaaStr Classic!!

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

Last but not least, if your sales tax noncompliance gets too out of hand, dealing with multiple states’ sales tax laws means that 46 state departments of revenue can potentially come after you for back taxes. So even the freshest new SaaS startup celebrating their 50th customer may find themselves dealing with sales tax in multiple states. .

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The 9 Worst Sales Mistakes Founders Should Avoid

Point Nine Land

It helps keep the product team focused on customer feedback and providing value in exchange for revenue. So, ensuring the founder(s) have a finger on the pulse of product-market fit is key to growing revenue, and it also helps make it clear who to hire next and with which sales goals/targets. Which are you?

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These 36 RevOps Leaders Have Something (Great) to Say

Sales Hacker

It’s not all technical. Here are just a few topics that our RevOps leaders talk about in Linkedin posts, articles and podcasts: Revenue acceleration plans. A career in RevOps is a great way to help your career, and have a big impact on revenue. Asia Corbett Director of Revenue Operations, Postal.io. Check it out.

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