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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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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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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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A startup growing at 15% per month will double revenues after five months. Glen Mello, a managing director at Silicon Valley Bank, which lends quite a bit to startups, explains how his firm lends in this interview conducted by Jay Azcuno at NextView. Debt can delay the timing of the next raise and reduce dilution.

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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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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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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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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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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. We had about $ 25 ,000 to $ 100,000 in recurring revenue at that time a month.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. How do we basically accelerate revenue? Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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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? The Finance & Operations Team at ChartMogul. These are the tools that help us scale our work. Exciting, right?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

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. Not only that, it’s essential in businesses of all sizes. Efficiency.

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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

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. 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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