OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Time and time again SaaS companies are promising customers that they will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but their pricing strategies are only capturing a tiny fraction of that savings. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes. Pricing Hacks and Experiments.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. Sam Jacobs: Oh my.

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 96

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

This gives you four basic types of ideas: Scalable Growth: that’s the ideas you’re currently using as a foundation for your business model, they require a lot of company resources, but they’re tested and provide high ROI. Work on developing your brand. Hire Game Changers to Propel Growth. Anything less is not acceptable.

Scale 103

Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. For many developer tools that is actually one potential vehicle for PLG.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From speaking with a variety of CFOs and VPs of Finance recently, here’s what we are hearing they are looking for in their FP&A hiring, outside of traditional Finance, math, accounting and reporting skills. SaaS success is increasingly defined by the business model and the balance between revenue growth and profitability.

Finance 40

Finance CTO Hire Headcount SaaS 40

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. You’ve got to think about taxes. There’s just a lot of work.

AI Search 139

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 139

Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. But we do know how online businesses work. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people.

Software 75

Software CTO Hire Scale New CTO 75

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. How have you seen it develop? Harry : For the company.

Technical Advisors 158

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 158

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? Jason Lemkin: Box Shield has a rule-based hire, I can pick rules. And then obviously, I think there’ll be more remote hiring in this environment. ”, the kind of foundational ERP systems. Aaron Levie: Exactly.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Now scaling the business means different things depending kind of where you are, what you have, but certainly in our case and I think in the majority of cases, it means scaling the team. That means lots and lots of hiring and I don’t want to say firing, we did fire anyone, but people get reshuffled, you know? We did not. Absolutely.

Scale 144

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 144

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 206

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Walk us through the basic business model. Brandon Meyers: There’s kind of an evolution of our business, and maybe I can take you guys through that as well. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.

Subscription 106

Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106