OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting. This is most visible among publicly traded companies. Then it’s critical to sell, sell, sell.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

Sales customer insights. This is important for anyone who prospects or handles inbound calls – could be both inside sales and field sales. Guidance shouldn’t just be around high-level attributes for the prospect like revenues or number of offices but should get into factors that are specific for your proposition.

Sales Recruiting 109

Sales Recruiting Payment Services Payment Methods Sales 109

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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 159

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 159

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So I was a product manager managing the investing side of this marketplace.

Payment Solutions 110

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 110

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 105

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 168

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 168

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 121

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 121

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. CRM platforms.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 82

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 134

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 134

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. They go for the sale without caring about what the customer needs in the first place. Coach regularly.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

Sales Hiring 363

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 363

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Today, we have advice for the newbie managers out there. And, why your sales outreach should be a bit warmer. Mastering manager-ing. So we hear you’re a new manager. And the first 30 days of your manager-ship can really shape how your managees feel about you. Your top subscription news. Instead, ask questions.

Sales Recruiting 41

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 41

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Daniel, you grew to 3 million in ARR before you hired a VP of Sales. Nick : Pretty good?

Sales Hiring 241

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 241

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 158

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Enter the platform company. Happy post lunch interview. You link a bank account and then you can immediately do what you want to do.

Payments 145

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 145

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

This always surprises me, because around that size, the primary job of a CEO has to start switching to management. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Not establishing best practices around management. It’s a cargo culting, what a successful angel funded company looks like in the Valley.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 171

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB.

Sales Recruiting 139

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 139

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue.

Investment 168

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 168

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha.

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 149

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, making the culture code public prompted a very important journey for HubSpot that helped employees become more accountable. When the culture code said the company was looking to hire people who were humble or remarkable, HR and hiring managers had to live by those words. Chances are you'll hear some nuance in there.”.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2020

Like so many of our peers, we were due to attend SaaStr 2020 a few weeks back, and we’d lined up interviews with some of the incredible speakers who would have been there. We’ll be releasing those planned interviews down the line, when the time is right. Loren Padelford , General Manager, Shopify Plus.

Payment Methods 260

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 260

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Skurt was a fleet management logistics and mobility company. Harry Stebbings. Harry Hurst. Robert Vis.

SaaS Payments 219

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 219

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Jeppe Rindom. I come from management consulting and I worked with large companies for quite a few years.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

Leadership 63

Leadership Payments Scale Payment Methods 63