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. It’s the SMB space. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 167

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The litmus test is if you’ve created a marketplace: are people actually building on your product because there’s value that you’ve created, or is it just a nifty integration? The upside of having this big two-sided marketplace and extending your product into tons of different products with an API is quite large. But are they platforms?

Underperforming Technical Team 170

Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

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.

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Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 88

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. ” Is it SMB or is it Enterprise? You make that decision based on the fact that your profile fits either an SMB or Enterprise. Then, you can decide, is it a high volume play in the SMB? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask?

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 149

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 182

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 182

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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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

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. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 176