SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. It can make the difference between needing to make deep cuts when the business climate gets rocky versus making slight adjustments. It doesn’t really apply to startups.

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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. If you’re setting yourself up for hypergrowth, the margin for error is very thin.

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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. There’s some truth to this: Some startups will claim profitability, for example, only to gently backpedal and explain that what they meant was really adjusted EBITDA, say, or positive operating cash flow.

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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). Ready to take your startup to the next level? Best practices for choosing the right tools for your startup tech stack. Look for tools that can scale with you.

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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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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. If you’re setting yourself up for hypergrowth, the margin for error is very thin.

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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. Slack, for instance, grew their sales headcount by 66% year over year, compared to 31% for other functions.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup.

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SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

But, I’ve found when you actually look at the work to be done inside of high-growth startups there are some gaps that don’t always fit into a common org chart. . There are a handful of less obvious roles that can make an immediate positive impact on almost any high-growth startup. ” or “Can I wire payment?”

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. We’re just not there yet, so I don’t want to really grow headcount yet.

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