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

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. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 116

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies.

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. costs money and 2. costs money and 2.

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Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

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. Soren: My Co-founder and I met in graduate school where we were creating algorithms for processing satellite imagery. Now he manages PPC campaigns.” Is there any truth to that? Geoff: 50%-95%!

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

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. Happy post lunch interview. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Enter the platform company. Ari : All Right. Zach : Yeah.

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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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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. 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. Be open-minded.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. Product analytics is the process by which you collect, inspect and analyze data about users’ interactions with your product. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

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: Together as a team, right? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

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. Maybe they need new products and services, or adjustments to what you’ve been offering. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. Develop subscription models. You’re there to listen.).

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Payment Methods Sales Hiring Marketing Advertising 54

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. So B2B SaaS solve needs when it comes to scheduling and time and attendance. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? Here’s what Gillian talks about: How to build a CSM team.

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

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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