SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. They all come to this river, and they stand on this river bank, and the river is infested with the crocodiles.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. We’d like to see your software.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

We're not Nike whose underlying brand story is about honouring great athletes and we're not Apple who can "Think Different" We're a simple SaaS company that needs to build a brand and that starts with simpler story telling around the product and what it does for the customer. ” Source. " Who is the bad guy?

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

We're a simple SaaS company that needs to build a brand and that starts with simpler story telling around the product and what it does for the customer. Trying to squeeze a Luke Skywalker story arc into the first draft of a SaaS product story is not simple and can go wrong. Does it deliver on the brand promise consistently?”

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OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. ” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. We used the same process I put into action with my first book, Hacking Sales.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 62

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So we saw huge lifts in acquisition when we moved from money that you can get in 12 hours to money that you could get in five minutes in your bank account, and that’s because some people didn’t have 12 hours to wait and stress. You had town car services before.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 143

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Dave make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How many meetings is normal to have in this process? Who decides this? What are they?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 146

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We had half a million in the bank.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 170

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The idea for Pendo arose out of a need I had experienced first-hand while working as the VP of Product at an enterprise SaaS business. My personal frustration was not reason enough to launch a company, but I quickly realized just how acute and pervasive these problems were for a variety of roles across many industries.

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Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. 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. Ari : All Right.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 143

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. 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. Our bank account takes a hit.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. And so, yeah, very surreal.

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Acquisition Payments Payment Methods Scale 118

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. FinTech is also a big area of interest both for the firm and for me personally.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

As each of you have likely personally experienced, whether you’re a founder on sales, with each compensation lever you pull, there are inevitably behaviors on the sales team that get pushed. Anything around collections, anything around having customers apply on time is really a company and process problem that needs to be solved.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 137

User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s no magic number when it comes to conversions, but knowing B2B SaaS funnel conversion benchmarks can benefit any SaaS product manager. In this article, we will discuss the most common B2B SaaS conversion rate metrics and their benchmarks. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5% adoption rate.

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Benchmarks B2B SaaS Payments Payment Methods 98

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 217