SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Banks use this, and Giraffe uses this.”

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

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 132

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

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. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

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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Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing your SaaS. These articles are good if you’re in the early stages of starting a SaaS company and can help you get off on the right foot. 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Track & Grow Your Business. Pricing your SaaS. There are a lot of ways to price your SaaS. 5 Ways to Prevent Involuntary Churn in SaaS.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 64

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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SaaS Payments Payment Methods SaaS Customer Support 52

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?

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods SaaS Payments SaaS Payment Services 52

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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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

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 do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? *

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 141

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 actually had my first job interview with Udemy from a payphone call center outside of Grenada, Nicaragua. We used the same process I put into action with my first book, Hacking Sales.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 61

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 142

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 167

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. They needed something now. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

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. Like many others in the SaaS space, we adopted a product-led approach to growth. Pendo, however, delivers value by changing customers’ perspectives and processes based on what the data tells us.

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Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

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. The operations of a business including sales tax, VAT filings, billing, order processing, and online payments.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 61

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Applying a sales methodology to your selling gives you a tried and true advantage, and enables you to plan your work and work your plan. Our bank account takes a hit.

Scale 141

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

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. When I was hiring my team to run comp plans, I would always tell them a quote that Tyra Banks said, “Don’t mess with a girl’s pay.” Meghan Gill: So true.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

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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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of a SaaS business? 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. How often did you have to update the credit card details in the 20+ SaaS solutions that you use? Exciting, right?

Payment Services 20

Payment Services Finance Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 20

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 212