The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

Contentful, formerly known as a UI-free content management system (headless CMS), now views itself in a broader light. as Twilio served the communications market and Stripe the payments space, Contentful wants to handle the world’s digital content. In more practical terms, Contentful doesn’t want to help companies build apps.

API abstraction (application programming interface 52

API abstraction (application programming interface Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. Well, sometimes investing heavily in the pursuit of growth is the right move for a company, especially in a winner-takes-all market, but at other times, particularly in more mature markets, monetization and profit will likely be the right call.

SaaS Payments 131

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services Business 131

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. If you like it, tweet it! ]

Startup 189

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 189

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. Here’s an example of how an RBF loan facility can work: We invest $300k with a 36-month payback term. This is how it works.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

New data about buyer psychology in B2B software purchases from Datanyze found that more than 50% of buyers would respond to cold pitches from people they know in person or from LinkedIn.) Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive. You’ve got the connections and authority. And this is a big deal. Need a proof point?

Sales Hiring 86

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Payment Services 86

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. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But for some reason this is precisely what the 99% of software companies are doing when they implement the SDR/AE sales model. We just were never going to get that headcount. Was it enjoyable?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

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. It’s almost like a point system where if you do this, then you get Y.

Scale 146

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 146

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And this is highlighting something that we’re really seeing across the board.

Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 168

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But Tara Bryant, SVP of Sales at Pipedrive, thinks this is a mistake if you don’t have the right processes, systems, and metrics in place first. When I started, they had a big growth plan as far as headcount, but they were a little bit looser on processes and cadences and things like that framework I was talking about.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172