SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

HashiCorp’s competitors sell a variant of some of its own open source-based products for less. New customer count is up an impressive +19%, and new bookings are up +40%. So HashiCorp has a lot going for it, with strong new customer growth (+19%) and an impressive book of customer commits (+40%).

Scale 254

Scale Cloud Scaling Revenue 254

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Talent + Asset — Taking everything t o expand the business or some core piece of the product. Or integrate the features into an existing product, which is an acquisition of the product. 2 Talk to Product: D eals that go through M&A teams have an extremely low success rate — less than 1%. Let’s find out. #1

Software Review 245

Software Review Technical Review Acquisition Scale 245

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Beforehand, I read his book Tape Sucks , watched some of his videos on YouTube, and read his blog posts. Frank’s new book Amp It Up evoked the same feeling as our conversation. The book is part personal history, part management philosophy, all intensity. I remember the first time I spoke with Frank Slootman.

Sales Hiring 230

Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Engineering 230

User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022? We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. What is a SaaS blog?

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital SaaS Data Scale 52

Subscription Flow

APRIL 1, 2024

A merchant of record for digital products is the legal body permitted to handle client payments for digital goods and services as companies negotiate the intricacies of online commerce. Read more: Optimizing Cross-border Trade: Merchant of Record for SaaS Companies What are the digital products you may need a merchant of record for?

Merchant Services 89

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 89

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Looking for UX design books that offer practical wisdom and show you how to get better? Whether you're a complete novice out for beginner lessons or a veteran in search of expert-level knowledge, you'll find the right books for you. We covered: A general overview of the books.

User Experience 96

User Experience Systems Review Consulting Strategy 96

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

We had a great one last week with Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. This week we’re focusing on Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital! #1. Mark Roberge is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital and a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School.

Technical Review 289

Technical Review Scale Management Sales Hiring 289

User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. TL;DR The product marketing manager role (PMM) is primarily responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding.

Product Marketing 92

Product Marketing Management Marketing Customer Lifetime Value 92

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

So Samara is that vertical fleet-and-more-management-and-more SaaS company that has just roared out of the gate since its quiet IPO. Three Products Each With $100m+ ARR Another case study of going multi-product before fully maxxing out the original core. And efficient growth at that. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

Sales Hiring 263

Sales Hiring Scale Headcount Engineering 263

Incredo

JANUARY 21, 2020

From there you manage your bot’s questions, answers, and help it get smarter. The dashboard also provides you with analytics on how many leads you generated, how many meetings you booked, how much revenue to expect. And one day she converts and books a call. We don’t say this approach is wrong or doesn’t work.

Marketing 313

Marketing SaaS Social Media Customer Support 313

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Looking to level up your user onboarding knowledge with onboarding books? Onboarding books can offer you the knowledge and insights necessary to craft a remarkable onboarding process. In this article, we've compiled the 10 must-read onboarding books that'll enable you to transform your user onboarding strategies.

Onboarding 94

Onboarding VP of Engineering SaaS Consulting 94

User Pilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Whether you’re a seasoned product management pro or just starting out on this thrilling journey, we’re pretty sure you’ll discover a book or two that will help you boost your product management game.

Management 93

Management Technical Review Leadership Innovation 93

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

Was it misunderstanding bookings vs. ARR vs. GAAP revenue, was that the issue? Anita Kutlesa is a senior financial executive with nearly two decades of expertise driving performance through cash management, process improvement and strategic planning in start-up, high growth and restructuring environments. Anita Kutlesa. Coverity Inc.,

Finance 328

Finance Outsourcing Services Systems Review Technical Review 328

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently. Join these incredible companies to experience all the value of SaaStr!

Banking 247

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 247

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

When you’re growing, you don’t have time to see how much people are using your product, so it can’t last unless we’re in a global meltdown, and we’re not. So the next prediction Nick and Jason had for 2024 was that vendor consolidation will only continue to funnel more business towards multi-product solutions vs. one-off SaaS tools.

Sales Hiring 270

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale AI 270

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money. More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app.

Payments 246

Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 246

Totango

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These accolades highlight our product’s user-friendly nature and our team’s relentless efforts to ensure a smooth setup process for our customers. All the while galvanizing internal collaboration across accounts and facilitating upsell/cross-sell opportunity and execution to grow our book of business.

Software Review 109

Software Review Technical Review User Experience Enterprise 109

Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

His Simple Programmer blog, a place that’s already frequented by thousands of developers, is a mandatory bookmark. #2 Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. You can also find his detailed articles and guide on his blog – AddyOsmani.com. #4

Development 130

Development Technical Advisors Web Development Web Developers 130

User Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

Building a knowledge management system can stem the tide, keeping your customers happy and ensuring your support agents can focus on more important tasks. In this article, we will explore all you need to know about knowledge bases and how you can create a knowledge management system that works. Book a demo to get started!

