SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there. Kind of extreme sales models out there for SaaS businesses.

SaaS Payments 243

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 243

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

Marketplace as a Service 243

Marketplace as a Service Scale Sales Recruiting Business 243

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At some point in their growth, businesses usually start investing in customer research. They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. And that was a revelation for me as a product manager. Liam: I love the title as well. That was another challenge to make sure was addressed as well.

Interviewing 138

Interviewing Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting Software Review 138

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a global technology focused investment firm. Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market.

Scale 171

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 171

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nick Worswick, Global Head of Growth for WeWork. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. They are the leading sales engagement platform. We’re on iTunes.

Development Team Review 54

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage. Name, role, and also the stage in which you are investing.

New CTO 150

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 150

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. My whole career, quite literally, lay in front of me.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. Freshworks. Paperflite.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of Marketing and Sales Strategy. Harry Stebbings: And prior to Figma, Amanda held numerous roles at Zendesk including SVP of marketing and sales strategy. I’d also run sales strategy for the company right before I left. Is there an optimal process to run?

Sales Hiring 108

Sales Hiring Communication Scale Interviewing 108

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And today, of course, we have a recruiting team.

Sales Hiring 182

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 182

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2019

Joe Chernov: I think staying in one swim lane is probably the best for folks like you who pattern match, and recruit off of pattern matches. So now take it to a channel that’s performing really well, and that could be like a investment that’s performing really well. So how’s the specialty change each time, Joe?

Scale 140

Scale Sales Hiring Metrics Branding 140