SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2022

Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is partially off. Most surprisingly, my CTO — the most start-up-ey guy I know — is still there. You may be asked to own new stuff beyond just what your company / app does. Contingent payments incent — and modify — behavior.

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Payment Solutions Payments New CTO Payment Services 345

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. Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Average salary: $95,566/yr. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When the company was first founded, two of its co-founders, Wade and CTO Bryan were freelancing on web projects and soon noticed a pattern around their clients who were asking for more and more integrations built from one app to another This is where the idea for Zapier was born. Delores Brown is LaunchDarkly’s Chief of Staff.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services CTO Hire Payments New CTO 100

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Once you’re selling and starting to scale and now you need a team.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 175

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 159

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135