Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well. The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. This is really common, but it doesn’t have to be; if you have the right digital marketing strategy in place, growing your business is easier.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. David Schmaier: Sure.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. 1 Focus on creating a brand, not just a company. 3 Educate, educate, educate.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Why does Dave believe 99% of companies die? *

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. the right for 1,000 people to use a SaaS service) – so the payment structure is purely financial in nature and not related to customer value. Payment structure. $1M. GAAP revenue. $1M.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. “So I can see: is there an ecosystem around what’s happening that I can maybe try to tie into with my marketing?”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. What would be your definition?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. The first one is brand exposure. In regards to school brand, brand awareness. So they knew about the brand before signing up.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does one have to move to enterprise?

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. Let’s start with some definitions. Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. Distribute your survey using Typeform or Google Forms. Collect useful feedback.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Enter the platform company. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

The “customers” part of this definition is important, since this is what differentiates customer analytics software from tools like Google Analytics, which look at data from website visitors as opposed to customers. Microsurveys are a great way to collect user data because they keep your users on your platform. How big is your company?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Having done a lot of conversion optimization, for many big brands, in the years running up to that. But I’m not going to know if it ultimately resulted in revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. I say profitable as we are using our client's’ financial data to determine what to pay, or often not pay, in the digital advertising platforms we manage. Geoff: Someone once told me. Soren used to be a rocket scientist.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. Come out of your comfort zone, choose the best online course platform, and create your course outline for people who are ready to learn something that you already know. Why Choose an Online Course Platform?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. How do you help your team make that link to value?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

It offers an easy way to stay in the loop about what’s happening in their industry or with their favorite brands. Additionally, it’s a simple way for businesses to monitor their mentions on social and track competitors. The Search Monitor Not sure how your brand stacks up against its competitors?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. Predictable Revenue. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Buyer-Centered Selling. Hacking Sales.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. Emotional marketing isn’t a strategy only elite brands like Lego can use. All the way to recreating their original ads in 2021….

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. 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.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

There’s definitely a reason more and more document management solutions are adding these features. Making great looking, on-brand, up-to-date content of any kind is hard. Plus, with prior versions logged, changes to documents can be examined and the original can be restored if something bad happens. Document Creation.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

Big Data – disrupted the traditional decision-making patterns of businesses. 3D printing – disrupted the production process of many manufacturing industries. Blockchain – disrupting banking and finance for businesses. Mobile Payments – disrupting the transactions between businesses and customers. Final Words.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. Skills for SaaS Sales Team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. Business, the customers are getting impacted. Timelines’ longer for fundraising for closing customers and payments get delayed. Fundraising is more difficult now.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Learn more about our localized branded checkout. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Individualistic markets, like the U.S.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. You’re probably in charge of the different payment methods that your company accepts. They say, ‘Look at us.

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