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. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, this company supports over +100,000 businesses nationwide. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. Namely was founded in 2012 and currently works with over 1,200 HR leaders. It offers Social Media scheduling, engagement, Analytics, Social listening, and CRM services.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Not the most original name for the service, but we’re here for it nonetheless…). Businesses offering subscriptions need to experiment with different features and offerings, gather actionable user data, and make adjustments in order to optimize their process. They’re calling it Walmart+.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. After singling out 38 brilliant SaaS stars , we had a suspicion we were going to find some notable fuelers of growth. And we weren’t disappointed.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2012.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Rob Gonzalez: Yeah.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. The entire time.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

I want to sign up and try that service! ”. Luckily, you can take a lot of actions to influence that process and showcase your value. Or maybe the onboarding process is too complicated. The activation process solely focuses on conversion. There’s a science to SaaS pricing, and you should always be evaluating your pricing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company. So really well said.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 221

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. But the downturn in SaaS, at best, is uneven.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. So, we were going to raise capital.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

To save your time and make your decision process easy we have reviewed some of the best platforms. Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. Influence4you. TapInfluence.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

I see marketing, strategy, outreach, UX, development, product, customer service, management decision-making, sales, PPCs — basically everything that makes an e-commerce business viable. Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Special thanks to @avinash.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As one of the most difficult markets to enter and succeed, how can new and old SaaS providers win with SMBs? So it’s a neat opportunity for them to get access to the tools and services that previously were unavailable to them. 68% of millennials say they would pay more if they could have a more personalized service.

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