Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

The phone rings. If you chose not to answer the phone, you’d be in the majority. People love talking to you on the phone – just not necessarily when you’re selling something. Buyers need to be in control When the phone rings, or an email pops into our inbox, we are put in a reactive position. Do you pick up?

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Marketing 98

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 168

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 168

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . better understand Inbound, and learn about major tactics that you can implement, master your SaaS pricing page and increase your conversions. (We And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing. SaaS Pricing.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Naomi Pilosof Ionita | Investing Partner @ Menlo Ventures. We’re going to talk about matching price to value, and I’m going to share some lessons from my time as both an operator and an investor. What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

Scale 196

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 196

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.

Payment Methods 205

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 205

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. Capsule CRM - The smart simple online CRM. One Simple Price. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. My account runs my website.

SaaS Payments 268

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 268

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.

Scale 159

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 159

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It’ll track any Google-based Sales Professional’s efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they’ve called back. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM. One Simple Price. amoCRM – Put Your Sales on Auto Mode.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Prologue to SaaS upsell Three months ago when you had only 600 subscribers, you chose a pricing plan that allowed you to send emails to a maximum of 2,000 users. Because you think he will benefit from plan B even more and make a larger payment. If they are ok with using their current plan, let them enjoy their investment.

SaaS Payments 159

SaaS Payments Payments SaaS Payment Methods 159

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. * First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? What is the process to do it efficiently?

Scale 135

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 135

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.

Scale 121

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 121

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Similarly, the startup leadership are usually the best people to figure out the type of an integration needed between their app and the billing platform. Without visibility to your A/R, it would take a while from your company leadership to notice if there’s a looming cash crunch. When a payment comes in, it should decrease.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

We invest from the very earliest stages to the latest stages of software and consumer companies and we’re based in California. This was one of the results where we’ve invested in SMB companies like Expensify, that have phenomenal net dollar retention growth rate, net dollar retention numbers. This surprised me.

Scale 216

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Payment Services 216

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

They don’t highlight the number of pieces you have in a pack or the pricing. This complete guide will give you the step-by-step process for growing your conversions and creating landing pages, funnels, websites and emails that make prospects choose you over your competitors. The article was only written to drive website traffic.

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

Harvard Business Review recommends a model that has fewer ‘knee-jerk’ cost cutting tactics, blended with a few strategic investments. To help accelerate your business you must embrace that in the post-COVID world, your customers will be much more willing to accept remote delivery of services that were traditionally delivered in person.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Review Payment Methods 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. They also don’t hang out online, there’s no congregation where a bunch of small businesses are that you can find them.

Payment Methods 101

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As founders and leadership teams scramble to minimize the impact of the downturn on their businesses, I can assure you that most of their employees aren’t reaching out to them offering creative solutions to their problems. Platforms like Shopify have grown to the extent that they have (and are currently doing really well!)

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. Identify what you can and try and close those deals.

Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 168

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. Here’s Lynch’s website (now seemingly somewhat out of date) to hear his side of this story. Leadership matters.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. He had a sense for it.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

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? * How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 127

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

Payments 125

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 125

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. ” Many leadership paths. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. From there he took leadership roles at a number of high-profile Internet companies, including ZipRealty and Yelp.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

So you can create this online interactions that are amazingly beautiful without any need for codes and without any, let’s say, true design education. Like they were looking at this existing forums as the online version of lifeless paper forms. So that we can suggest you like other eCommerce’s do as well.

Scale 142

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 142

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring 164

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 164

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. We were on the phone selling our software before we’d even really begun to get the first few customers in and figure out what do they really need? We have Tradeshift Pay.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 154

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. It could come back.

Sales Hiring 207

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 207

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies.

Sales Recruiting 175

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 175

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Quovo had focused on investment accounts and allowing you to programmatically interact with your investment accounts through third-party applications.

Payments 146

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 146

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? I know there’s everything written about how 57% or 68% of the buyer journey is done before they engage a salesperson because so many people are researching online. Now having said that, even then I need to invest in that enablement. Number one.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 139

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Before that, I was at a company called Grasswire, and in both of those companies we had to acquire customers for about 1/10th the price of our competitors. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Want to see more content like this?

Acquisition 145

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 145

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Simplified product, pricing, and onboarding processes. Similar to the Stitch Fix model, Lookiero applies algorithms to a database of personal stylists and customer profiles to provide a personalized shopping experience to its online user base. Strong year-over-year growth in new customer acquisitions and client renewals.

VP of Engineering 45

VP of Engineering Payment Services Payment Methods Subscription 45