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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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 139

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. 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. Now Hire Sales.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. sales tax, VAT, or GST) that needs to be collected and how those taxes get remitted.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

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 even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

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). Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??) Look for tools that can scale with you. HubSpot – CRM.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. There was not a lot of outbound sales or marketing.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 167

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

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Customer reference program went from something that was nice to have and important to absolutely critical to our new business sales cycle.

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Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 146

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Role: Also known as Sales Engineer, but I prefer to call it Product Specalist. This is a dedicated role that helps distribute product knowledge across a fast-scaling sales and customer success team.

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Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

So, LTV (lifetime value) and CAC (customer acquisition cost) increase quite a bit, your profit margin increases, and you can then reinvest all those dollars back into sales and other growth initiatives that are compounding. It’s especially great if you get payment up front and then know that customer is profitable from that point on. .

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Retention Payment Methods SaaS Payments Outsourced Development 61

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

Smart companies, and sales professionals, are leveraging their integration ecosystems to create more sales deals and attract higher valuations. And while Giphy is a timely B2C example, the good news for SaaS sales professionals is that all these effects are amplified even more in a B2B context. Shaking the Partner Money Tree.

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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