OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Member Spotlight Series: An Interview with Dominic Ballinger, Director of FP&A and Integration at Sage. Typically, we work with CFOs, chief people officers, and senior finance and HR executives.”. How do you use benchmarking, and the BenchmarkEngine to help with your business? Small to mid-sized service companies.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 Retargeting.

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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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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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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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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Revenue Churn: How to Calculate, Track & Improve. Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments. How to Use Customer Feedback to Fuel Your Business Growth. From funding your business to managing your expenses, these articles are all about the financial side of running a startup. Learn more here ! Reduce churn.

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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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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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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. Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry. 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.

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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. With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., What happens now?

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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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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As an example: consider an analytics company that provides tightly defined, world-class reporting for a specific business function. For organizations with less than 500 employees, this solution absolutely nails it. It’s just right for business unit leaders because they don’t have access to the insights they need to steer the business.

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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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Chart Mogul

JUNE 6, 2019

With only 2 people on our Finance & Operations team, we have to be smart about how we use our resources. Finance & Operations. The first thing that comes to mind when you think of a SaaS business? For us the software we use is the keystone that allows us to scale what we do. Exciting, right? Probably not.

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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

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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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. 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.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. So, understanding what they do within your product is critically important for: improving new user Acquisition improving user Activation maximizing and increasing Revenue improving user Retention encouraging current users to refer you to new users, etc, etc.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The money will help the team improve the product and finance customer expansion, particularly internationally. We started off building a solution for a particular financial compliance program.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

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. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms.

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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. Nick Mehta.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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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. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril. Jump to video.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

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. Putting the customer at the heart of it all.

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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. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. So at this stage, these companies have these amazingly predictable monthly recurring revenues. Harry Stebbings. Robert Vis.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. 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? * What changes? *

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