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. ” Many leadership paths. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. Outside of the tech sector, investment banking remains a relative rarity as a path to CFO.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Similarly, the startup leadership are usually the best people to figure out the type of an integration needed between their app and the billing platform. Without visibility to your A/R, it would take a while from your company leadership to notice if there’s a looming cash crunch. When a payment comes in, it should decrease.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

Where will it make sense to invest the time, effort, and money to set up a local entity and scale it? Do you need to expand overseas to ensure your competitiveness or leadership position as a company in your respective market? Payment Processing and Currency Management. Local payment management is critical for several reasons.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

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. How are we going to do that? We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

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. Want to see more content like this?

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 143

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? I know there’s everything written about how 57% or 68% of the buyer journey is done before they engage a salesperson because so many people are researching online. Now having said that, even then I need to invest in that enablement. So what do I know right?

SaaS Payments 137

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 170

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. 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. Steal Like an Artist. The Decision Book. Innovating for People. Thinkertoys. Money: Master the Game. The Sketchnote Handbook.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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. And so what we build is the infrastructure that lets you programmatically interact with your bank account. Zach : Yet.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 147

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Sales motion: A corporation’s method and strategies to market its goods. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): The sum invested in acquiring a new client, typically through marketing and sales efforts. ” To let your reputation precede you is one of the best methods to assist them in coming to this conclusion.

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Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 199

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 123

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Here’s proof: In 2008, Hilmon was running a media business with about 80% of his revenue coming from commercial real estate and banking. Meet the experts.

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Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For example, your marketing leader may not need access to everyone’s salaries, and yet they should be the person owning your marketing funnel driving the new customer forecast. The first method is error-prone to say the least, and the second is just too time-consuming (and still error-prone). Create an Autopilot Forecast.

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Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2019

She discusses how she transitioned into her role at Square by first being the best person you can be in your role. Join us as we discuss how to invest your time into a company before taking the next step in your sales career. Training investments you must make. Ashley Grech : I spent almost 13 years in banking.

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Payments Scale Sales Hiring Payment Methods 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. We were on the phone selling our software before we’d even really begun to get the first few customers in and figure out what do they really need? We have Tradeshift Pay.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

We invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and you know we live and breathe enterprise tech, by how much we nerd out on sales completely, with all of our enterprise portfolio companies. And so that required leadership coming in and saying, “What exactly am I looking to incentivize here?” Meghan Gill: So true.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 137

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. They also don’t hang out online, there’s no congregation where a bunch of small businesses are that you can find them.

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Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101