SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 246

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow from zero to $100k in MRR in their first 12 months of going live. As Clément said, this is not about good or bad. I’ll keep you posted.) And chances are that it would have been a good investment.

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Business Model Venture Capital SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 180

The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. Instead, I think that the right team has to hit the right opportunity at the right time. It was pretty messy.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 143

InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

I transitioned from education to software in 2008, and I have held roles in everything from project management to sales. Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really. Amy Noack – Field Enablement Director. Liz Brown – Services Architect.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 62

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. Like the iPhone is 2008.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are plenty of articles dedicated to this matter, but none offers a better solution than hiring a team of knowledgeable marketers. Perhaps, you even know when you need to start a PPC campaign and why SEO is the option that is perfect for your developing startup. How Can Kraftblick Help Your Software Company?

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Advertising SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

DevOps is a practice that combines software and IT operations to shorten the development cycle and deliver high-quality software. As more enterprises adopt SaaS applications, it’s not hard to imagine a world in which most companies have dedicated SaaSOps teams. Will SaaSOps become more popular than DevOps?

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Engineering 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front-row seat at some of these turnarounds that iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap which is undergoing its own transformation. And what’s the best case?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 252

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 146

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process? Harry Stebbings: Can I ask, if we take that to a practical level, because I totally agree in terms of that career development, and the thriving. What works? What does not work?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 200

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Helen Egger — launched Little Otter. The company means a great deal to both of them. What was that like?

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Scale Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Technical Review 223

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And I just remember Matthew and Lee and I, and our team of the original eight people who really worked on this idea. Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 171

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. We had a pretty big team.

Sales Hiring 150

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

New Relic, provider of real-time insights for software-driven businesses has this formula figured out. That’s not a bad start. And that allows our customers to build better software, much more perfect software, to have better relationships, and to also build better businesses. The company started back in 2007, 2008.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 174

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. “Well, fintech might be bad in the margins for me, but I can actually profit from this so let’s embrace it.”

Payments 143

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 143

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In fact, there were a lot of people who thought it was a really bad idea. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”. IT teams enjoy the freedom from supporting on-prem hardware and software, especially as they continue to be asked to do more with less.

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DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Government Cloud 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Prior to Crossbeam Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Is that not? Bob Moore: It absolutely is. The salesperson probably rolls up to you.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David then joined Matrix from SilverStream Software, which he founded in June 1996. How does David think about scaling sales teams? But I’m thrilled to welcome David back to the show today to discuss a very specific topic, the nine stage model to get a B2B software company to get repeatable, scalable, and profitable growth.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 196

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What is the ability of the company to continue to build an incredible team?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 179

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. 7 Tips for Successfully Introducing Freemium Business Software. Some of the top software companies in business today use freemium models to engage customers.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Develop subscription models. Software has substantially moved from an upfront sale to a subscription model over the past 10 years and other industries that are now following include razor blades, automobiles, food (community supported agriculture) and hardware. Marketing software is absurdly inexpensive for what it does.)

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Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. So can your product be used to reduce other software expenditure or help clients reduce OPEX costs?

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 199

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

She founded Box’s growth team as well as the product operations team. And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. Ciara : Craig’s designed and led teams at enterprise and consumer companies including Salesforce, eBay, and Google.

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Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 131

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.

Payment Solutions 151

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 151

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. 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. Work smarter, not harder.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. And this was before the phrase you guys coined, on “software is eating the world.”

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Product Marketing Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 132

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More tactically, Enspiral started as a loose collaboration of freelancers supporting one another and sharing resources in New Zealand back in 2008. It comes down to how people can be supported to manage themselves and develop the skills they need, rather than relying on someone to tell them what to do.” Let’s be counterculture!”

Entrepreneurship 58

Entrepreneurship Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Government 58

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

He founded four companies: Skok Systems, Corporate Software Europe, Watermark Software, and SilverStream Software and did one turnaround with Xionics. David Skok: The really bad companies, you kind of get that statement from them, well, we missed the number and then you ask them the question, well why did you miss the number?

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Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Hiring SMB 117

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. Want to see more content like this?

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Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 148

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled.

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Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 132

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them. And for a while, that was the case for Michele.

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Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138