SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The role of finance in SaaS is changing. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past. IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 25, 2015

SaaS startups are either competing within these categories or creating a new category. Then finance tools for operations management and expenses. PagerDuty, AWS and New Relic are the three listed in Okta’s reports. Collaboration tools should top the list because employees bring them to work. log in exclusively on mobile.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. B2B is in a similar bind — a conservative spending approach and a tougher financing environment will affect SaaS spending as well, meaning that we might see things get worse before they get better. . — Josh Kopelman (@joshk) May 18, 2022. What Should You Do?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

And if you work for a CEO, whether you’re on the e-staff or really any position in a startup, I’m hoping that by understand how the CEO thinks and how the CEO looks at certain issues that you’ll be better able to add value and it will help your career. Startups are like sharks. ” Send me an email. ” Right?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Engineering 165

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. How AWS Does It. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. From Wall Street to startup.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Currently, there are 3 primary options available to implement AI in a company: Cloud or LLM providers: Large cloud providers, like AWS, Google, or Microsoft, all provide services to implement generative AI in a secure way in the cloud. They typically specialize in a specific business function or area.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Flex is a finance super app built around a credit card with unique Net-60 day terms that enables businesses to make an investment today and pay it back 60 days later with zero percent interest. This is especially critical for startups and younger companies, who don’t have the resources of a large scaled marketing team.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. And then four years later, every VC or a startup was calling me up to say, can we sponsor a group therapy dinner?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’s easy to think that high growth can make up for a low stock price, especially for founders at fast-growing late-stage startups that are still burning cash. ” —Deputy CISO, AWS “In my career, the deployment of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform was perhaps the easiest global security rollout I’ve seen.”

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

” Martin Raißle , VP Finance at ChartMogul “Towards the end of the year, we’ll see the first SaaS products that are built from the ground up based on AI — without drawing attention to this. Smart startups will focus their messaging on the problems they solve, not how they do it.”

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. Going the Amazon Web Services (AWS) route? Your SaaS tech stack should ideally be powered by Python, React, and AWS programming combo. What’s it right for? The cost of isolation is put on customers. Related: Common Security Pitfalls of User Management. instead of Python.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? We’re seeing pockets of strength and then we’re seeing pockets of startups that overnight not only are struggling but might even want to immediately stop their spend, right?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. Paul Rosania: Well, I’ve been in and out of startups my whole career and my big break came close to 10 years ago now. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’re excited to have Vishal Sunak, the CEO and founder of LinkSquares where he’s responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate, legal, and finance teams with the review of their contracts. RELATED: How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup. ” Right?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

Our data centers are shut down, but as I was telling you earlier, AWS barely existed when we started our transformation. Peter: How to sell, how to do corporate finance, understanding strategies so that business strategy and IT strategy are one in the same. Casey: And you guys still made it work. Peter: We did. Casey: Yeah.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. We even did a collaborative video with Slidebean discussing “Why Startups have booths at Trade Shows?”. QR codes — added the ability to quickly copy your newly created API keys by scanning the QR code (instead of needing to type them out on your mobile device). and $50M.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. We went through an accelerator and almost got our startup MBA.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Startups with 1-25 employees or less than 30 expense reports per month. Finance Operations. There is absolutely no way a person can use expense management software, and not have the finance operations included in them. Fyle runs on AWS. Billed monthly: $6.99/active

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indian SaaS enterprises deal with a wide variety of clients across finance, education, healthcare, and wellness. Found by Chandra Mohan Grover in 2006, IBSFintech is a SaaS company that offers financial solutions for managing corporate trade finance and Forex treasury. This article will help you –. Facilio Inc. Capillary Technologies.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. Develop relationships in product development, legal, finance, marketing… across your company (in addition to your customers’ companies in the appropriate groups). Nikki Ivey. Arley Nevar.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Workday is a software startup that focuses on assisting businesses in streamlining their management procedures and improving workflow.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 28, 2021

Startups are designed to grow quickly, but high growth rates can generate huge costs as new infrastructure is introduced and scaled to meet demand. One of the challenges of a reactive program is monitoring ongoing infrastructure costs and overall spend so your finance team doesn’t get any nasty surprises. No surprises.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

For hundreds of startups in the as-a-service world, the scores of product launches at last week’s Amazon Web Services Reinvent Conference each were a warning shot across their bows. Second, these dollars finance hundreds if not thousands of engineers are working on developing new products at a torrid rate. We are coming.

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