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Scaling a B2B SaaS business to create remarkable leverage Scaling a SaaS business: It's a mindset

“One thing that SaaS startups need to think about more is how to get leverage. But, unfortunately, most companies focus on throwing people at the problem and not getting more leverage.” It’s a quote from Auren Hoffman, CEO of SafeGraph. Just think about it. You’re growing but actually slowing down your business. That’s not what your target customers want, not what your employees want, and not what you want. As they say: it doesn’t scale. So how to go about it? How do you scale a B2B SaaS business? That’s what I aim to answer in this blog. […]

Designing your SaaS business to create predictable traction. A three layer approach to reliably grow SaaS product traction / market traction

Getting traction is challenging in various stages of your business. Keeping it and making it predictable is even more challenging.
It’s not only essential that traction starts (which is hard enough). It’s even more important that it grows and never stops doing so. Unfortunately, the latter part is where most SaaS companies suffer. […]

The ultimate guide to tuning your B2B SaaS Segmentation Leveraging Segmentation to impact every metric of your SaaS business

A question I often get is: How do you segment a market in B2B SaaS? The answer is in narrowing down – getting laser-specific across five layers. The magic is not in picking ‘the right layer’ but in how you blend them as a cocktail. […]

How to turn a market downturn into your tailwind in SaaS What can we do different to grow resilience in periods of crisis?

A market downturn always results in a shock effect – whether it’s the recent COVID pandemic, an economic crisis (like we’ve seen in 2008), or a regional (or global) conflict (such as the effects of what’s happening today in Ukraine). And that results in an unpredictable reaction that can last for months, even years.

And although the analysts are often not in agreement about the answers – one thing they agree about is: Crisis brings opportunity. And that opportunity is hidden in the changing priorities. What used to sell well up to yesterday, not necessarily sells today anymore. This is about the perception of value. Something that was mission-critical yesterday can become a nice to have today – and vice versa. So it’s not that everything ‘locks’ (at least not for long) – investment priorities shift. And that’s the opportunity to not only meet your forecasts but to exceed them. […]

What’s stopping B2B SaaS companies from growing traction?

In this blog, I am going to dig deeper into some of the underlying factors that have a leverage effect on helping to create ‘enough’ traction and beat the benchmarks. […]

#200 – The best advice from B2B SaaS CEOs across 200 podcast episodes 22 Tech-Entrepreneurs-on-a-Mission sharing their do's and don'ts to build a remarkable SaaS business

A hand-picked selection of quotes from 22 B2B SaaS CEOs across the 200 episodes that have featured between the 1st of January 2018 and today. […]

What are the 3 levers for growth you bet on in 2022?

Over the past months, I’ve had numerous conversations with tech-entrepreneurs on the topic of leverage. So let me highlight one critical question:
“My VCs asked me: ‘If we’d invest €4 million in your business – where would you focus this money to deliver the biggest multiplier?’ […]

The challenge to break through that invisible growth ceiling

It’s the time of year where we reflect and look back. Has the ambitious plan you betted on at the […]

“Are we creating enough traction fast enough…?”

That constant itch for any B2B startup: Are we creating enough traction or not In 2 weeks the year is […]

Struggling to get your SaaS gross-margins to top 70%?

“Optimizing your costs and expenses is key to building a winning cloud company. In cloud, gross margins measure how effective companies are in delivering their software to customers, and they average 65-70% across company lifetimes.”
Now I completely agree with this – however, I’d like to address an area where I see a lot of SaaS companies negatively impact their margin: The quality of their revenue. […]