Software Review 89

Software Review AI Search SaaS Technical Review 89

User Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

ChatGPT 96

ChatGPT Management Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 96

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market. Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Subscription Flow

MARCH 25, 2024

Tasks in this diverse role include managing payments, complying with tax laws, and reducing risks such as chargebacks and fraud. Keeping all this in mind, in this blog, we will firstly be talking about how a Merchant of Record ecommerce can help an ecommerce business.

Merchant Services 95

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Facilitation 95

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This blog is centered around Asana integrations with SubscriptionFlow and in general the best Asana integrations. Asana, however, is a cloud-based software for project management that helps with teamwork and work organization. In this blog, keeping all this mind, we will look at some of the top Asana integrations with SubscriptionFlow.

Payments 59

Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Features 59

User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Funnel analysis examples can help product managers find the missing puzzle pieces to improve user journeys. Create data-driven product roadmaps. Book a Userpilot demo to begin. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Experience to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is funnel analysis?

SaaS Payments 99

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 99

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. One of the blog posts was about this Yahoo! It was a miracle.

Engineering 214

Engineering Management Merchant Services DevOps as a Service 214

Buffer Resources

APRIL 9, 2024

  Enter: these AI productivity tools, all of which help me streamline, automate, and optimize as much as possible. Every second I save goes toward that glorious hour or two when my work is done, my daughter is snuggled up in bed, and I can cozy up with (read: pass out on) a good book. 

AI Search 102

AI Search AI Social Media ChatGPT 102

User Pilot

MARCH 6, 2024

How do you create a robust product funnel for your SaaS? We also explain: How product funnel differs from marketing and sales funnels. Why it is important for your product management efforts. The typical stages in a product funnel are Awareness, Interest, Consideration, Purchase, Retention , and Loyalty.

Social Media 91

Social Media Sales Funnel Acquisition Retention 91

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Wondering how to scale customer success in SaaS and drive product growth ? Create onboarding checklists for each customer segment to guide them through your product and help them achieve immediate success. Book a demo today to learn more! This is exactly what Notion does to make its product easier to use for new sign-ups.

Scale 94

Scale Customer Success Scaling SaaS 94

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

These roles include UX Designer, Researcher, Tester, Motion Designer, Product Designer, UX Engineer, and Product Manager. To save you time, we’ve built a no-code platform for product designers. Book a Userpilot demo to see how you can easily apply UI/UX principles for free! Product manager persona example.

Software Review 89

Software Review Interviewing User Experience Technical Review 89

Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

SimpleCirc stands out as a noteworthy option when looking into subscription management software because of its intuitive user interface and effective subscriber data handling. Say you are a small online marketplace owner whose product links customers and independent artists.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 88

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 11, 2024

By concentrating entirely on product initiatives to simplify a more complicated problem to a straightforward plug-and-play option for medium to small business (SMEs) owners and accountants all over the world, Xero has grown to become one of the most well-liked business accounting platforms on the market.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 52

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 31, 2023

🤩)  Buffer’s Staff Product Manager, Brandon Green , has taken the same approach. ” He’s organized his posts based on whether they are product-focused content, remote work content, work-life balance, and a few other topics. ” (How beautiful are Andrea’s ideas and tags below?

Social Media 107

Social Media AI Systems Review Branding 107

Subscription Flow

MARCH 12, 2024

In this blog we will not be talking about stuff that you already knew, and will instead be focusing on telling you stuff that you did not know about Paystack. In section one of the blog, we will be focusing on understanding how does Paystack work in Nigeria? The advantages of this partnership go beyond increased productivity.

Merchant Services 86

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 86

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this blog, keeping in mind this context, we will be centering our focus on firstly defining Subscription Renewal Oversight, understanding how it may have changed in 2024, before finally helping you devise a robust B2B SaaS renewal strategy for your small to medium-sized (SME) business in 2024.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments B2B Strategy Payment Services 59

User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

TL;DR User sentiment is the feeling a person has about your brand, product, or service quality. Tracking customer sentiments provides insights that help you make product improvements, enhance the customer experience , and boost customer satisfaction. Repustate – best multilingual sentiment analysis tool. Consider some of them: 1.

Social Media 98

Social Media Software Review Technical Review Machine Learning 98

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is the blog to read if you are a business owner trying to manage your transactions more effectively. In today’s blog, to help you streamline your financial processes, we will be going over Square integration with QuickBooks which can easily integrate to help you simplify accounting duties and streamline business operations.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 52