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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. Businesses grow money for a variety of reasons. By selling shares, a business essentially sells its ownership in exchange for cash. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial , and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. You see a huge variety of different SaaS businesses and I want to touch on the different profiles, how they acquire and retain customers, and more. Even though, the ACV does not rapidly expand with the business.

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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. Every person has biases.

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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. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. How are we going to do that?

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

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. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

On today’s episode, Flywire focuses on the customer, MoneyLion drops the “Netflix of finance,” and Impact Pricing launches an online course you’ll be all about. Impact Pricing launches an online course —Accelerate Your Subscription Business—claiming it will be “your blueprint to packaging and pricing for growth.".

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

Carl Gold over at Multi Channel Merchant knows we’re living and breathing the recurring revenue revolution—and that the subscription space is only going to expand. Organizations across all industries—from big names to smaller heroes—are increasingly turning to subscription to set their businesses up for growth. Email Address Play.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. .

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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. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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? * How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? How does Jeppe think about when is the right time to move into enterprise?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The company recorded a $100 million revenue within just 9 years of its inception in 1999. A leading provider of powerful and affordable IT infrastructure management software, it has over 275,000 customers in 190 countries. This SaaS and cloud-based remote connectivity services giant has recorded a revenue of $1.2 Solarwinds.

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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. We were always extremely transparent about our cash in hand, our months of runway, our traffic, our revenue. Who’s going to lead sales? But two, they’re going to suspect the worst.

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