SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

350: Neha Sampat is the Founder and CEO @ Contentstack, a modern content management system bringing business and tech teams together to deliver personalised, omnichannel experiences. What were the signals that made Neha realize she had a scalable software business? What did Neha look for in her first seed round investors?

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Scale Technical Review Technical Advisors Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Know your forever user.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably.

Sales Hiring 205

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 205

Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

And while we considered illustrations, our design team ultimately decided to go in a different direction. As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends? You almost always need to scope out a big chunk of your marketing team’s time, budget, and brainpower.

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Trends Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 111

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Dare I say SaaS.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 117

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. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Now, there’s 5,000 and 2,799 of them were horizontal software companies and one was Veeva. Actually, two.

Payment Solutions 150

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 150

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Sam : We funded all three of these companies in our Winter 2012 batch. PlanGrid builds beautiful, simple software for the construction industry. The second is pulling more around values, and how we approached team building. Even as a three person team, we went through an exercise to figure out what do we stand for, as a team?

VP of Engineering 267

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 267

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. Hiring is complicated, so you have to build a lot of software to get to $200M ARR. That wasn’t obvious in 2012. Not quite yet.

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Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 218

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right. In 2012, Wall Street didn’t really know how to value SaaS companies. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. Rob Gonzalez: Yeah.

SaaS Payments 264

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 264

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Preparing for the future As an app marketer in 2019, the best way to prepare for mounting competition and further technological transformation, is to embrace a curious outlook, a dynamic approach, and an obsession with both professional and performance development. trillion hours by 2021.

Mobile 40

Mobile Marketing Growth Hacking Technical Review 40

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 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Scale 124

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 124

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Are these all software? Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. How the hell do you keep track?

Sales Hiring 265

Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? Maybe they’re early in their career.

Payment Methods 204

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 204

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price.

Sales Hiring 176

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 176

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

Marketing 217

Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 217

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I don’t promise that this story of the software company, Midori answers “how to be like Slack,” but it does explain that maybe the Slacks and Atlassians of the world are making it easier for others to follow their path by building powerful ecosystems. to Atlassian and focus on building great products.

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us. Evgenia : Hi.

New CTO 147

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. He ran global sales and service for Bullhorn, which was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2012. Nick Worswick : Yes.

Development Team Review 54

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 54

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I think everyone needs some stability, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly or in the middle to survive. Jason Lemkin: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: Yeah.

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

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. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? Ryan Smith: No.

Acquisition 128

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 128

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

Sales Hiring 256

Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review CTO Hire 256

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. Justin Bedecarre: Whereas if you’re a software company, you can wait until, you don’t have to compel people to come in sooner than they feel safe. Aaron Levie: Everybody had their digital team. Jen Nguyen: Yeah.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Manager of Enterprise Account Development at Lucidchart. Building out a new enterprise development team, and scaling it from 3 to 14 reps over a one-year period. . I want to lead and inspire larger teams while being a successful mother. . Moving to London to kick-start sales for the local division of Amazon in 2012.

Sales Recruiting 90

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If RFPs are slowing down your sales team, you need to check out Loopio. It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high performing organizations across North America. Prior to that, he led sales teams all over the country, and we’re incredibly excited to have on the show. AJ, welcome to the show.

VP of Engineering 74

VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 74

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2013. TradeGecko.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Tim has 30 years of experience in building, launching and growing successful enterprise software businesses. He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Brian Parks: 00:05:55.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. As a core part of Matt’s philosophy, people need to have their own domain and run open-source software because it allows them to control the entire stack of what they’re putting online.

Underperforming Technical Team 283

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 283

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 6, 2019

I don’t know your company’s story, but I’m guessing it went like this: Jane heard about Slack from a friend, so she signed up and started using it with her team. Most software companies dream of seeing people adopt their product like this. It used to be hard for a company to adopt new software. We are at an inflection point.

Sales Hiring 62

Sales Hiring Software Merchant Services Underperforming Technical Team 62