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 ‘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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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s best to send transactional NPS surveys: During the onboarding process to get insights into the customer experience. Upon a customer service call to measure customer satisfaction with the help received. Invite passives to interviews to learn more about their expectations. They are your most loyal customers.

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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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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

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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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. Offer self-service support with an in-app knowledge base. And your role at a customer success team?

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. Offer self-service support with an in-app knowledge base. And your role at a customer success team?

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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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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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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. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps. We’d like to see your software.

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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 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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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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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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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. But that’s not how we live.

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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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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. The article will teach you how to design an onboarding strategy for your SaaS. TL;DR Customer onboarding helps new users understand and engage with a SaaS product effectively. We also share onboarding best practices and how Userpilot can help you implement them.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. 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. Move Faster & Scale Successfully. costs money and 2.

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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

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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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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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. Annette Franz.

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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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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. You had town car services before. So now we spend most of our time and our effort and our energy focusing on, what would the world look like if every student had their own headhunter, if they had somebody to go out and beat all the doors down and set up interviews for them?

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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. What is SAAS marketing?

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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

If you have a product or service that can be offered as a subscription, right now is the perfect time to make the transition. The post-checkout fulfillment process happens automatically. With active subscribers, recurring payments are sent automatically, giving you predictable cash flow and a steady income stream.

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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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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.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Applying a sales methodology to your selling gives you a tried and true advantage, and enables you to plan your work and work your plan. Insight Selling. Spear Selling.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. What questions must you ask?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. Obviously, at the top of the list is somebody that’s been in a startup, been successful, scaled, maybe had one exit, maybe had more than one.

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wepay

JANUARY 17, 2018

A key phase for any SaaS or software platform business is when they move beyond the idea, startup and product fit stages of their business to growing successfully. Do things that don’t scale. One of Paul Graham’s often contrarian pieces of advice is to do things that don’t scale in order to succeed and grow.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. And so, yeah, very surreal.

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