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Financial planning for SaaS startups

The Angel VC

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. The second thing was understanding the business model of people who were evaluating Stripe: Do you sell to businesses or do you sell to consumers? We just were never going to get that headcount.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. It’s a business crisis. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online.

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Rules to Run Your SaaS Business By

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. During this period I’ve learnt more than I ever thought possible about the SaaS business and my personal growth has accelerated with each passing year. Understanding what, when and where to place your bets is hugely important.