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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. And it has been since 2017 or so! It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. But that took time.

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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs.

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CRO Confidential: The Proven Customer Acquisition Strategies Behind Toast’s Explosive Growth with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and CRO of Toast Jonathan Vassil

SaaStr

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time. They created the first corporate card specifically for startups. Just six years later, he’s the CRO of the company.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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The ChartMogul 2017 year in review

Chart Mogul

Here's a summary of what we shipped, published and achieved in 2017, in case you missed something! We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue. Life or death.”.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. RD Station.

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Hear From These Speakers at SaaStr Annual 2020

SaaStr

Wade Foster is Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, a SaaS company that allows users to integrate web applications they use. After building their initial prototype, the team presented at Startup Weekend in Columbia and won. “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army.” The rest is history. The Deep Dives ??.