OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. The company makes little from the operating system itself, but the more Android phones that are out there, the more Google collects in mobile ad and app revenue.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

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? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Want to see more content like this?

Acquisition 137

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. Ryan Austin 01:34 Sure, no, starting businesses are really tough as everybody knows. How are we going to do that?

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. I just think that definition of responsibility will change where they may simply be a sales and marketing person who’s focused on new logos, but immediately is handed to success from that point forward. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future.

Payment Methods 189

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 189

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. That makes measuring value easier because you’ve already identified what business challenge you’re tackling. Thank you Ceci.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Wooden on Leadership. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Here, Brian walks through strategies and methods for moving deals through the pipeline and adding more “Closed Won” deals to the board. Steal Like an Artist.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Vikas Bhambri: Three weeks later, I hosted a CIO breakfast in London and I had CIOs from some of the biggest banks in London, as well as some of the US banks that had a significant presence, i.e. at JP Morgan in London, and to a person, they said they would never spend another penny in on-premise CRM. Our payback has to hasten.”

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Having the top customers like Pinterest, Facebook, and Spotify with other 700,000 more on its portfolio, Pingdom provides website performance data that affect the search ranking, conversions, bounce rates, page views, and revenue of the customer. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Salesforce.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number three is not understanding their business model. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. ” That’s the easiest way to get your employees to leave.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire. Who is this person? Well, let’s transition then to leadership. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager.

CTO Coach 136

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 136

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The self-service sales model is thus all about low-priced products accompanied by a fully automated customer journey. Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. Focus: Product and Customer Journey.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website. Romain Huet : Yeah, totally.

Payments 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As founders and leadership teams scramble to minimize the impact of the downturn on their businesses, I can assure you that most of their employees aren’t reaching out to them offering creative solutions to their problems. Platforms like Shopify have grown to the extent that they have (and are currently doing really well!)

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

SaaS Payments 248

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 248

SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

Lucidchart has been recognized as one of the most mature Product Lead Growth business models in the market, driving over 700,000 registrations per month, combined with a hyper-efficient B2B business model. Here is our original payment page. Overall, they increased payments by 25%, which is obviously great.

Marketing 107

Marketing Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 107

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

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? Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. First, selling payments is actually reasonably different from selling SAS.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange. I think it’s such an interesting window into the company’s business model and I bucket companies into one of three buckets. They’re overwhelmed by the payment decision of which plan to buy. Let’s get started.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath. Although SaaS companies share many features across their business models, there is enough variation that requires differentiation in the financial model.

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

BrightBack

AUGUST 19, 2019

Here are three ways to grow your business utilizing customer retention. A subscription business model requires proving a consistent return on investment (ROI) to your customers. When it comes to measurement, a single churn goal needs to be communicated from executive leadership to the rest of the company.

Retention 55

Retention Underperforming Technical Team Strategy SaaS Payments 55

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Revenue models often get conflated with revenue streams, probably because each is a single revenue source. They are also confused with business models, of which revenue models are a part. Revenue models help business owners determine how to manage their revenue streams and are required to complete a business model.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. We were on the phone selling our software before we’d even really begun to get the first few customers in and figure out what do they really need? We have Tradeshift Pay.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We spoke with Kim and Lee to learn more about their careers, how they built AuditBoard into the company it is today, and their leadership styles. Kim: At a lot of larger organizations, risk is a very critical component as they operate the business. Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together.

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Because you think he will benefit from plan B even more and make a larger payment. People will appreciate when they can combine 2 online tools and have the same data in one place automatically. Here again, we have examples – Zoho Books (accounting software) and SEMrush (online visibility management platform).

SaaS Payments 159

SaaS Payments Payments SaaS Payment Methods 159

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? We also tap into the more payment ecosystem, and we have ways of earning money there. Where are the challenges? What must one always do? *

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121