FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So Leave the technical challenges of selling around the world to us.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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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. Those teams really need a dashboard, they need an online user experience with a workflow.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

She’s worked in product from early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies like Rackspace and Square, a company with the sensitive task of handling customers’ money. I went into the startup world, figured out product management, and then came to Square about two years ago. ” Michelle: I know.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. Without sales, your startup dies. Below, I’ll share common pitfalls and avoidance techniques in four fundamental areas of startup sales based on my experience. They get salesy.

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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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Instead of selling face-to-face, inside sales utilizes all the communication tools that modern salespeople have at their disposal: Phone. It may be done over the phone, Skype, email, web conference…. Outside sales is the sales of products and services through in-person, face-to-face interactions. CRM platforms. And much more.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . But top performers have begun to far outpace their peers, especially for startups with less than $10M in ARR, and the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ has gotten wider than ever. OpenView has been tracking growth rates by ARR scale for four years running.

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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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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Differences and similarities between Latin American/Brazilian startups and Silicon Valley startups are discussed, with a focus on challenges related to data ownership, regulatory and intellectual property rights, and fostering innovation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. The ideal executive champion is the person who most acutely feels the pain of the problem remaining unsolved, is held responsible internally for solving the problem, and has the budget to solve it.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? I’ll go easy on you.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The process and fee structure may differ for different types of payments depending on which service you choose. Some services offer unlimited payroll processing, while others limit the number of times you can issue payments every month. So, carefully consider how often you need to send payments when making your final decision.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. Without sales, your startup dies. Below, I’ll share common pitfalls and avoidance techniques in four fundamental areas of startup sales based on my experience. They get salesy.

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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. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. How are we going to do that?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

I’ve gone through a mix of emotions, reliving the insane 10-year journey that came out of a young Max being naively intellectually curious about how to scale sales at a startup. Beginning: I began my career at a startup in San Francisco called Udemy. We brought in bigger named sponsors and grew the brand beyond startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. 10 years of making internet business personal.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The real-life examples of 3 companies that use online courses (that they charge a premium for) to educate customers, lower churn, and grow their revenue. Nico is an online marketer and the founder of Launch Space. The graph shows how payment plans impact usage. Online courses are a huge (and growing) industry.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

When thinking through your pricing model and your customer success strategy, it’s worth trying to engineer negative churn into your startup.”. Quantitative Data Gathering: Website and Product Data. Qualitative Data Gathering: Surveys and Exit Interviews. Check out the interview here. But don’t stop there. What Is Churn?

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

The real-life examples of 3 companies that use online courses (that they charge a premium for) to educate customer, lower churn, and grow their revenue. The graph shows how payment plans impact usage. Online courses are a huge (and growing) industry. The problem with SaaS is getting people to see the value in your product.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. But he explains that what happens on the website is such a small and early part of the entire customer relationship. What was the first thing you bought online? Jump to highlights. But sign-ups went down.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

We’re focusing on how to win in the new sales era: new go-to-market strategies, deeper funnel insights and actionable takeaways for your entire organization from revenue leaders at high-growth startups and fortune 500 companies. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers.

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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. We were building websites that “do stuff,” and a lot of our work with tech start-ups was in support of their advertising campaigns. Geoff: What was your familiarity level with Google Adwords at that time?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. I just think that definition of responsibility will change where they may simply be a sales and marketing person who’s focused on new logos, but immediately is handed to success from that point forward. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future.

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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. They are a phone system designed for the modern sales team. For now, let’s listen to our interview with Rob Lopez from Justworks.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

April Dunford, author of Obviously Awesome, mentor, and startup executive, talked about positioning for growth and how to make your market category work for you. Some key takeaways include personalizing your outreach, keeping subject lines and emails short, and A/B testing to optimize. Tune in live below ?? December 12, 2019.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. From my own experience of joining the finance department of a startup in year 10 with ca.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Krish Subramanian. So if we start on the first type of SaaS businesses that sell to SMBs and often one to five person teams, and they likely will always sell to those types of teams. What is the process to do it efficiently?

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. costs money and 2.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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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”. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. In saas marketing, you generally use online marketing strategies to generate more leads and conversions in your saas business. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Another solid one: Forgetting to interview fellow leaders in your space. At 2x its final private valuation and a triumph for investors, Visa will now own financial services API startup Plaid. Why did Visa scoop up the startup for such a pretty penny? Why did Visa scoop up the startup for such a pretty penny?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

My personal and professional backgrounds contributed to my tendency to see the world through many mental models. I wanted to be a neuroscientist in college because I was so interested in the combination of the scientific method and the study of human behaviors. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. Covid has poured gas on an already raging ecommerce phenomenon.

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