FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market.

Payment Solutions 111

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? Worse, comparing average churn rates across different markets and industries will leave you mired in confusing statistics and contradicting studies. So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Let’s find out.

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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 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. It’s the center of your business. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Monetization. Next is monetization.

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

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. How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? Harry Stebbings.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

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. Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. At LendUp, it was because we were in the subprime lending space and we were trying to not screw people over, unlike the rest of the market. You had town car services before. It’s not even close.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

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. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How do they set up the process from there?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 141

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Number three is not understanding their business model. This is extremely common.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. Allison Pickens. Amarachi Ogueji. Annette Franz.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

It gives the product a competitive advantage, improves brand reputation, and propels revenue growth. Common needs are related to functionality, reliability, usability , integration , support, customization, and cost-effectiveness. Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 248

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing.

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SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 94

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Loving our podcast content?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 143

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

It is the process that guides you to a successful product release. With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. A value proposition that explains how the product solves user problems and how it differs from existing options.

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ChatGPT SaaS Payments Marketing Social Media 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. 2) Product Readiness – Do you have the essential Enterprise features? Integrations.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payments Enterprise 58

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. How to Extract Insights from Product Analytics. Speaking of which: why not learn how to boost your feature adoption with our Product Adoption School? What is Product Analytics? Not only that, it’s essential in businesses of all sizes. Product analytics is objective.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

wepay

MARCH 23, 2018

SaaS businesses tend to believe in and use aggressive growth marketing approaches – at least once they are past the phase of building product and figuring out product-market fit. But growth marketing and marketing for growth aren’t quite the same thing, and every SaaS business is unique.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Marketing SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. This is generally the first zero to $1 million in ARR, with the founder trying to find product market fit and getting those very first customers.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. After college, I went to work at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, which was my first experience in business.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

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. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. That’s way post-revenue.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

Will your existing users revolt to the change and switch to a new product? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Fred shares his thoughts on: Why digital product companies should embrace subscriptions. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 212

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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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? 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? * Loving our podcast content? What changes? *

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Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121