SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Our team is in Room 111.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? By the end of this article, you’ll have a better understanding of the common pitfalls that lead to customer churn and how to avoid them. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Hopefully the information below will help you avoid premature scaling.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. What Is Lead Qualification? Why Lead Qualification Matters. Leads Are Either Qualified or Unqualified.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Which asks users to rate their likelihood of recommending your product to a friend on a scale of 0-10. Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction. They map a numeric scale that ranges from 1 to 5 or from 1 to 10. Likert-scale questions. Ordinal scale questions.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. There are two common modes here in lead gen and peer to peer e.g. Zillow, Thumbtack, Craigslist.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. David used the U.S. as an example: “You charge in U.S.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Sales capacity tends to get rusted in place, and when markets move quickly, the return on the cost of sales inevitably starts to flatten. Ensure sales leaders are sweating the details of daily execution. Most sales organizations do not seem to be prepared for a recession.

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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 Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Stripe vs. Zuora: Features Both Stripe and Zuora are feature-rich solutions, each one with its own pros and cons to offer. Table of Contents. BE HONEST.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. These companies can scale really efficiently. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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Casey Accidental

MAY 27, 2021

Every problem should have user research involved at the beginning, aligned on the problem instead of just validating or invalidating solutions. Every engineer, designer and product manager on the team should be involved in defining the problem and the solution. Product development projects always have very high opportunity cost.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Or perhaps you work in marketing and are looking for ways to test and optimize your sales funnels. Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. This is particularly true if you are already selling products at scale in the real world.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Does one have to move to enterprise?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. Sure, if you are an upstart company like, say, Roam Research, you might not yet have an integration platform, but you almost certainly will build one as you scale. . Integration Platforms.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow. But as you scale beyond Series A, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right lane? In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processing. We’ve curated a list of 10 industry-leading subscription business tools to tackle recurring issues and streamline your subscription business. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. From an internal standpoint, the software is a valuable training tool.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They help you understand how to optimize your website, web app, or landing page. Now, let’s begin this comprehensive article by highlighting the basics of website session recording software. Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well. To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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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. Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment? How does this change sales rep payback periods?

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? Scale and shine.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Dashboard, which was a payments company back in Brazil that did payment processing, like Stripe, Braintree, or ePay, all those … That’s you guys’ versions of the company. After three months of college, we decided that we wanted to start a company, and we tired of payments. We know a lot about payments.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. What makes things tricky is, first, the uncertainty of how your CACs will develop at increasing scale and of how your churn rate will develop over time. eight years.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 15, 2022

Bad timing sticks out a mile.”. If your Customer Success (CS) teams doesn’t possess ESP, you need tools to identify a customer’s buying signals, usage behavior, and ROI to break the endless cycle of trial and error with your expansion outreach. SalesIntel is a leading sales intelligence platform and B2B contact data provider.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

241: Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it?

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Although we can make a compelling argument, it doesn’t always win over prospects. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Why shouldn’t I just build my own logic on top of [insert gateway name]?”

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. There are two common modes here in lead gen and peer to peer e.g. Zillow, Thumbtack, Craigslist.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions. And after you’ve mastered the sales process, Chargify is here to handle your recurring billing. Provide a Self-Service Solution for Problem Solving. Self-service solutions are also cost effective. Have a Trial or Freemium Offer.

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