SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 116

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payment Services Payments 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

Neil Patel

JULY 26, 2021

What are their annual revenue and profits? For example, suppose you want to franchise a tax company. In that case, you need to consider how you’ll stand out from online companies like TurboTax and in-person accounting firms in your physical location. Financial projections : Estimate the revenue for your business.

Payment Methods 129

Payment Methods Business Sales Hiring Travel 129

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. Those strategies make sense for a lot of companies, but there are outlier cases that make use of other models. Principle 3: Build a Strong Company Culture. How will you handle those questions?

Payment Solutions 41

Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Would customers stretch out payment terms? Challenges: How would these constraints impact the business? What would the economics of the business look like? For example, they were just opening up an office in EMEA, but they chose to preserve these efforts, despite them not yet generating revenue. “It

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services Forecasting 40

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 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The document also helps new staff members understand your firm’s policies, culture, procedures, and expectations, thereby allowing them to effectively and quickly integrate into your organization. Cultural alignment: a human resources playbook can help you reinforce your firm’s mission, culture, and values.

Payment Services 10

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Systems Review 10

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Contracts are the lifeblood of modern companies. They define relationships, outline rights and responsibilities, and spell out the details of any sale, including price, timing, payment terms, warranties, and more. In fact, contracts govern most B2B business deals. Risk mitigation contributes to the company’s revenue.

Payment Services 102

Payment Services Technical Review Payments Software Review 102

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 247

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 247

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

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. Without the payments coming in from customers, it is difficult for startups to manage growing finances during this stage.

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

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 you'll hear some nuance in there.”.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

Incredo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How our product can help your business – 5 min 3.Final Final Q&A – 5 min Of course, depending on your SaaS company culture, your demo may last up to 30 minutes. And make sure you remember and keep your promise. #7 Without further ado, ask for payment – Sorry? Product intro – 5 min 2.How

Payment Solutions 168

Payment Solutions Software SaaS Payments Payments 168

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

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.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers. Platform Structure.

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 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. The impact this structure has on company culture, customers, and brand recognition isn’t immediate, but with time, it can prove to be significant. Retroactive. Click To Tweet.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 130

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. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

Sales Recruiting 165

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 165

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

MARCH 17, 2020

.” Maybe they send out a message on Slack, maybe they send you a text message and they say, “Hey, do we have anyone who in Talkdesk could probably be say like of a certain size, with certain number of integrations, maybe in this regional vicinity or in this country?” What am I going to get?

Scale 142

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 142

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 152

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 152

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. The impact this structure has on company culture, customers, and brand recognition isn’t immediate, but with time, it can prove to be significant. Retroactive. Tweet this quote.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 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 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Then, you can always fall back to one.

Sales Hiring 141

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. 7 Ways Customer Success drives Company Valuation.

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? *

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121