OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. The process to change price points can’t happen in real-time.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The purpose of Fyle is to enable the user to work with simple and everyday apps for all employees. Half-yearly business reviews to optimize cost and compliance. Approvals can now be created for workflows based on the level of violations to enable the policy. Compliance. Receipt Compliance. Policy-driven Approvals.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. Ophelia : Hi everyone.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. Most of these companies are SMEs that are responsible for the lion's share of the value produced.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

When you’re selling B2B or enterprise subscriptions, showcasing value throughout the sales process is a must. Because the contracts are typically much higher in these sales agreements, B2B subscriptions often require a much longer sales process before your customer will consider making a purchase. Customer knowledge. Contract length.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

SaaS operators have the expertise but are continuously blocked with foundational issues that take time and energy. Chargify ~ unblocking your SaaS business. At its core, Chargify removes barriers for SaaS businesses. Michael Klett, Co-Founder & CTO, Chargify. Joining forces to drive SaaS revenue.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. Joel had what he calls “an honest conversation” with Buffer’s CTO Dan. Related posts: The Rise of Self-Service Analytics.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. 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. Compliance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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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.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. But first, we need to set some context (albeit from the perspective of B2B SaaS).

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

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. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience?

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USIO

JUNE 5, 2025

Ever sat through a payments meeting and wondered if you accidentally joined a secret society that only speaks in acronyms? Between PFaaS, NACHA, and VPA, the payments industry has more abbreviations than a teenagers group chat. You’re not alone. Some you’ll recognize. Some you’ll want to forget.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. So this is Dharmesh. It's great.

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FastSpring

MAY 2, 2025

Managing Director Mathias Martinetz and CTO Thomas Kster knew their current online checkout setup having one solution for Europe and one for the U.S. Or, you can simplify the system with one global merchant of record. When Excire became a popular enough product line that it was being sold in both Europe and the U.S., was not efficient.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. So this is Dharmesh. It's great.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

In a tougher public market for SaaS commpanies, VCs are pulling term sheets again, and deals are also falling apart again after soft commitments. VCs operate in one of two modes — greed or fear. At least, just that one month during the funding process. But now we’re back full circle. This happens all too ofte n.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

This is someone who personally gives me a lot of energy every time we have a conversation and, uh, has just been an incredible partner, both to the fund, uh, and to, uh, operator, uh, one of the companies that we’re both involved in. The second is that you enable those customers to achieve their own business growth, right?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) They just built the first SaaS product. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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