Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. For example, we heard a variety of answers to the “build vs. buy” question from our interviews.

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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.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . The first call with a candidate is no longer an interview; it instead needs to be 100% focused on setting the hook.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this episode of SaaS Open Mic, I speak with Matt Lerner, the founder and CEO of Startup Core Strengths. Later, … In this episode of SaaS Open Mic, I speak with Matt Lerner, the founder and CEO of Startup Core Strengths. Later, as a VC at 500 Startups, he led dozens of early-stage investments.

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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?” Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted?

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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

JULY 9, 2019

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? There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. For example, in Kenya. Can they be done there? First of all, capital.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Neil Ringers. Revenue Grid, as an app exchange partner, has a lot of credibility in the Salesforce world.

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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. We hit it pretty hard.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing your SaaS. Running a startup. 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. Customer Research: A Guide To The Ultimate Startup Cheat Code. 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Track & Grow Your Business. Pricing your SaaS.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. .” It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. costs money and 2.

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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 Janz: So what does it take to raise capital in SaaS?

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 30, 2019

He’s worked with everyone from Fortune 500 companies to startups helping them develop content marketing strategies that align with their business goals. 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.

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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. Even further up market and in my past engagements with Working Planet, there are a number of challenges related to paid search management that I’ve felt first hand and still don’t see a great solution to.

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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. In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” But motivators are the flip side of that coin: What is a positive that would make your buyers more likely to convert?

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Dave make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? *

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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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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast is an interview based show where I bring in small business entrepreneurs who are killing it online.". 2Checkout—online payment processing—hosts a webinar on October 24 with Conversion Optimization Expert Shannon MacLeod , to rundown the essentials of conversion optimization. Noah Kagan Presents.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Inside sales may be used by any sales team, but it’s one of the top sales models in B2B, especially for SaaS and tech. Outside sales is the sales of products and services through in-person, face-to-face interactions. Armed with today’s sales enablement tools, Skype, and Zoom, a large portion of the job can be done from the office.

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 Daily updates of the index can be found in your subscriber newsletter each day, so be sure to check back to see what’s up in the B2B SaaS market—for better informed decisions on market spend, sales forecasting, and growth choices. I'll tell ya just why.).

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Another solid one: Forgetting to interview fellow leaders in your space. Here's an article we wrote on trends amongst successful SaaS CEOs that can help. At 2x its final private valuation and a triumph for investors, Visa will now own financial services API startup Plaid. Again, it’s all about feedback.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. I was recently interviewed by my friend Steve Lurie, who’s the Chief Engagement Officer of B2B Rocks. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

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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.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth. Annette Franz. Christina Crawford Kosmowski.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? When is the right time?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. Harry Stebbings: And so with that, I’m super excited to welcome Yousuf Khan, serial CIO, startup and VC advisor. As you know, I’ve spoken to many of our mutual friends in the VC, in the startup ecosystem. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company. So really well said.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Looking for an effective user engagement analysis tool and wondering if Lou Assist is the best option for your SaaS company? We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. If you’re developing a mobile app then consider alternatives like Appcues or Pendo.

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