OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Member Spotlight Series: An Interview with Dominic Ballinger, Director of FP&A and Integration at Sage. Small to mid-sized service companies. How has the new business environment affected your business, and are you considering any changes to your business model going forward?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6%

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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. What is the process to do it efficiently? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian.

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume. It’s not even close. They needed something now.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s the beauty of subscription models. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. Why Shift to a Subscription Revenue Model. As you get more subscribers, revenue increases exponentially. Popular SAAS Revenue Models.

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Payment Features Payment Services Subscription Payment Solutions 142

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number three is not understanding their business model. If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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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. Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Aydin Senkut.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar. Insight Selling.

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User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Offering self-service support.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin shares his interview checklist. But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos, and Kim pitched his friend the idea for a product that would revolutionize the way companies manage auditing processes while the two were at Lee’s house watching SportsCenter and chatting about their favorite team: the Lakers. How did you find your way to Mucker?

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. That’s way post-revenue.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So Planday is, I think the category is called workforce management platform.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? 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? * Loving our podcast content? What changes? *

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