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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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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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. Richman’s former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams.

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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.”. Billing may not be one of the most exhilarating parts of your company, but it is one of the most important parts of your business…it is how you get paid. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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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. Geoff: 50%-95%!

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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?

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 145

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. 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. What made you want to be a part of this consultancy?

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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. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. 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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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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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.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below.

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Payment Methods Scale Social Media Airlines 206

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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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. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 212

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. 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? * Missed the session?

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. And so really it became a bad habit. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time?

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