OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. By contrast, slow-growth companies reported 20% revenue from international business in 2020.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payment Services Payments 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

398: Rob Gonzalez is the Co-Founder & CMO @ Salsify, empowering brand manufacturers to deliver the product experiences consumers demand at every point in their buying journey. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. My account runs my website. Harry Stebbings: We are back.

SaaS Payments 262

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 262

Incredo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You may be live demoing to masses on social media or via on-demand video on your website. Did you visit the prospect’s website to see what’s their business at all? We work with the biggest brands leveraging influencer marketing, including Coca-Cola, Under Armor, HyperX and more. We are starting right now.

Payment Solutions 168

Payment Solutions Software SaaS Payments Payments 168

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

My father was an entrepreneur, but he was building pump companies, very different businesses. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And my father was in pump business. And then he said, “SteelBrick.”

Sales Recruiting 168

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 168

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. How does Robert think about knowing when a business is ready to scale? The company raised a monster $60 million series A from Accel and Atomico in 2017 with only one prior investor, being Y Combinator.

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 101

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Renewing customers contribute significantly to your annual recurring revenue (ARR), which is an important part of the revenue stream that allows businesses to predict and strategize their internal investments. The most successful businesses create repeatable processes that lead consumers to become advocates. Brand Recognition.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Outsourced Development 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

She has helped several companies grow and scale their business by developing streamlined customer success processes and successful customer retention strategies. They then help the clients develop a customer-centric business strategy that increases customer loyalty and retention. Anita Toth. Annette Franz. Ashna Patel.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

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. They don’t have an agenda. So I would avoid that at all costs generally.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 157

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 136

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

It’s actually just connecting the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of companies that do business all over the world. We realized that in most company do not have access to the global economy. Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. “Oh it’s about failing fast.”

Payments 103

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Finally, prior to Shoutlet, Eric spent over 7 years at ExactTarget as a Senior Business Development Manager which is where he met High Alpha’s Scott Dorsey.

Sales Hiring 137

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? Where are the challenges? What must one always do? * What are the challenges?

Scale 118

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 118