SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring 151

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 151

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. From there he took leadership roles at a number of high-profile Internet companies, including ZipRealty and Yelp.

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

Do you need to expand overseas to ensure your competitiveness or leadership position as a company in your respective market? For example, in Mexico, opening an operating bank account and registering a company can be a five- to six-month process, made more difficult if you don’t have local representation on the ground.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 22, 2019

In 2016, it was discovered that Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts — without their customers’ knowledge — to meet sales goals. As you might guess, it boils down to how leadership incentivized the sales team. It’s also more effective than payment based on activity.

Sales 68

Sales Payment Methods Compensation Payment Services 68

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.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

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?

Acquisition 137

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

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.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

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.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. 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. Also, when you sell to start-ups, you’re often pitching a founder. If you take the case of Justin.tv

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Vikas Bhambri: Three weeks later, I hosted a CIO breakfast in London and I had CIOs from some of the biggest banks in London, as well as some of the US banks that had a significant presence, i.e. at JP Morgan in London, and to a person, they said they would never spend another penny in on-premise CRM. So what do I know right?

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

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.

Payments 142

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 142

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Sales motion: A corporation’s method and strategies to market its goods. There are a few tried-and-true methods for carrying out that task: Change your viewpoint: The last thing you should be thinking about is the product you offer. If it is outside your core market, this includes the insurance, healthcare, banking, etc.

Enterprise 10

Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

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.

Payments 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

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.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. The closer you are to B2C and, to some extent, eCommerce, you’re going to see more impacts in SMB, and in infrastructure, cloud and enterprise you’re going to see less.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

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). Even the 1.0

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

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.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

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. Square is a $30 billion market cap company that is an all encompassing payments and commerce business that serves the small and medium sized businesses of the world. Ashley Grech : I spent almost 13 years in banking.

Payments 55

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.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

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. And so that required leadership coming in and saying, “What exactly am I looking to incentivize here?” Meghan Gill: So true.

Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

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.

Payment Methods 101

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101