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SaaS Playbook: Learning from the Practitioners and Building a Community

Rachit Parekh · SeedToScale (Accel India) Free Intermediate India

The index into Accel's masterclass series, with each playbook attached to the operator who ran it (Freshworks on marketing, MindTickle on sales, Chargebee on sales ops). When your own channel stalls, this is the fastest way to find an Indian operator who has already hit that wall.

  • Five practitioner-led tracks: marketing (Freshworks), sales (Mohit, MindTickle/Oloid), sales-ops and team (Chargebee), product (CleverTap).
  • The recurring questions it was built to answer: when to hire a US or Europe sales leader, which early marketing metrics matter, and how to hold one culture across borders.
  • The design principle was peers at the same stage learning from operators, not from investors.

The question it answers

  1. Inbound has dried up. Leads are down two quarters running and nobody knows why. What do I do?

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