SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

The next frontier: cross border financing Roberto Lee, Founder & CEO (Avenue); Anderson Thees, Managing Partner (Cubo Capital); Joao Del Valle, Co-Founder & CEO (EBanx) The session starts discussing the investment service company and its various types of investments in equities, bonds, and crypto.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Ryan called it a light bulb moment out of which the idea for Cognota was born.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Rob Lopez , SVP of Sales at Justworks , one of the fastest growing businesses focused on HR including payroll, benefits and the like. The benefits of a career in finance on evaluating companies. A criteria for selecting the right early stage business to join.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. For companies who build their own billing integration, they ultimately invest substantial resources in ongoing development work and an arsenal of various third party tools to keep up with their growing needs.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Monetization. Next is monetization. What does your revenue look like? Are your tiers set up for monetization or acquisition? Why a pricing audit is essential for business.

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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. I say profitable as we are using our client's’ financial data to determine what to pay, or often not pay, in the digital advertising platforms we manage. Geoff: Someone once told me. Soren used to be a rocket scientist.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? What sort of terms make them less beneficial for the vendor? *

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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. Enter the platform company. Happy post lunch interview. But how do companies gain secure access to that data in the first place? Zach : Yeah.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Financial transparency is especially close to our hearts, which is why we’re proud to share Open Books, a series of small business owners giving us a peek inside their books in the spirit of being open about finances as well. Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5 Hitting $1 million in annual revenue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. For this article, we interviewed multiple lenders to glean their guidance and insights.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. A supply chain management system licenses a BI application.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Come drive our car, come to our store.’ You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. And what that means is that, of course, we’re going to make business decisions that make us money or that reduce cost or improve revenue. We’re awesome.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In April, we picked up where we left off in Q1 and launched our native integration with Google Play. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In April, we picked up where we left off in Q1 and launched our native integration with Google Play. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business.

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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). Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Robert Vis.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side. And we’re building a platform that you want to basically be part of. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan. So there are a lot of CIOs who do not want to be involved in that.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. You may need a third party to do these interviews for you so that customers feel like they can be completely open. And, yes, in a few of these conversations your customers might say that they have new business for you, too, but don’t you bring that up.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. FinTech is also a big area of interest both for the firm and for me personally.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. Sanj Sanampudi | Co-Founder & CEO @ Concert Finance. 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.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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. Even if the Enterprise does need a reporting tool for that specific business function, there are other reasons the product might not be a fit.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Indian SaaS enterprises deal with a wide variety of clients across finance, education, healthcare, and wellness. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The money will help the team improve the product and finance customer expansion, particularly internationally. Kim now serves as CEO and head of product, and Lee as president and head of business. The company’s SaaS technology allows businesses to collaborate, manage, analyze and report on critical internal controls data in real time.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. The way a user gets to a website is infinitely less complex than the ways a user can interact with a product. Not only that, it’s essential in businesses of all sizes. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics? Efficiency.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. How does Chen think about aligning revenue scale to your customers? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Chen. How can this be done?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. So at this stage, these companies have these amazingly predictable monthly recurring revenues.

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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? * How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Jeppe Rindom.

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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. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. Peter Yared. Michael Seibel.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Serving youth sports while social distancing [25:57].

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