Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

Navigating payroll, benefits, and compliance shouldnt slow you down. Mike Walrath: Yeah, so it was incredibly unfun at the time being on the wrong side of that trend. The way we were developing product in 2009 and 2010, which felt incredibly innovative, is we’re identifying these kind of sectoral trends.

AI Search

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

As companies are increasingly interested to use SaaS as a winning strategy, several recent trends in 2020 have been observed amongst top SaaS businesses: In 2020, it is very important for SaaS businesses to create customer-success functions and take a more proactive approach towards customer success management.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It was initially compliance focus. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical. And then the value proposition changes because it’s not about regulatory and compliance, it’s all about now is AI and machine learning and analytics and so on. And again, we had to prove that with the data.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. So it was really a near death experience. Godard Abel: So I do, in hindsight, I really value those years, although at the time it was very anxiety and doubt filled, and a very painful time.

Scale