Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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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. Manual processes first. Our team is in Room 111.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It They were acquired by private equity.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Fortunately, for any pain point you can think of, someone has carefully crafted a best-in-class subscription business tool to solve the problem. Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

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. Monetization. Next is monetization.

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

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Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Some of these folks will likely be developers. What Are Coding Bootcamps?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. This episode is sponsored by Linode. .”

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, less because people value my accounting knowledge [1] but rather because people are curious about the CAC impact of such deals and how to compensate sales on them. The question on my mind is how do I look at this from a new ARR bookings, ending ARR, CAC, and sales compensation perspective?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Missed the session?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

Recurring Business Revenue. Plus, since your customers pay the same price each month, a subscription box offers some degree of stability in your revenue stream, which helps you predict your finances more accurately. Develop a Business Plan. billion by 2025. Improved Demand Forecasting. Company Overview.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. And finally, David Cancel drops the mistakes he says will tank even the best business idea. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach.

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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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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Conversion rates can vary widely by channel and lots of poor traffic isn’t worth the effort. Spifs or sales incentives If you are considering a distribution or sales channel partnership, spiffs or sales promotion incentive funds ensure that sales teams working for your partner are paid to sell your product.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this guide, I will teach you the fundamentals of Lead Qualification for inbound and outbound sales development, and give you actionable steps you can take to maximize your Revenue per Lead. Sales and Marketing Alignment is a trending topic and the role of Sales Development has been growing fast.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Seeking financing from friends and family. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. After all, that monthly recurring revenue is the engine that makes a SaaS business work.

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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. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To develop excellent customer experiences , consultants have worked hard to assist businesses in recognizing the magnitude of customer scores. The objective is to develop a strong customer base. The possibility that a client would renew their membership is perhaps the outcome chosen by one team. Boost renewal rates?

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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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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Agile finance teams don’t have time to wait around as a brand new system gets deployed. .

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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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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

You take all of your assets , liabilities , revenues , expenses , investments, etc. These projections are built on many assumptions, from your hiring plan to your expected monthly recurring revenue (MRR) growth. However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad!

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. . Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This wide net will primarily grow your web traffic, not sales – but that in itself is an important step in moving up the SEO ranks. For other businesses, an expansive blog-style platform reaps the full benefits that content marketing has to offer. Baremetrics makes it easy to collect and visualize all of your sales data.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2022

2) Hire a Team of Believers. Before starting Nike, Phil Knight had two different sales jobs. He recounts that he barely made any sales. And so were all other early Nike team members. Hire a team of believers. Collison brothers talk about how Stripe’s primary appeal i.e. easy integration was aimed at developers.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

Big Data – disrupted the traditional decision-making patterns of businesses. 3D printing – disrupted the production process of many manufacturing industries. Blockchain – disrupting banking and finance for businesses. Mobile Payments – disrupting the transactions between businesses and customers.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. 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.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

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