FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

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? SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Revenue Churn: How to Calculate, Track & Improve. Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments. How to Use Customer Feedback to Fuel Your Business Growth. Remote Hiring: Our 5-step Interview Process. What I’ve Learned Building a SaaS App for Stripe Users. Calculate What Feature to Build Next.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Throughout this series, we have provided many resources to prepare you for this stage of your business journey. With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., What happens now?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Happy post lunch interview. So Plaid, we build the infrastructure that lets consumers interact with their bank accounts on the web. The core thesis behind it is banking was built for a world that didn’t envision the internet. Ari : You have a preference? Zach : Go for it. Ari : All Right.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 144

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. So actually having a good process for getting that buy-in is extremely important. And then the last one is not creating an environment around transparency around money in the bank and KPIs. We had half a million in the bank.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 171

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. 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. Missed the session? Dave Kellogg. Elisa Steele.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

DealPoint is the first sales platform for customer-centric sales teams. Today we’ve got on the show Tom Williams , Cofounder and CEO of a company called DealPoint , the first sales platform for customer-centric sales teams. Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform. The first one is Chorus.ai.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems. The next step was building the organization and the product that could deliver a winning solution to the world. We had an idea. We had a market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 65

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After nearly going under twice due to cash flow issues, she finally cracked the code for success, transforming her business from a $20,000 loss in December of 2020 alone to achieving $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just two years later. Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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. It’s precisely the success of that integration that often dictates the success of the overall acquisition.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Spending or hiring ahead of budget to try to juice growth weren’t options in this model and we’d be forced to grow the way we wanted to: sustainably, with a focus on creative, long-term solutions for our customers and team,” said Savage. of revenue at the time and the business was valued at $60M - a valuation multiple of 13x revenues.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Predictable Revenue. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. The New Solution Selling.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 139

Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

Yet, people lie at the heart of every software company, so taking good care of them is imperative for every SaaS business that wants to succeed. For us the software we use is the keystone that allows us to scale what we do. A bit later in the month, we prepare a revenue report for tax purposes. ChartMogul.

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User Pilot

JUNE 19, 2023

TL;DR Conversion happens when someone takes a desired action on your app or website. The sales process conversion funnel involves four stages: website visitor, marketing and sales qualified lead , product qualified lead , and paying users. Education-related SaaS platforms come second with 7.5% adoption rate. adoption rate.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. So at this stage, these companies have these amazingly predictable monthly recurring revenues. Harry Stebbings. Robert Vis.

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