Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

User Pilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Customer behavior analysis helps you identify the most valuable users and personalize your marketing strategy to reach them. Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 98

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. We’ll look at the strengths of each type of sales, why you need both of them in your team, and how to determine the best balance for your organization. What is inside sales? What is outside sales.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 81

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Brex Co-Founder and CEO Henrique Dubugras will talk about what he’s learned building the fastest-growing B2B company. Learn what he did differently the second time around and the specific decisions he made to drive growth among B2B companies with Brex. We’re like, “We’re not going to go into this payments thing.”

Sales Hiring 152

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 152

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 147

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of those, their Logo API, went viral on both HackerNews and Product Hunt, creating tremendous buzz and brand awareness. I would argue that freemium fell short in B2B and from its ashes rose the PQL,” he explained in a recent post. Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. B2B digital invoicing.

Payment Services 139

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 139

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

Digital disruption affects every industry and every business, including B2B companies. Do you know what impact digital disruption can put on B2B companies? To make sure we are on the same page, let us first describe what we mean when we talk about technology bringing disruption to B2B companies. Like what you are reading?

B2B 10

B2B Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Social Media 10

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

B2B Is Really P2P. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. The Joshua Principle. Eat Their Lunch. Top of Mind.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. The person using your SaaS product may not have access to the credit card used to sign up. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails.

Merchant Services 138

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 138

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. Emotional marketing isn’t a strategy only elite brands like Lego can use. This process is what my team and I use to 10x the conversion rates of companies such as Teamwork, Sprout Social, Thinkific, Athlon and Social Media Examiner. .

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Missed the session?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Brands are now building physical stores that act as real-world ads for products you purchase online. Despite huge growth and development over the last ten years, there’s also been some disappointments. Paul: I have the Google Pixel 4 here, my new phone – it is exactly the same as the iPhone, in hardware.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

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 102

Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 102

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

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? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you’re an early-stage founder or you’ve built up an established B2B SaaS business, it's crucial to understand how valuations work and how you can prepare for an exit when the time is right for you. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. We’d hate for that to happen to you. Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Learn more about our localized branded checkout. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Individualistic markets, like the U.S.

Payment Solutions 143

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 143

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Tradeshift now… I’ll let Christian introduce himself but Tradeshift now is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, B2B SaaS company out of Europe, valuation well above a billion dollars.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

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. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS.

New CTO 146

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 146

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. Toast was quick to pivot their offerings to help restaurants adapt to online ordering, closed dining rooms and contactless delivery—and this feature even helps restaurants get the word out. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead.

Payment Methods 54

Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

ProfitWell

JUNE 7, 2020

Poor customer service. Poor understanding of the value of your product/service. Credit card payment failures. Content can be personalized. For example, a B2B customer likely tracks different metrics than a B2C customer. But does personalization really matter? Customers think your product is too expensive.

Churn 83

Churn Payments Scale Underperforming Technical Team 83

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

Author Gord Hotchkiss found, “Contrary to our common assumptions, B2B buying is not a rational process. The degree of risk involved is the single most important variable in B2B purchase decisions.” They lost that bid, and later learned, “We were afraid your lead person is just too young for this role.”. Whale Fears.

Outsourcing Services 75

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 75

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. They have three main products. Founders : William Tien.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video.

Subscription 151

Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 151

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

How does Harry think about the importance of brand for enterprise startups today? What mistakes does Harry see many founders make when it comes to investing in their early brand? 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.

SaaS Payments 212

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 212