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.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly. The "Revenues" line shows your end-of-month MRR for the respective month. Revenues" tab The model assumes that you have three pricing tiers.

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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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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

It’s a simple calculation to help you quickly and easily understand the health of a SaaS business. The rule states that a businesses annual revenue growth rate, plus its profit should equal 40%. Looking at these numbers as a ratio helps you understand how effective a business is at making money.

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The Angel VC

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. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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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. How the hell does that happen? We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

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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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The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

If you have a SaaS startup with a higher-touch sales model where revenue growth is largely driven by sales headcount, the plan needs to be modified accordingly. For non-SaaS business models the template needs to be modified more heavily or may not be useful at all, other than that it shows my way of thinking around business planning.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

Related guide for founders: Using Sales Conversations to Find Product-Market-Fit Drive sales and revenue This is simple. When you combine the founder’s willingness to go the extra mile with this awareness of customer pain points, sales magic happens — and revenue follows. Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive.

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The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

as Twilio served the communications market and Stripe the payments space, Contentful wants to handle the world’s digital content. Because Tiger didn’t invest in a $175 million round at a new, higher price for Contentful on the back of mediocre results. Pull out your pencils and come up with your own revenue guesses based on that.

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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. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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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. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? Companies tend to stick around.

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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?” We invested a lot in a local event marketing team.

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