Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Barchi told us that his team’s definition of ROI depends on the use case.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Todd about his thoughts on: Why marketplaces can be a difficult way to attract new players. Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Let us worry about global payments and taxes.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. We really do touch every organization in the business, which consists of product and engineering, services, sales, marketing, product, and people,” he explains. “So And much more!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. It starts with self service. But that’s not how we live.

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

Definition of brand story telling: ". Definition of product story telling: "involves telling the story of a product – including why the company made it, some of the unique struggles they faced in doing so, and the changes it has made to their customer’s lives. Does it deliver on the brand promise consistently?” Who is the bad guy?

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Upscope

JULY 18, 2021

Definition of brand story telling: " involves telling the story of the brand itself, humanising the story and explaining why the company was made and how it is differentiated from other businesses out there. Trying to squeeze a Luke Skywalker story arc into the first draft of a SaaS product story is not simple and can go wrong.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. Neil Ringers: Interviewing people over Zoom is different than interviewing people face-to-face.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: My Co-founder and I met in graduate school where we were creating algorithms for processing satellite imagery. After graduate school we worked at separate start-ups and definitely caught the start-up bug.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. Customer Analytics Software is designed to facilitate the collection, sorting and analysis of data from customers. Userpilot is well known in the SaaS world for its so-called “ microsurveys.”

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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. costs money and 2. Chargify has made our business much stronger!

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Dave make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? *

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We are definitely the fastest growing code school probably of all time. You had town car services before. What would the world look like if not only did you have a career coach that could help you review your resume and review your portfolio, what if you could just push a button and job interviews popped up on a calendar?

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The idea for Pendo arose out of a need I had experienced first-hand while working as the VP of Product at an enterprise SaaS business. Like many others in the SaaS space, we adopted a product-led approach to growth. Pendo, however, delivers value by changing customers’ perspectives and processes based on what the data tells us.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Ari : All Right.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. Learn more about our localized branded checkout.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. 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? Definitely working on it. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company. So really well said.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear 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. What questions must you ask?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction. Authorization.

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in. Introduction.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Applying a sales methodology to your selling gives you a tried and true advantage, and enables you to plan your work and work your plan. Insight Selling. Spear Selling.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. And so, yeah, very surreal.

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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. Your Product Management team should start the Customer Development process again and interview prospective Enterprise customers to find out if they have the problems you currently solve. Real Service-Level Agreements that you can actually meet.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We’ve decided to do something a little bit different this week, and today’s episode won’t be an interview where I interview Des or vice versa, it’s just going to be a conversation between the two of us. We were definitely early. At the time, we were all based in Dublin.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). How did he see his decision-making process change post raise? Nick Mehta.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin shares his interview checklist. But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. They’re going to adopt the Shanghai processes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. It definitely needs to be very straight forward. Our goal is that there will be at least one new tactic you can take back and try with your teams tomorrow. Jessica Lin: Awesome.

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