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Top 10 Unexpected Learnings from Scaling Wiz From $0 to The First $100M ARR with founding CRO Colin Jones and Sam Blond

SaaStr

It’s an incredible look back on scaling and more: Colin Jones, first Chief Revenue Officer at Wiz. ” This unexpected dynamic completely inverted their growth bottleneck – the constraint wasn’t generating demand or securing funding, but scaling the sales team fast enough to capture the overwhelming market opportunity.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Asana at $750,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

This isn’t unqiue to Asana, it’s true of many SaaS leaders at scale, from Zoom to Shopify. NRR Trending Slightly Back Up There’s a general consensus that the B2B segments that saw a downturn the past 2 years saw that downturn end in Q3’24. And probably be worth 50% more. #2. 150,000 Total Customers.

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Every Top Founder Ever: “I Should Have Acted on Bad Trends Earlier”

SaaStr

Still, one of the top mistakes every top founder says is this: “I Should Have Acted on Bad Trends Earlier.” Almost every founder regrets using capital to keep a high-burn rate engine going that isn’t scaling rapidly. #2. ” Let’s make a list: #1. Will marketers really buy your product if sales execs do?

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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

Here are the trends across the group of 13 publicly traded software & infrastructure companies (which are the fastest growers or most-highly valued) over the last 5 quarters. Then the company enters a period of hyper growth during which it scales rapidly, approximately 50-60% annually. I wonder what trends we’ll see in 2033.

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Top Fraud and Payment Trends for 2023: What SaaS Pros Need to Know

In the report, you’ll find: The scale and type of fraud seen in the global marketplace. This report outlines the most common types of fraud to look out for in 2023 and offers merchant-reported preferred best practices to help minimize fraud losses. How fraud changes based on the size of business.

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The $10M to $1B Vertical SaaS Playbook: Key Lessons from Procore’s Chief Product Officer Wyatt Jenkins

SaaStr

Meet Wyatt Jenkins: From Construction Sites to Chief Product Officer If you want to understand how vertical SaaS companies scale to $1B+ in revenue while staying true to their customers, there’s no better person to learn from than Wyatt Jenkins, Chief Product Officer at Procore Technologies.

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AI is Already Remaking SaaS. 10 Trends To Watch Right Now. And Not Fall Behind On.

SaaStr

This is a big deal for scaling companiesit means you can deliver more value at a lower cost, which is a competitive advantage. And how the CEOs of Monday, HubSpot, Rippling and more scale. AI is also transforming the economics of SaaS. It knows 10+ years of SaaStr content. Not just mine. And how they think.

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Demystifying Consumption-Based Pricing: Modeling & the Path to Business Success

With insights on maximizing customer relationships and scaling for the future, this report is packed with actionable strategies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market. Don’t miss out on the key trends shaping tomorrow’s biggest growth opportunities.

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Crafting Tomorrow: A to Z of Delighting Customers with Your Product

Master the Product Life Cycle: Identify problems, build solutions, launch, scale, and optimize with confidence. Overcome Product Challenges: Dive deep into customer needs, market trends, technology, quality, and compliance.

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Preparing for SaaS Funding: Evaluating your Funding Options

Speaker: Jon Steinberg, Co-founder of Mountside Ventures, and Clayton Whitfield, Co-Founder and SVP of Revenue Programs at SaaSOptics

Whether you fall into the category of “non-VC compatible,” or just prefer a more non-dilutive option, understanding what alternatives there are and how to evaluate them based on your business and operational goals will pave the way to a successful financing outcome that’ll help scale your business.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.