SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

Pre-startup stage Startup stage Scaling and Growth stage Maturity stage. This is an especially important stage, especially for SaaS startups. This is the stage where you identify an existing problem and understand how your product or service solves the problem. Like what you are reading? Sign up for our newsletter.

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Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers?

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

Sales Recruiting 168

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 168

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Irregardless of that, the trajectory of your company is forever changed, right? So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. You don’t get to have a Mulligan on that year.

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 155

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. While culture is something many companies try to do, getting it right takes a certain finesse. In her recent talk at Recur, Katie broke down the top cultural mistakes companies make.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). What does Robert mean when he tells founders, “Don’t try to scale”?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. When we founded Tradeshift, we really just… there was very, very few SaaS companies around.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Eric made his way into the world of startups and SaaS. What were the biggest challenges in the process? * How has Eric seen his role evolve with the scaling of the team? How does one create and retain accountability and ownership at scale? * What was the founding moment with Zylo?

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale?

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121