SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. They’re on a rocket ship.

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Payrix

AUGUST 21, 2024

Back to customer stories Delivering a premium payments solution to premium printers Payrix takes Inktavo’s payments to new heights with high transaction limits, greater efficiencies, and seamless access to working capital. Payrix was also able to provide embedded ACH, consolidated reporting tools, and single checkout experiences.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2022

Let go of your bottom 20% of sales reps, concentrate leads in the best reps. This always gives you both a top-line boost (the top reps close more per lead), and gives you room to hire more reps at the same budget (to replace the 20%). And make all your VPs accountable to it. They hire mediocre folks on their team.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. Almost irrationally.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Everything is done under one platform. And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Who Is WorkOS and What Do They Have To Do With Enterprise Readiness WorkOS is a developer platform designed to make it really easy to become “Enterprise ready.” When you actually sell to the Enterprise customers, you need to go into their systems and integrate with whatever they’re using,” says Grinich. It’s not an option.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. Join CEO Romain Lapeyre as he walks you through how to close your first 1000 customers based solely on data. Two books that were great to us were Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Enter the platform company. And so about 10,000 in the U.S.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

It’s hard to know when you’re ready to hire a sales team — and the consequences can make or break your startup. Perhaps not surprisingly, about 40% of new companies go out of business because they run out of cash or fail to raise capital, reports CB Insights. How do you know you’re ready to hire a sales team?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Payrix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the fast-evolving world of software, Embedded Payments have emerged as a crucial element for software companies aiming to grow their business, enhance customer experiences, and streamline transactions for consumers. Businesses today expect seamless transactions, both for themselves and their customers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. Companies tend to stick around.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

Today I’ve got a lot of data to share with you and I’m really excited because it’s really interesting. My name is Tom Tunguz, I’m a managing director at Redpoint, I’ve been there for about 10 years. We took that data set over the last three months and it was an enormous amount of work. Ready to go?

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Stax

APRIL 10, 2025

Question: what’s the best way for your business to get paid while satisfying your customer’s need for varied payment options and convenience? Answer: know the top modes of payment your customers prefer, and ensure you accept them. You will need POS terminals to accept and process in-person card payments.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Send invoices and/or payment notifications. Provide your customers with a self-serve portal where they can manage their account. View reports on the key performance indicators that drive revenue. To learn more about how FastSpring can help you scale quickly, sign up for a free account or request a demo today.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Great SaaS product management professionals don’t simply specify features and functions, they create online experiences that satisfy business, professional and personal needs. And in the course of satisfying those needs, they drive revenue growth by pushing the three fundamental SaaS growth levers.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ensure the tools you use integrate together. Time is of the essence for any business, but when you’re a small team with big goals, you need to be even more ruthless about how and where you spend it. Before you add a new tool to your tech stack, check to see how it integrates with the core tools you already have and use everyday.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? They’re spending mostly on data gathering. So we have different tools.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model. If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly. Blue numbers indicate data-entry cells.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 1, 2021

When choosing a payments processor, businesses have a lot of goals in mind. So, when it comes to comparing platforms, major players like Stripe and Shopify Payments are likely to top your list. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

When I think about AI, the most important thing is how do we leverage the data that we have to actually create that trust environment for our customers. René: The core cornerstone of everything that’s happening with AI is you have to have the right data to be able to create the models. That data is not public.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Jabari Norton. Crowdstrike.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you’ve ever considered launching your own online business, chances are you’ve thought about the required tools. And while there are several ecommerce platforms on the market, Shopify and WordPress remain the most prominent. A Review of the Best Ecommerce Platforms. In fact, on the contrary, there are way too many.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 6, 2021

Research shows that repeat customers spend more than once-off customers, making retention a priority for any Ecommerce business that wants to grow. With research showing that retail Ecommerce sales are set to be more than $548 billion by 2024 , you’ll want your customer retention strategy to be solid enough to get you a piece of that pie.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

A recent study analyzed data from thousands of events over a five year period and found that approximately 70% of professional event speakers are male. Fortunately, more organizers than ever before are consciously seeking out female sales experts for panels, presentations, and podcasts. Sales Development. Sales Growth.

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