OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In 2019, success isn’t simply about your customers’ successes or how good your sales and marketing campaigns are. Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. At Pendo, customer success is everyone’s job.

Payment Solutions 41

Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Successful SaaS companies grow in two ways: by acquiring new customers and by retaining existing customers (i.e., Renewing customers contribute significantly to your annual recurring revenue (ARR), which is an important part of the revenue stream that allows businesses to predict and strategize their internal investments.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Outsourced Development 52

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

You may have already come up with an excellent business plan, implementation timeline, and also profitable marketing strategy; however, you may not have emphasized the importance of customer success at this stage. This could be a major risk and hamper your business’ growth. Now, your next step will be expansion.

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

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. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company.

SaaS Payments 249

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 249

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Here’s the payments and if you sign them within the week you’ll be really happy.” So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Now, I joined Talkdesk kind of in the second stage, which is, hooray, you’ve got enough customers that you’re able to do references potentially at scale. At that point, often you’re using your customer success team, your AE team to really kind of manually manage this process there.

Scale 142

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 142

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. In some ways we’ve really integrated and that part’s been great.

Payment Services 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In the SIX(!)

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

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? * The mortality rate of SMBs is so high that you are going to always have high churn due to the customer segment? What changes? * When do they start to arise?

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121