SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? 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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. You take all of your assets , liabilities , revenues , expenses , investments, etc. Why is cash flow modeling important for SaaS? and project them into the future. QuickBooks 4.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage. What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models?

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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.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Asking “what’s the typical commission for SaaS salesperson?” is like asking “how expensive should I price my SaaS product?” common software sales comp plans, 2. what factors to consider before defining your SaaS sales commission percentage 4. What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models?

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance.

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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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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Table of Contents.

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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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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. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. David used the U.S.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. I’ve put together a list of my top five document management solutions—let’s talk about why they are valuable and how they can help.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111.

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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. Customer Success Management Defined. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy.

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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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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. Starting a business, even a bootstrapped one, is expensive. But you can’t build a great SaaS or e-Commerce company without the help of digital tools. Apple isn’t.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril. Will your subscriptions renew at a high enough rate to counteract a reduction in one-time sales? Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services.

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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.

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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

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 They were acquired by private equity.

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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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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup.

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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. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Related Content Check out these related resources for more insights into international marketing strategies and managing an international business during an economic downturn.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. 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. Who is involved? How long does it take?

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. It’s the center of your business. To end our analogy—creating a lean core could mean you hire a professional trainer to obtain better results. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. Monetization.

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