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 266

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 266

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

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.”

Sales Recruiting 175

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 175

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Here’s the payments and if you sign them within the week you’ll be really happy.” So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

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 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. An alumna of Yale and Stanford, Allison has contributed to the Customer Success industry as the COO of Gainsight, a prominent customer success company, and a 1B USD unicorn. Allison Pickens.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Successful SaaS companies grow in two ways: by acquiring new customers and by retaining existing customers (i.e., 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.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Outsourced Development 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. The company raised a monster $60 million series A from Accel and Atomico in 2017 with only one prior investor, being Y Combinator. billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Takeaway: For a culture to be strong, everyone needs to be on board. Mistake 2) Solving for sameness (culture fit vs. culture add).

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

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. You take as long as you need.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 158

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. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Look at Eric Yuan at Zoom.

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 149

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 Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * What changes? *

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127