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. You have to remember that the people that you’re working with, the team that you’re engaging, they all been groomed the same way. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit?

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 115

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There is also a direct impact on employee engagement, which is a key indicator of a healthy company culture. A recent Gallup poll reported that June 2020 saw the most considerable drop in US employee engagement on record (more so than during the 2008 recession or after 9/11). Small details make a big difference.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Adnan Chaudhry, SVP of Sales at Salesforce then provides actionable takeaways on how to refocus your sales teams, engage with customers, adjust your sales comp, and how you can properly forecast in today’s new landscape. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York. Good to be here.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 157

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The 6sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in market for your solution and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging, generate more opportunities, increase deal size, and get into opportunities before your confrontation.

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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.

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Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

User Pilot

JULY 28, 2023

Pros: An explainer video mvp is an engaging way of showing off your product Once you invest the time in making one video, it can be shared many times Cons: Some users prefer hands-on experience to demo videos Survey monkey’s demo video. #6 Dropbox Dropbox began life back in 2008 as a simple four-minute demo video MVP.

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Marketplace as a Service Social Media Development Machine Learning 96

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform.

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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.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 144

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 As we’ve measured it, we looked at employee engagement. Want to see more content like this?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

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. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. 253: Leah Busque is currently a General Partner at Fuel Capital, an early stage venture fund located in Silicon Valley. She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 139

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Or how the customer service team is going to deal with companies that aren’t renewing as planned? Where sales rep productivity’s maybe slightly more challenging to predict in the early days, or in marketplaces where actually you have to project your mindset out many years, three to five years to really see those unit economics.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 170

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.

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We got started in 2008 when we first spotted this sort of new place in investing, which we called seed. And Cameo for me is one which is a marketplace and now very much in the like the at home entertainment its like a whole lot of fun. Nicole Quinn: [crosstalk 00:01:01]Sure, let her start to talk. Floodgate is now 12 years old.

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Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 214

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you missed episode 175, check it out here: Protecting Migrant Children: International Social Service. Our private membership connects you with a network of thousands of like-minded peers and resources, where you can tap into leadership opportunities, training, mentorship, and other services made for high-growth leaders like you.

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Product Marketing Scale Marketing Pricing 65

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. And I think it’s especially true of SaaS companies, when you start to think about the fact that everything is a service.

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