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. With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems.

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Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

And at the call center I was at, the recruiters told me the job wasn't a sales job, just customer service. You could be written up for not pitching a sales offer on EVERY CALL that came in. I now work internal tech support for a logistics company and love my job now and feel like a new man not tied to the phone.

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Payment Methods Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 52

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. You must allocate decent funds for these tasks.

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Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. In that time, we became the first ever or the youngest company ever to enter the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the Gardner CCaaS Magic Quadrant.

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Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 142

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? 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 there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 247

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Our next company SteelBrick was inspired by the first and SteelBrick was really a next generation CPQ and one of our audience members Lars Nielsen is right here. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 165

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Building a great sales team is not just about hiring the best people (although that certainly matters). Commission structures are most often found in industries that are sales heavy or that deal with direct sale services or products but lack a storefront. Which Sales Commission Structure is Best for you?

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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. People pay with cash and how do you get that cash into your systems?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Building a great sales team is not just about hiring the best people (although that certainly matters). Commission structures are most often found in industries that are sales heavy or that deal with direct sale services or products but lack a storefront. Which Sales Commission Structure is Best for you?

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Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 52

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. ” And now we have the first crop of hundred billion dollar SaaS companies, right? So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

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. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Customer Success-driven Sales.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. Harry Stebbings: For those that don’t know, Pleo is the simple spending solution for your company, automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses.

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121