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. I’m an execution person.

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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. Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. 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.

Leadership 63

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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.

Payment Methods 52

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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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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Why Go Global?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7.

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SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

You may be hesitant to add the overhead for what appear to be operational roles but in my experience the right people are revenue levers, helping you sell more, faster. Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Reports into: Sales leadership.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

The impact of the pandemic was quite dramatic as we literally lost all of our revenue from one week to the other,” said Marcus Tillmann, CFO of online travel site Trivago. “We Another component was ensuring the company had the technology to conduct business and continue to support clients. Robust technology. Capital strength.

SaaS Payments 52

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

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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. EJ Brown 00:31 That was Ryan Austin, the founder and CEO of Cognota, the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . AB Testing.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

This book is an invaluable read for those building a company or in a leadership position. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. Ben also created the Cultural Leadership Fund , connecting the greatest cultural leaders to advance more African Americans into technology. How are churn and new revenue trending over time?

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A lot of us, those are all small businesses. So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. They just lack the time and the resources to take a minute and their lives are really busy.

Payment Methods 101

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. Companies tend to stick around.

Sales Hiring 164

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Here’s the payments and if you sign them within the week you’ll be really happy.” So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

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 leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership?

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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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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For example, your marketing leader may not need access to everyone’s salaries, and yet they should be the person owning your marketing funnel driving the new customer forecast. However, even with its’ new embedding capabilities, it doesn’t come close to Google Sheets in team collaboration.

Deferred Revenue 111

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. And even back then everyone was worried about getting Amazon which we still are 20 years later and many of us are still getting Amazon, but he said, “My pump business is not going to get Amazon.

Sales Recruiting 170

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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). billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones. We were profitable.

Scale 100

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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.

Sales Recruiting 137

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

And what that has resulted in is that you have CIOs and their leadership teams are basically involved in architecting systems across the company and what those basically mean. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side. So there are a lot of CIOs who do not want to be involved in that.

Technical Advisors 153

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

SaaS Payments 19

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

Scale 100

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

Businesses no longer dictate the way they talk to customers. Your customers dictate the way they want to talk to a business. Robert Vis: Businesses have to reach their end users on a growing amount of end points. Our platform abstracts the complexity of a really difficult experience and makes it simple.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

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. Harry Stebbings: Oh it was so nice to see you in person, but I do want to start today with some context.

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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. Kim: At a lot of larger organizations, risk is a very critical component as they operate the business.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Employees on variable compensation will receive their base salary in typical payroll payments, while their variable component will be paid at a separate pay period (e.g. Queue the picture of the stereotypical sales person on stage with a massive check. That is to say the goals (revenue, profit, customers, etc.)

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