SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

SaaS renewals can be a breath-holding moment. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service. TL;DR SaaS renewals includes the process of renewing a subscription to an online-hosted software service.

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

While remote work is all the rage these days, there is still very much a need for on-site services, particularly industries like construction, healthcare, utilities, and telecommunications. This is where field service management (FSM) come in. Who needs my service? – Who are the customers already doing business with you?

Payment Solutions 88

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. Sales is a brutal profession.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

How does a free trial work in SaaS and help me get customers, you may ask as a new SaaS founder. TL;DR Free trials let customers test a product or service over a limited period of time. TL;DR Free trials let customers test a product or service over a limited period of time. Then this guide is for you!

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FastSpring

AUGUST 8, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Braden Steel , Sr. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Video Transcript David Vogelpohl (FastSpring) (00:04) Hello everyone! You mentioned B2B SaaS or video games. What if there were a better way?

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Christoph Janz: So what does it take to raise capital in SaaS?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. Offer self-service support with an in-app knowledge base. And your role at a customer success team?

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Outseta

DECEMBER 17, 2017

By Geoff Roberts 10 min read When you say “Blockchain” or “Ethereum” to people who live their lives outside the spheres of tech or highly speculative investments, you often get confused or simply apathetic reactions, to which I say… understandable. Colony is building a platform on which to build open organizations. Geoff Roberts: Hi, Jack.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Find everything involved with SaaS funding, from the types of funding to navigating the investment process (with first-hand lessons and insight from SaaS VCs). Securing SaaS funding can be exciting but nerve-racking – understandably, it may be the starting point for significant growth. More likely to take risks.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin shares his interview checklist. But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out. Jason Lemkin: Unicorn generation, how does that inform your thinking in terms of types of investments? I’m really passionate about seed investing. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. Offer self-service support with an in-app knowledge base. And your role at a customer success team?

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SaaS Payments Strategy SaaS Payment Solutions 91

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction. The operations of a business including sales tax, VAT filings, billing, order processing, and online payments.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Full Interview: Audio Only Full Interview: Video 3 Mergers and Acquisitions Insights From Carl Hargreaves 2 Main Reasons Brands Acquire Other Companies While there may be any combination of features about a business that make it attractive to buyers, it usually boils down to two main reasons a buyer is looking to buy in the first place.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. It starts with self service. But that’s not how we live.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level. We really do touch every organization in the business, which consists of product and engineering, services, sales, marketing, product, and people,” he explains. “So And much more!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Improve customer communication by training your customer service team. Customer communication is the best way to nurture existing customer relationships through the process of customer relationship management. Instead of outsourcing the entire writing process to AI, you can simply use this technology to make your writing better.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. Everyone needs to understand the investment and time-frames associated with this decision. Many SaaS products are successful in the SMB market because their function and process choices are built for the customer. Bonus Takeaway.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And then on the other side, once you have that, you’ve basically turned the internet or turned people’s phones or whatever it is into a button that gives people what they wan, and I think that model applies whether you’re thinking about SaaS companies, whether you’re thinking about consumer.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. Product analytics is the process by which you collect, inspect and analyze data about users’ interactions with your product. In the SaaS world, the overwhelming majority of your users’ interactions with your company take place through your product. But look out for vanity metrics !

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We analyzed the data from over 502 B2B sales teams and hosted interviews with dozens of market leaders. more of their time browsing SaaS sites. It might also mean investing in new tools. Investing in a new, more digital strategy after COVID isn’t just about providing employees with the right training, though.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Zuora’s 2019 Subscription Economy Index reports average customer churn rates across a number of different industries, ranging from Business Services on the low end (16.2%

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The problem with SaaS is getting people to see the value in your product. In this guide, I’ll cover why one of the biggest problems impacting the growth of your SaaS company is churn. As a general rule of thumb, the higher the rate of consumption the more value they are seeing from your service.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: My Co-founder and I met in graduate school where we were creating algorithms for processing satellite imagery. The financial outcome from that investment is very clear, very predictable.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

We invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and you know we live and breathe enterprise tech, by how much we nerd out on sales completely, with all of our enterprise portfolio companies. Anything around collections, anything around having customers apply on time is really a company and process problem that needs to be solved.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing your SaaS. These articles are good if you’re in the early stages of starting a SaaS company and can help you get off on the right foot. 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Track & Grow Your Business. Pricing your SaaS. There are a lot of ways to price your SaaS. 5 Ways to Prevent Involuntary Churn in SaaS.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Rob Lopez , SVP of Sales at Justworks , one of the fastest growing businesses focused on HR including payroll, benefits and the like. For now, let’s listen to our interview with Rob Lopez from Justworks. Sales Hacker Podcast—Sponsored by Aircall and Outreach.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The problem with SaaS is getting people to see the value in your product. In this guide, I’ll cover why one of the biggest problems impacting the growth of your SaaS company is churn. As a general rule of thumb, the higher the rate of consumption the more value they are seeing from your service.

SaaS Payments 52

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