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 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

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. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work. Funnel optimization**.

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

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In 2019, success isn’t simply about your customers’ successes or how good your sales and marketing campaigns are. Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. Principle 3: Build a Strong Company Culture.

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

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. There’s no denying that contracts are an absolute necessity for conducting business.

Payment Services 102

Payment Services Technical Review Payments Software Review 102

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

SaaS Payments 268

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 268

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Building a great sales team is not just about hiring the best people (although that certainly matters). The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. Which Sales Commission Structure is Best for you? Click To Tweet.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 130

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 160

Incredo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You always want bigger commission checks , right? So after reading today’s blog, you will be opening your eyes to SaaS demo best practices and closing more sales. Want to learn more about SaaS sales? How our product can help your business – 5 min 3.Final Your demo scenario is not always the same.

Payment Solutions 168

Payment Solutions Software SaaS Payments Payments 168

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As the balance of power within companies shifts to technical roles, and sales teams understand that selling to developers is about building with them, not talking at them – progress is being made. Still, many shy away, creating an advantage for those companies that can engage. This isn’t the typical SaaS sales approach.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

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. Sales managers were the best reps.

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

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

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Building a great sales team is not just about hiring the best people (although that certainly matters). The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. Which Sales Commission Structure is Best for you? Tweet this quote.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 52

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 174

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 174

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.

Scale 144

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 144

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

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. Does that work for you, Eric?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 142

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? * You’re facing extremely long sales cycles, which doesn’t really align with the quick results you want to have as a business. What changes? *

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121