User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Account Managers: They serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters. What is a SaaS business model?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. It scales with your customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. How can you capture, qualify and convert the right leads for your business while working within your means? Short on time?

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

So, you’re thinking of taking a job at a startup, but are nervous about the risk, perhaps having trouble telling one from another, and unsure about knowing what’s really important in startup success. Startups are about people. Great core/founding team. We live in a founder-friendly VC era.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sometimes, we’ll invite guests for off-the-cuff conversations and Q&A focused on focused questions like how should I build my startup’s marketing team? How do I create the right kind of recruiting process? How can I evangelize my product to developers? And we have a great lineup so far.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Steve has previously said, “Sales and marketing must be one team.” Where does Steve find common points of tension between sales and marketing? Speaking of developer-first, how can startups compete in a war for talent against FB and Google? Glassdoor had a business-to-consumer and a business-to-business.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Today, our pricing analysts look at more Peloton problems —and what that could mean for startup IPOs. our good pal Hiten Shah, a master in the startup community—who shaped FYI, Crazy Egg , and Kissmetrics into the successes they've become, not to mention an advisor to 120 additional startup endeavors. Your top subscription news.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Debt financing is preferable for sales and marketing acceleration since it has a lower long-term cost and enables the company to expand quicker. Creditors prefer a low debt-to-equity ratio, which helps the business if it ever requires more debt funding. Hedge funds invest in high-growth, high-risk businesses.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 26, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Rahim Fazal , Co-Founder and CEO of the SV Academy. If you missed episode 71, check it out here: PODCAST 71: Why is Account Based Marketing Not Working w/ Latane Conant. Keeping up with the evolution of sales. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. What You’ll Learn.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. Know your forever user.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2018

We’ve been compiling this sales automation tools list for a while, trying to figure out the best way to get the information out there. There are a number of existing resources available on sales automation, but they don’t offer use cases and examples of how to put the tools to action. What Is Sales Automation?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. So it’s been awhile.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk. The exchange of value.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

Customer Success was barely a discipline when Anthony joined Gainsight, but thanks to the rise of SaaS and subscription-based business models more generally, where retaining and providing value to your existing customers is a non-negotiable, the category has exploded. Why do most startups fail? Focus on people, not just product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? 298: Startup success is not exclusive to Silicon Valley.

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Baremetrics

MAY 14, 2020

A year and a half later, Product Pains had decent usage but still no real business model. I quit to join Andrew (he likes to say he recruited me) and we transformed Product Pains into Canny , a SaaS tool. Takeaways: Many businesses start off as side projects. He quit and decided to pick Product Pains back up.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. They recruit sports athletes, and offer a bunch of things for the sports athletes pretty cool. There’s the plug, Brandon, you owe me one but this thought of recruiting athletes and creating a marketplace. it’s a sports tech company.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. In general, European rounds tend to be slightly smaller and valuations slightly lower than they are in the US.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Accountants are responsible for ensuring the company has clean financial statements and data. This function can be outsourced in the early days of a startup, but it is usually brought in-house after Series B. This role can be recruited through headhunters or your network. Encourage bias towards action.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

The success of The Athletic has so far played a very strong role in bending the narrative of ad-supported media business models to subscription-based models, which are much more aligned with what benefits the end customer." - Eric Stromber, Founder and Managing Partner at Bedrock.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. Number three is not understanding their business model.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier. So I dove in, and I learned.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. As a result, revenue recognition is a fundamental part of the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Early stage.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It took us 2 years just to figure out our ultimate business model. I meet with great VPs of Sales and Product in particular who are Ready. I’d like to recruit you to be a VP at one of my companies, but I get it. You’ll almost lose your Best Logo Accounts. It’s time. To go out on their own.

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Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

especially for SMB SaaS startups. Today, small and medium SaaS businesses are discovering the power of using partners to help sell their products. Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. Your partners act as an outsourced sales and marketing team.

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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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. The key here is knowing what your sales model is. And there are basically two sales models out there.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We follow about 30 KPIs through the sale cycle in the business.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 6, 2019

Build a Growth Team For Your Startup?—?Step Want to put that business from scratch to the sky? If you are on the side of those entrepreneurs who believe in the existence of a solo entrepreneur, then one thing that you need to understand is that nobody who’s ever scaled a business from the ground up did it alone.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If talent acquisition, development, and retention are top-of-mind for you as a sales leader, here are 40+ of the best sales training programs to check out! No wonder recruiters go ballistic trying to outdo each other in attracting the best professionals to create value for their companies. Cohen Brown Management Group, Inc.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. So that’s one I actually tell the recruiters at Stripe, their job is to flag when they think it’s a no hire.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Kevin Yip , COO & Co-Founder at Blueboard , an employee recognition company he founded after working 100-hour weeks without appreciation. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The surprising things about running a startup [12:25]. powered by Sounder.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

All the quantitative analysis in the world won’t lead me to the next great idea for startup. Startup idea generation has always been closer to poetry (with a healthy addition of user research) than accounting. We identify unusual companies, those with best in class sales efficiency or revenue growth.

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