Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for.

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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?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. I’ll just run it as a project for these two companies and gradually develop it. Well-established where a board member of that ventral customer told them to explore that larger company if they want to look at the solution.

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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. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt. Good to be here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Bill Clerico : We, I think are going after super exciting part of the market, which is software companies trying to embed payments.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 4, 2011

was founded in 2008 by two extremely sharp students of the Cracow University of Science and Technology who wanted to build a simple, easy-to-use, web-based invoicing and billing application for small businesses in Poland. Propertybase, based in Munich, offers a simple-to-use yet powerful software solution (do you see a pattern here?)

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions. The goal of every SEO, site builder, and creator is to develop a website that is engaging, simple, entertaining, and effective at a certain goal. In 2008, Google stated they can (and do) crawl dynamic URLs. Pay Attention to Meta Data.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” The worst that can happen to a subscription based software company is to loose its existing customers forever.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. This is where the cloud meets.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. 7 Tips for Successfully Introducing Freemium Business Software. Some of the top software companies in business today use freemium models to engage customers.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

Give the buyer the tools to negotiate their own discount through accelerated payments, longer commitments, or predictable deal signature. Does the path to realization of the benefits provided by your solution look relatively easy? In 2008, we chose “aerospace” and won three massive customers. Bottom Line.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Ari : And so what is your relationship with the banking system today? Zach : Well, I guess in the truest sense we do sell software as a service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. My co-founders cut their teeth at Zoho for over 10 years building product and for over six years [inaudible] software products.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. It is effectively the app store for the web, but it’s weirdly even more addictive. Signing up for your app is the only thing that everyone does.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” The worst that can happen to a subscription based software company is to loose its existing customers forever.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The product itself should be developed with single user persona or small teams in mind, while every touch point between the potential customer and the actual purchase should be lean and optimized for self-service. Besides selling a high-priced SaaS software, Passkey also makes multi-year deals that can be worth millions of dollars.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I co-authored Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company , published in 2008, a book which devoted considerable attention to what we knew from experience to be a serious issue. When you’re small, or small-ish in comparison, you think all the fear is on your side! But you couldn’t be more wrong. You are inexperienced.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? Here’s what Elisa talks about: How to win Talentshare when the system is stacked against you. Dave Kellogg: Well, Harry, I’ve been doing enterprise software for over 25 years. Missed the session?

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Widely recognized as the industry leading WordPress form solution, Gravity Forms made an inspiring rise to success in the last several years. Prior to forming Rocketgenius, Gravity Forms’ parent company, co-founders Carl Hancock , Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut worked together developing websites for clients.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. The company even took $2.5M

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