Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model. Revenues" tab The model assumes that you have three pricing tiers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. Sure adding sales & marketing help fuel the growth, but these business were growing pretty rapidly before they injected the sales & marketing rocket fuel. Some of them, like InVision and SafetyCulture, seemed to just grow naturally without any help.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

As the fundraising environment changes, some SaaS companies will look to reach cash flow break even on their existing reserves. But there are three other ways to become profitable that limit reductions in force, enable the company to continue to grow with greater efficiency and increase the value of the company in the process.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? So data analytics, marketing customer analytics, and technology and acquisition.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When we discuss payback periods in SaaS, we implicitly mean customer payback periods. But, there’s a second and equally important payback period – the payback period on hiring a new account executive. Let’s take a hypothetical SaaS startup that sells a $20k product at a 75% gross margin.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

Do you know what’s better than one sale? Multiple sales that happen automatically. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. The post-checkout fulfillment process happens automatically. Popular SAAS Revenue Models.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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User Pilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustaining user engagement throughout the entire onboarding process can feel like a task only large teams can achieve. Kommunicate drives sales-less product adoption through product experiments and tracking adoption rates with Userpilot. Kontentino increased user activation by 10% with an interactive walkthrough + onboarding checklist.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. It’s become cheaper.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Pre-Startup.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s an important question, as your target growth rate determines your hiring plan, budget, and fundraising strategy. In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million now Homeadvisor).

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

We’ve been getting a ton of question since we announced the acquisition so this week we’re going to have Max Altschuler break down the whole story. Earlier this week, we announced that my new company, the GTMfund , has acquired my old company, Sales Hacker , from my…other old company, Outreach. Buckle up, it’s a pretty wild journey.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

After seriously considering an acquisition offer, Wistia decided to take on $17.3M I was able to take that challenge off the table by consulting and severance, which enabled me to build the right product and business that became self-sustaining about a year later. Buffer spent $3.3 John Doherty of Credo. Are our incentives aligned?’

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon charges fees on every sale through the Marketplace. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction. Authorization. Authorized reseller .

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

And SaaS analytics play a crucial part. Find out why SaaS analytics are important, which to track, and which tools are best for your subscription business. What are SaaS Analytics? SaaS analytics are analytics specific to the SaaS subscription industry. What are SaaS Analytics? Uncover churn.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

You’ve built a successful business and have a repeatable customer acquisition process that you’ve already demonstrated can scale with access to more capital. Do I sell services or SaaS? If cash flow is an immediate concern, consider selling your services. Think SpaceX.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cash Accounting Advantages and Disadvantages 1. Cash accounting gives you a glimpse of how much money you have in the bank today. If you are looking at strong sales numbers, but they aren’t matching your cash accounts, then you might have an issue collecting past due accounts.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange. Monetization had 4X the impact compared to acquisition. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Find everything involved with SaaS funding, from the types of funding to navigating the investment process (with first-hand lessons and insight from SaaS VCs). Securing SaaS funding can be exciting but nerve-racking – understandably, it may be the starting point for significant growth. No large payments.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Rob Lopez , SVP of Sales at Justworks , one of the fastest growing businesses focused on HR including payroll, benefits and the like. Using conversations with customers to inform the development of the sales playbook. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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