FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Now as a successful international business, TestDome has been with FastSpring through all of it, and even when other payment platforms launched intriguing new products, Mario never saw a good reason to leave FastSpring. Our customers have been quite happy with the service.” Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Braintree offers it.

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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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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 ‘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.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. 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. Want to see more content like this? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Now, in Part B, we cover capturing and defending some portion of the value you generate.

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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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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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 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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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. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Ryan Austin 01:00 Sure.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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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. The problem with SaaS is getting people to see the value in your product. The graph shows how payment plans impact usage. This is a guest post by Nico Prins.

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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 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. It starts with self 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 company is focused on “putting the math behind advertising for data-driven, profitable results.”

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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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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Move Faster & Scale Successfully. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily.

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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. This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I said yes.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

It seems like while there’s been a lot of discussion in the SaaS community about the right time to bring on a VP of Sales or VP of Marketing (with the best advice coming from Jason himself¹), the finance department hasn’t attracted as much attention yet. just one or two days before Jason unleashed his tweetstorm.

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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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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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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Now, what's happening in B2B SaaS news? Jay Nathan , B2B SaaS retention, expansion, and scaling expert, says: “We are all in sales.”. I'll tell ya just why.). 7 day +0.41% | ??

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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. If you missed episode 33, check it out here: PODCAST 33: How to Grow and Scale a Company in the Digital Age w/ Ilir Sela. What You’ll Learn.

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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. Anita Toth. Annette Franz.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail. First, in this post, I want to outline what a VP of Sales in a SaaS company actually does. In sum -> Learning and understanding how to maximize the revenue per lead.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. We hear from Tara Bryant again, on moving upmarket.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And having run these … Well, run a couple companies and worked at another company, I realized that I worked just as hard and I tried just as many things at my first company, Grasswire, as we do now at Lambda School, but Lambda School does more revenue in a month than the first company could even raise from VCs.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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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? Harry Stebbings. Rob Gonzalez.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. Why Shift to a Subscription Revenue Model. If you have a product or service that can be offered as a subscription, right now is the perfect time to make the transition. Easier to Scale.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. 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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Happy post lunch interview. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Ari : All Right.

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