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.

Scale 86

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 86

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 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. The nice thing about other SaaS companies publicly sharing metrics and for investors, you can get an idea of what’s possible. I think it’s something that, for me, is trusting my gut. Harry Stebbings: Totally get you.

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

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.

Scale 172

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 172

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 Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual.

Payment Services 133

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.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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. So the travel industry isn’t just going to be spending a ton of money on SAS services anymore.

Venture Capital 216

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 31, 2021

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Product Marketing 64

Product Marketing Scale Marketing Pricing 64

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.

Scale 169

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 169