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. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

During this period I’ve learnt more than I ever thought possible about the SaaS business and my personal growth has accelerated with each passing year. The number of employees when things get particularly troublesome are three, 10, 30, 100, 300 and 1,000 - before company headcount hits these milestones you’ll need to rethink how you operate.

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The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

More simply, Contentful provides customers with a service that will deliver images, words, and other content to their applications and websites around the world, quickly. as Twilio served the communications market and Stripe the payments space, Contentful wants to handle the world’s digital content.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. There’s a lot to consider with an outbreak of this sort: company travel, working in close proximity, susceptibility, personal health issues that expand beyond the virus itself. Take the pressure off live attendance.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). And more importantly – which ones are really going to deliver a return on investment for your precious (and limited) budget? Look for tools that can scale with you.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. Despite the exponential growth they’ve gone through, Stripe have been refreshingly conservative about how quickly they grown the company from a headcount perspective. We just were never going to get that headcount. As you grow, they grow.

Scale 162

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

We started investing a tremendous amount on the enterprise side. There are a couple of things that we need to consider in thinking about like, okay, I’m now in a position where I know I need to invest, essentially I’m hiring customer marketing. We invested a lot in a local event marketing team. deal size growth.

Scale 146

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

I worked with Jack Welch of GE for a couple of months to get his online MBA program off the ground, and when I started my first company way back in the day, Jack came to Boston to do one of his conferences. Now at around the 51st person that we’re bringing in, it just doesn’t seem that they have the same passion that we do for the business.

Scale 172

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.

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