SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. I joined Stripe in 2014 (initially in London) to build out our first international markets in the UK and Ireland, and then in New York where I set up our East Coast office and commercial operations.

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ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

companies manufacture and ship their products directly to buyers without relying on traditional stores. Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Rent the Runway: Online service providing rental designer clothing and accessories, with the option to subscribe.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos, and Kim pitched his friend the idea for a product that would revolutionize the way companies manage auditing processes while the two were at Lee’s house watching SportsCenter and chatting about their favorite team: the Lakers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Salesforce.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manohar Chapalamadugu in 2013, Agile CRM is an Indian SaaS company known for its sales and marketing solutions designed for SMBs. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. And also my personal life, my wife and we, well luckily I found out we were pregnant but we were having twins.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

At the time of writing, Hi-Rez’s 2014 release SMITE sits at #15 on Steam’s “Most played Massively Multiplayer games” list , with SMITE’s Steam page boasting 40+ million players.) Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Let us worry about global payments and taxes. Mr. Todd Harris.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. What can you do to make the land as frictionless as possible?

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number two is hiring too quickly. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. The next big problem we see companies have post demo day is not establishing best practices around hiring. I’ve never met a founder who says, “Oh, I’m not good at hiring great people.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. And when I was young, I used to travel the country with him setting up his market store to sell clothes. So fast forward to 2014, I was in LA and finalizing my visa application.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. Yousuf Khan: So I think it’s an interesting question because sometimes the CIO is a begrudging hire, unfortunately, for some companies. What would you advise?

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

years since I first published this guide, way back in 2014, Customer Success has evolved dramatically. What I called the “Definite Guide to Customer Success” way back in 2014 is getting far more definitive for 2020 as I incorporate what I learned over the last year. Sales Process Engagement. In the SIX(!)

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Martin brings a wealth of experience in building and scaling sales teams, developing effective go-to-market strategies, and navigating the challenges of startup growth. 14:58) The evolution of Levelset’s sales motion and pricing strategy. (29:06) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30)

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