SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Scale 228

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

Hiring a sales team too soon can lead to issues like: Your team tries to sell a product to a market that doesn’t need it or want it. Your company incurs unnecessary expenses before figuring out product-market fit. Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive. Don’t I need to spend money to make money?

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Payment Services 85

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

In the simplest terms, capital efficiency means growing profitably , without overinvesting to land customers and drive revenue. For example, a 1:1 capital efficiency ratio means you’re earning one dollar for every dollar you invest into company growth. Revenue per Employee. That’s a revenue treadmill.

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Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 52

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

We invest in business software companies as they’re scaling through the awkward teenage years of that expansion stage—but they’ve found product-market fit, they’ve found some customers, they’ve got a great product, and they’re really ready to 10x their customer base in their teens. “I See you there.

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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). With more and more tools out there catering to startups, how do you know which ones are really necessary for your business? Look for tools that can scale with you.

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Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process? To find out, we sat down with Jeanne de Witte , Head of North America Revenue & Growth at Stripe. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

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. How the hell does that happen? And working in the property management industry?

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145