SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. 2008: 317 customers. 2008: 42 employees. So, they chose to focus on growing fast and achieving industry leadership in their space.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. So we had to prune back even as we were pivoting the teams and the leadership to chase a new opportunity. And we introduced a subscription business model.

Leadership 70

Leadership Business Model Healthcare Acquisition 70

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. Chris O’Neill | Partner @ Portag3 Ventures.

Scale 257

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 257

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. Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. You pay a subscription. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud.

Payments 103

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. How do Jeff and Sameer think about what what truly special leadership looks like today? We call them our leadership principles. What were his core learnings from that? *

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 124