Strategy – Fractal River https://www.fractalriver.com We help growth startups scale faster Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:37:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.fractalriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Strategy – Fractal River https://www.fractalriver.com 32 32 The Whole Company Should Be Paid on NRR https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-whole-company-should-be-paid-on-nrr/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-whole-company-should-be-paid-on-nrr/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 02:10:47 +0000 https://www.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=5034 Customer Lifecycle Design and Operations, Revenue Operations, Strategy Net Revenue Retention isn’t a Customer Success metric. It’s a company metric. The organizations that realize this first will win.There is a quiet dysfunction running…

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]]> https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/customer-lifecycle-design-and-operations/feed/ 0 The 50/50 Future of Support: Humans + AI https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-50-50-future-of-support-humans-ai/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-50-50-future-of-support-humans-ai/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:13:32 +0000 https://staging.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=4966 Customer Lifecycle Design and Operations, Revenue Operations, Strategy Salesforce’s CEO just said the quiet part out loud:AI agents replaced ~4,000 customer support roles, cutting the organization from ~9,000 to ~5,000. For some…

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]]> https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-50-50-future-of-support-humans-ai/feed/ 0 B2B SaaS Customer Success Maturity Model https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/cs-maturity-model/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/cs-maturity-model/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 15:19:11 +0000 https://staging.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=4916 Customer Lifecycle Design and Operations, Revenue Operations, Strategy A Customer Success Maturity Model provides a structured framework for B2B SaaS organizations to evaluate and enhance their customer success operations systematically.

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]]> https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/cs-maturity-model/feed/ 0 Conversational Interfaces: Use AI to Chat With Your Data or App https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/conversational-interfaces/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/conversational-interfaces/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:26:45 +0000 https://staging.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=4735 Analytics, Data, Strategy In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, AI is reshaping how we interact with technology. Among its transformative applications, Conversational Interfaces (CIs) stand out, fundamentally changing our approach…

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]]> https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/conversational-interfaces/feed/ 0 Rethinking Product Analytics: A Smarter Approach https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/rethinking-product-analytics/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/rethinking-product-analytics/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:51:30 +0000 https://staging.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=4666 Analytics, Data, Strategy In the dynamic world of startups, the race to deliver feature-rich products often leads to a common mistake: developing analytics using existing in-house application engineering resources. This approach…

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]]> https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/rethinking-product-analytics/feed/ 0 The Scale Shift https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-scale-shift/ https://www.fractalriver.com/articles/the-scale-shift/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:50:34 +0000 https://qa.fractalriver.com/?post_type=articles&p=1408 Analytics, Revenue Operations, Strategy Over the past ten years, I have worked with many startup CEOs. One of the most common questions I get, by far, is where and how to focus their time and resources to effectively grow their startup.

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