Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

While the convenience of combo meals abounds in all fast food restaurants today, in 1958 the opportunity to purchase a main dish, side, and drink for a set price (and less than if all the items were purchased individually) was a novel idea, and one that helped them stand out in a very competitive marketplace. TV is a great example.

Pricing 47

Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. But these established companies drive what’s called “sustaining innovations,” which are modifications and improvements on existing services.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. The job market vanished overnight.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Founded in 2008, it developed this AI-powered Chrome extension. The company then helps the more than 11,000 schools that use its services to analyze and act on the amassed data. The platform hosts lessons in the areas of personal development and business as well. It comes in two plans as of now. Location: Norway.

Technical Review 21

Technical Review SaaS Software Review Systems Review 21

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

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?

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute.

Sales Hiring 195

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 195

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. All right, a good amount of you.

Scale 117

Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 117

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2022

In a recession, there will be a lot of “noise” in the media and marketplace. Recessions are times when you must have an elevated view of yourself and the value of your products and services. I personally had some of the best sales successes during the 2008 recession and I was not the most talented salesperson.

Sales Hiring 84

Sales Hiring Strategy Sales Leadership 84

User Pilot

JULY 28, 2023

A fake door MVP involves having a clickable component in your UI that captures interested users (even when you’ve not started developing that particular feature). A high-fidelity prototype MVP can help mimic the look and feel of a fully developed product. High-fidelity. 4 – Low-fidelity MVP design prototype What is it?

Marketplace as a Service 75

Marketplace as a Service Social Media Development Machine Learning 75

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We can do the private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So there already exists an app store or the Instabase Marketplace where these first-party apps, you can go online now, download an app for automatically processing bank statements or driving licenses or passports. And it was essentially providing consulting services for people in my local town and surrounding area.

Scale 98

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable. In particular, post-2008 when a SaaS solution with its OPEX offering stood out from the conventional CAPEX solutions. Layering of revenue.

Scale 86

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 86

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities. Loving our podcast content? We know that that’s the case.

Scale 173

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 173

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. Finally, prior to Shoutlet, Eric spent over 7 years at ExactTarget as a Senior Business Development Manager which is where he met High Alpha’s Scott Dorsey.

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 142

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 Making them available through API, as third party developers. Want to see more content like this? Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. The US market has high demand and supply of SaaS service providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. The company started back in 2007, 2008. Developers were really loyal to the product, and they were able to take the product with them whenever they went.

Scale 173

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 173