SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! So how can you leverage that product’s success to obtain the valuation and funding you need to scale? ” Was obsessed with mathematics, went to college at 16, became an engineer. ” I’m like, “I actually grew up on a farm.”

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Scaling sales during the pandemic. How to build a winning sales team. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. Developing A Winning Sales Team [16:24]. It provides the information that helps me succeed, translating down into my sales team as I’m coaching and mentoring them. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 103

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 103

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? If something bad happens, you’re going to have to cut your burn, probably. There is one thing, I love this quote and it’s a little bit of a crude quote, not that it’s bad language-. What do you do with that lightly toxic person on your team?

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Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 204

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And I didn’t even have words for these functions at the time.

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SMB Scale Startup Marketplace as a Service 179

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 158

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 158

SmartKarrot

JULY 5, 2021

Role: Director, Customer Success (Federal) Location: Arlington, VA, US Organization: Decision Lens As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage the Federal customer success team through recognition, training, mentoring, feedback and goal-setting. Provide clear strategic and tactical direction to the team.

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Customer Success Sales Recruiting Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 10

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. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. What’s not to like?

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. Where do most teams go wrong in implementing the role out of their CS strategy? Does Bridget believe CS teams should be involved in the upsell process?

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 194

Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Post your team photos like Zappos. Don’t Just Promote Products and Services. Bombarding your fans with 10 poor-quality updates in an hour. Most people form groups around: Their brand/business Their products/services A specific lifestyle e.g. a book club or a journalling club Specific topics e.g. a content marketing group.

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Social Media Software Review Branding Engagement 145

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

SaaS Payments 230

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

Scale 141

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Data 96

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Patrick Arippol kickstarted his professional path with an engineering degree, followed by an MBA from Stanford. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. Diego Cordovez, CMO, Meetime.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. This made for a great vision, but was practically untenable from a data or scale perspective. Sounds expensive. Let’s cover each below.

Scale 139

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Culture helps a company define itself, attract the right team members and customers, and differentiate in the marketplace. It’s the “why” behind the mission and the glue that holds everyone together in good times and bad. Culture is also tricky because there’s no one-size-fits-all way to define, cultivate or scale it.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture 98

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 119

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Maria and Anthony present the CEO and CMO playbook of how the CEO and CMO can partner with other members of the team to grow sales and marketing. Maria : Not too bad. You see this headline here and it doesn’t sound so bad, 43 months. It’s the entire executive team. Want to see more content like this?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. It just made it a lot easier for us to scale up Salsify as we found success.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 250

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As the book Blue Ocean Strategy notes, blue oceans have always been a key engine of growth for companies and entire economies. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

Strategy 90

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 90

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Why you need a customer success team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Churn Scale 108

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 191

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As the book Blue Ocean Strategy notes, blue oceans have always been a key engine of growth for companies and entire economies. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Prior to joining the world of venture, Karen was a Senior Director at Apple and before Apple, Karen spent an incredible 9 years at Box as a founding member of the executive team, where she was responsible for defining and leading Box’s Industry GTM strategy. What were Karen’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at Box?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. the percentage of customers who continue to use and resubscribe to your service over time) is your golden ticket to profits.

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Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

yoursales

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 52

yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Which problems are the most pressing for your and your B2B sales team? Which processes can and need to be powered by technology for you and your team to sell more? Trends which MAY impact your Sales Stack in 2023 Sales is in constant development. What customers want is help solving problems. Being a B2B buyer isn't easy.

Scale 86

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Outsourced Development 86

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: When evaluating clients, the biggest thing Bailey and her team look for is whether the organization is willing to give up control. Find the people who are 10-out-of-10 passionate about your product or service , because they will evangelize your brand more powerfully than you can do alone.

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Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Marketplace as a Service Investment 116

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. That’s not a bad start. We work with mostly modern teams. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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