SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. They love SaaS products.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Jason Lemkin: So you have like a great profile irrespective of what your startup’s doing.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

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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?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. Buffer spent $3.3

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? When is the right time?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user engagement analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user engagement analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. I’m EJ Brown, Senior Content Strategist at FastSpring, we help SaaS and software companies scale around the world.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Loving our podcast content?

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Looking for a good SaaS analytics tool and wondering which one of Appcues, Product Fruits, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for SaaS analytics on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. There is a better tool for your SaaS than Appcues!

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Looking for a good SaaS reporting tool and wondering which one of Appcues, Product Fruits, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for SaaS reporting on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. There is a better tool for your SaaS than Appcues!

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good user behavior analysis tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? In this post, we’ll discuss exactly that – which tool is best for user behavior analysis depending on the different criteria that different SaaS companies may have.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. Sales Process Engagement. Functional Support.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps refers to succeed through your own efforts without relying on investments or help from anyone else. Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Basecamp is a bootstrapped company, for instance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

How long is a startup a startup? It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Are we still a startup? There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for an effective event tracking tool and wondering if Heap is the best option for your SaaS company? We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

The farther you get into your startup journey, the bigger the challenges are likely to become. If you feel that your startup’s getting caught in the doldrums, it’s important for you to show focus and determination. Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

When the future is predictable, people like to invest. To give it to you as a startup for example, let’s say that the markets were paying 10 times trailing multiples for revenues. They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. It’s very difficult to get financed.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this? Right, Renaud?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Looking for an effective event tracking tool and wondering if Userlane is the best option for your SaaS company? We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. Google developed it to evaluate the quality of the user experience. Let’s get started!

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