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 135

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 135

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. Ultimately, what we’re building is a multi-channel commerce platform.

SaaS Payments 265

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 265

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Takeaway: For a culture to be strong, everyone needs to be on board. Chances are that your technology leads were your best engineers.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

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

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. I was more of an engineer, MBA.

Sales Recruiting 171

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171

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 103

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Furthermore, developers and software engineers are often treated as a monolithic group, when in reality there are dozens of disciplines with specific needs. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers. The rest can come later once they know that our platform is what they want to build on.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

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 136

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So if you need to wait longer, if you need to prepare your board for a longer process, don’t just check the box because the board told you to. Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. Can you recruit the team to that company? What was the other question?

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 159

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

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. They eventually sold the company to mobile interactive group, or MIG. .

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 101

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 do you respond to investors when they say, it’s seven pounds per month, ugh, Jeppe, it’s just so hard to scale to 100 million in revenue. What changes? *

Scale 119

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 119