OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

My personal frustration was not reason enough to launch a company, but I quickly realized just how acute and pervasive these problems were for a variety of roles across many industries. Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user.

Payment Solutions 41

Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. And that’s where we’ve been building from. Aydin Senkut: Yeah.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. 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.

SaaS Payments 264

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 264

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. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

Sales Recruiting 174

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 174

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. An alumna of Yale and Stanford, Allison has contributed to the Customer Success industry as the COO of Gainsight, a prominent customer success company, and a 1B USD unicorn. Allison Pickens.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. The company raised a monster $60 million series A from Accel and Atomico in 2017 with only one prior investor, being Y Combinator. billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

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

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. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. They don’t have an agenda. You take as long as you need.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 158

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

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. Customer Acquisition.

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? * How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? Jeppe Rindom: Yeah, I think pricing has been an iterative process for us.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127