SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. At least, just that one month during the funding process. Nondisclosure of loans and repayments of founder “debts” from proceeds, and/or other unusual payments to founders or other execs.

Finance 278

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 278

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 88

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 88

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. Then something really interesting happened.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit. Want to see more content like this session?

Sales Recruiting 167

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 167

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. .” It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. costs money and 2.

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

Sales Hiring 154

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 154

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. So this is Dharmesh.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140