The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: 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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SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

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

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.

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

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! ]

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Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 189

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.) Related guide for founders: Using Sales Conversations to Find Product-Market-Fit Drive sales and revenue This is simple. And this is a big deal.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Payment Services 86

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

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

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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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. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

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?

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

.” Maybe they send out a message on Slack, maybe they send you a text message and they say, “Hey, do we have anyone who in Talkdesk could probably be say like of a certain size, with certain number of integrations, maybe in this regional vicinity or in this country?” deal size growth. How do customers become advocates?

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Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 143

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. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

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. 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. You can clearly see what the return will be from every dollar, euro or pound invested.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services Business 131