Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

David Cancel of Drift often talks about letting your ideas “ cross-pollinate ” and mental models can be a catalyst for that. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Network effects (marketplace).

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Workplace is about connecting people.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Keeping your customer acquisition costs low ensures that you’ll have greater profit margins, which can then be re-invested into your business and employees. The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. A public marketplace for templates, plugins, and software development agencies.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service Trends Customer Lifetime Value Headcount 10

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. “Upmarket customers have different demands of you.

Scale 177

Scale Customer Success Strategy Sales Hiring 177

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Building a consumer marketplace to drive incremental ticket sales to event creators. Julia, our CEO, had told me she wanted me to focus on growing the self-service business faster. So I gathered as much information as I could about these different strategic initiatives, as well as digging into the core self-service business.

Technical Advisors 140

Technical Advisors Technical Review Scale Marketplace as a Service 140

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

These next-gen capabilities make it an extremely valuable company for the future of work, and investors agree: yesterday, Aircall announced a successful $65 million Series C round, bringing their total investment to $106 million. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. Short on time?

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Government Retention 186

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. As the lynchpin to customer retention, his history in providing best-in-class customer experience will elevate the customer journey and drive continued ComplySci growth.

VP of Engineering 98

VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. And account management, which is basically around for retention and also upsell of different products. These are fundamentally different models.

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The SaaS Business Model & Metrics: Understand the Key Drivers for Success by David Skok, Matrix Partners SaaS Metrics — 201 A slightly deeper dive into SaaS industry metrics. Because this drives investment decisions. It literally tries to make all industries happy.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

SmartKarrot

MAY 27, 2020

The marketplaces over the globe have drastically evolved in the recent period, becoming more utility-based than ever. There’s always an utter thrill and enthusiasm in generating leads and acquiring customers for a newly founded company, but for the subscription economy, customer retention is the whole and sole conception. Yes, we were.

Subscription 10

Subscription Payment Features Retention Marketplace as a Service 10

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. Whereas, if companies have a bit higher attrition and retentions less than 80%, the churn could go up to above 16%. I was an account executive covering financial services vertical and covering in New York.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160