Renewals

topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes

Innovators & Investors the Official SaaStr Podcast Top Founders 20VC

7 statements about Renewals, every show

Cole: NPS correlated with renewals remains the gold standard SaaS metric
“I think that the sort of gold standard at this point is your net promoter score and looking at how you're doing in that and then correlating that to renewals. And if you have a nine, then you're this likely to renew. And if you have an eight, you're like this …”
Michelle Cole Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 12:27 24 - Inside a Hands-On Venture Studio with Paragraph Partner Michelle Cole
Jacobs: SaaS renewals must follow structured qualification methodologies like pre-sale pipeline
“We need the same kind of methodology for renewals. When we're committing a deal for renewal, it can't just be, I think they're going to renew. It has to be against a specific methodology in exactly the same way we would expect the pipeline pre-sale”
Sam Jacobs Aug 6, 2024 ▶ 19:36 How Pavilion Hit $10m in Revenue While Balancing Investor and Customer Demands with CEO Sam Jacobs
20VC Insight
Fiechtner: Moving the needle on SaaS renewals requires 3-6 months lead time
“We found we need roughly three to six months to move the needle significantly on a renewal on either retention, churn, or upsell.”
Ben Fiechtner Aug 2, 2024 ▶ 19:10 Ben Fiechtner: 12-Week Step-by-Step Framework to Crush Every Sales Quarter | E1185 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
SAASTR Insight
Lemkin: SaaS products that cannot self-renew 80% of deals are failing
“I think if you have humans in a renewal, you're you have failed your customers. You have failed your customers. If you need sales or success or account, it doesn't mean that the margin, you don't need help. I'm not saying you don't need to parachute in on 10% …”
Jason Lemkin Dec 29, 2023 ▶ 25:40 Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales & Marketing Has Changed with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
SAASTR Insight
Box CRO: Tracking renewals 12-18 months out helps save at-risk accounts
“We're now talking about renewals that are 12 and 18 months out, and that's a very healthy place to be in because with that kind of a window, if you have an account that's maybe at risk, then you have enough time that you can affect some change in that account.”
Mark Wayland Jan 4, 2022 ▶ 37:39 Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box's CRO Mark Wayland and SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
SAASTR Insight
Willey: Requests for short contract extensions usually signal intent to churn
“Typically if customers are looking for something like that, it tends to mean that they're interested in moving off or moving to something else.”
Tim Willey Jan 14, 2021 ▶ 20:45 10 Rules for Defining Churn with ForgeRock and Solarwinds | SaaStr Software Community
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Renewals now account for 50% of Awareness Technologies' revenue
“We saw an opportunity to change that model, which we did, and very, you know, very quickly, and now renewals makes up, you know, at, you know, 50% of the revenue”
Brad Miller Apr 24, 2020 ▶ 7:54 1735 Smarter to Buy vs Build, He bought Company for $10m, Now doing $20m in ARR 3 years later

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