SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 158

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Starting as VP of Sales, in less than two years he became CEO.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. Micro Acquire. No middlemen.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Popularized by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, the invention wasn’t all that complicated: issue bonds with very high interest rates and correspondingly high risk, and use that capital to finance the wholesale acquisition of mismanaged, inefficient, and sclerotic companies. Inside sales? The curves simply do not meet.

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VP of Engineering AI Payment Methods Generative AI 91

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To start the series, Ian and his guest Andy Meadows, Head of Partner Success Management for Payrix, dive into the topic of resourcing and what you need to consider when it comes to selling payments, boarding and underwriting, service and support, and development and tech. Andy Meadows We’ll kick it off with sales.

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Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Q&A portion of the webinar covered topics including how to overcome budget objections, promote CS wins across the organization, secure budget at the same rate as sales, and much more. My job is to continually inform and share knowledge that’s going out in the marketplace. Now we have a name for this. CFO is on it.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Headcount Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

“70% of tech companies can expect to fail – usually within just 20 months of their first financing round” ChartMogul founder and CEO Nick Franklin sat down with Intercom’s Kate O’Hanlon to discuss the ups and downs of hypergrowth. That meant producing useful content, not thinly veiled sales pitches. Poor marketing.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

This means that PayFacs need to conduct a thorough risk analysis of their sub-merchants before onboarding them so they are screened against terror financing or money laundering. Reputational risks Risks associated with things like data breaches, poor customer service, company controversies, etc. Velocity checks.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Hire a consultant, hands down. In a nutshell, they can give you expert opinions, analysis, and recommendations that can help ensure a more objective-based approach to grow your business and maximize sales – all at the same time. Unfortunately, your in-house team doesn’t have the required expertise to push through change.

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Consulting Sales Hiring Technical Review Sales Recruiting 132

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Luke Rogers, the Vice President of Sales at Instabase. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase. Learn how modern sales teams with deals, win deals now. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 99

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 99

Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although bookkeepers and accountants share some duties, for example preparing tax returns or producing the end of year financial statements, a bookkeeper’s main duty is keeping the basic, daily finances in order. This is usually accomplished with the double-entry system of accounting discussed below. Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Business 105

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel. Kaitlin: You’re the General Manager HubSpot’s Service Hub. Customer service as a model for growth.

Scale 188

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2021

Do you love chasing down the sale? What about using data analysis to create sales strategies? Revenue operations (RevOps) is a centralized org within a company that supports all revenue-generating business operations including Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, Customer Success Ops, and systems management. Unified data problems.

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Scale Technical Review Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 101

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This plan should include new marketing ideas and specific steps to boost online sales. Besides overseeing your own team, the Ecommerce Manager is also responsible to work with other departments, like the product team, operations, and customer service. Should your Ecommerce Manager be in-house or outsourced?

Payment Methods 79

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions Outsourced Development 79

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

Payment Solutions 111

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

Buffer Resources

MAY 2, 2024

These niches include:   Making money online, digital marketing, personal finance, educational content (tutorials, courses, lectures, etc.), Get sponsorships and offer User-Generated Content User-generated Content or UGC is any content a creator produces about a brand or its products or services. tech, cars, and gadgets. 

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Payments Payment Methods Social Media AI Search 82

Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2022

Kathleen is SVP of Marketing at Tradeswell , where she’s on a mission to empower a new generation of digital-first marketplace brands. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. This episode of The Sales Hacker Podcast is brought to you by Outreach. powered by Sounder.

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Revenue Sales Hiring Marketing Marketplace as a Service 82

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You can think of Horizontal SaaS as broad-based tech that is industry agnostic; a sales person at a Cybersecurity company can use HubSpot the same way a sales person at a Health Supplements company might use it. But it’s not always clear when and how to find the right finance leader.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

PieSync is an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) specializing in customer data. An integration service like PieSync, then, helps save manual labor and eliminate inconsistencies by automatically syncing data across apps.". He went on to talk about how growth is not possible without finance and operations.

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 40

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. And so we hired somebody who had a lot of experience and could recommend ways to build the team. It’s a lot about building those flows. Walk me through how you built it out from there.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A sales rep completes their proposal and it’s automatically routed to the right manager for review and approval. Not only is that rep moving on to their next task, the pending approval is queued up exactly where it needs to be for the manager. Workflow Management Software. There’s really no limit to the applications.

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Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 131

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Collin Cadmus.

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Sales Hiring Development Team Review Technical Review Sales 56

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most of you who ever have done enterprise sales, you know enterprise sales are spreadsheet-driven. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. There can be many, many winners when you have compounding interest from users and from services. We can do the private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 145

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We like to say we invest early, way too early or questionably legal early, and we take that plunge with the founder, very early on, and we do participate in follow on financing. And Cameo for me is one which is a marketplace and now very much in the like the at home entertainment its like a whole lot of fun.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 141

How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Rather, they are powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies performing HR functions – hiring, production management – more honest and efficient. Here are the best HR Management Software tools for startups to make your life a little more relaxed. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Payments 52

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Across social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube, standard placements for display ads are: Stories Timelines Video feeds Right column (Facebook) Marketplace (Instagram) Explore section Messenger inbox and sponsored messages. Sales will always be a top priority. Is it increasing sales?

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

And so we’re a great experience for your employees but also for your finance teams who are trying to control costs and save money. Meagen, sales. Launch it to our customers, launch it to the sales team, launch it to prospects.” What did we need for our sales team from an enablement standpoint and our CSMs?

Travel 174

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 174

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Manages your campaigns on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, Pinterest, Blog, Facebook and more. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. HypeAuditor displays statistics for 100 million profiles and detects fake followers & accounts.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 157

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Karen Page: I started my career in sales and marketing. Or how the customer service team is going to deal with companies that aren’t renewing as planned? We can just, “Of course, we’ve seen other people who have hired a first time VP of sales that didn’t work out. What’s working for you?

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 171

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. We had a marketplace payer solution. That’s been a major focus. We felt like there’s an opportunity to do it again with all the learnings we have and come out with a new platform.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 135

SmartKarrot

JUNE 25, 2021

No business can survive in the long run without a loyal customer base for its services or products. As its name should communicate, the Customer Development model focuses on developing customers for the product or service your startup is building. Is there a sales cycle you know of? Customer development is important.

Development 10

Development SaaS Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 10

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

I was interested in starting a company from scratch, and I had actually managed the corporate card at SoFi, as the VP of finance. If you think about Intercom: when you guys started, Intercom got traction not because the aggregate spend on customer service software was growing or shrinking. Level One is marketing, sales or BD.

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36