SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved?

Sales Hiring 146

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 146

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. What sort of terms make them less beneficial for the vendor? * Missed the session?

SaaS Payments 137

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

Sales Hiring 84

Sales Hiring Compensation Sales Payments 84

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Up to 20%- 40% of churn is caused by failed payments , meaning customers who are trying to buy your products are being discouraged by technical problems and searching elsewhere. Customer support.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model?

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * This podcast is an excerpt from Aydin and Roelant’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Loving our podcast content?

Underperforming Technical Team 163

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 163

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. Brands are now building physical stores that act as real-world ads for products you purchase online. The products that defined 2019. Des: You are very specially welcome.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount. Or if you said you had $2,000 in monthly revenue churn, that means you lost $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue from either customer cancellations or downgrades. So, when should you start worrying?

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay.

Compensation 103

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 103

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 122

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 111

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Growth stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. Come drive our car, come to our store.’ They say, ‘Look at us. We’re awesome. We want to go” 3.

Payment Methods 206

Payment Methods Scale Social Media Airlines 206

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Ari : Millions of dollars in lawsuits as an eight person company and you need them to give you an amount of money that’s roughly equal to that.

Payments 143

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 143

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. That was February 5th, 2019. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. They had to reinvent themselves.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 156

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 199

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. ChurnZero raised a $2.5

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. How quickly you’re able to accelerate growth depends on your ability to build a nimble sales org and develop a strong sales strategy. These lay the foundation that enables your team to run as efficiently as possible.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. Amazing job — you’ve made so many people so very happy pic.twitter.com/fyQ7H43q00 — Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) April 12, 2019.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

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. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The good thing is … this is the good news, bad news. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

New CTO 151

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 151

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Working with over 800 startups, many of which I’ve formed personal relationships with, has taught me a lot about what actually moves the needle to improve retention. User Churn and Revenue Churn. Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) April 12, 2019. Peter Caputa IV (@pc4media) September 21, 2019. Quick Ratio. No trial: 8%.

Retention 52

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Poor marketing. A better strategy is to prioritize building your audience alongside developing the product. In this world, growth trumps all other priorities.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) Your Recurring Revenue.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. He saw something.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * What changes? * Missed the session?

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 125

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. This podcast is an excerpt of Michael’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Where do many people go wrong?

VP of Engineering 137

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 137

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

This podcast is an excerpt from Robert’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. 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.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 217