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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You go from the leanest organization and very small SMB, to closing seven figure TCVLs for enterprise. What we’ve realized is, doing a product for SMB is fairly simple, and you’ll see in the graph, that’s why we grew so much in the beginning. Doing a product for SMB is fairly simple. Tiago Paiva: Oh yeah.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

For SaaS businesses that target smaller SMB customer segments, gross retention is typically in the mid to low 80’s with net expansion in the ~105% range. ” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

You’re advising more than 50 companies right now. There’s a handful of companies I advise where it’s transactional: it’s order taking. A lot of the companies I advise are selling to mid-market and above, and that’s where my value is. A lot of my advising is actually around hiring.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I was the second employee at the time, the first one in a non-technical role. So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. Like really advise you to read Crossing The Chasm because it’s a paradigm shift. Our target audience is technical. Again, we sell to a technical audience. Stages of growth.

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6 Best Accounting Apps for Small Businesses

Stax

It’s intentionally created to be very friendly for SMB users, featuring robust invoicing and time tracking features. Sage One automates small and technical accounting tasks, saving you time. A consultation with a financial advisor or accountant is advisable to determine your business’s specific needs.

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Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms 2021: Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps

BetterCloud

Gartner strongly advises to avoid the status quo of productivity sapping “death by tabs.” This will lead to a proliferation of these administrative interfaces and repeat tasks, further burdening IT administrators who already spend too much time on technical tasks that do not directly add business value and should be handled autonomously.”.

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Managing Your Facility and Tools to Automate the Process

Andreessen Horowitz

According to Setpoint, they currently manage in excess of $18 billion in debt facilities and annual transactions across asset-backed securities (ABS) and asset-based lending (ABL) asset classes, including consumer loans, residential mortgages and properties, SMB, factoring, supply chain finance, and equipment finance.