OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Solution Demand.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

Unfortunately, this also means that our guard is up even when it comes to being sold a product or service that can actually help us. Take away the pressure The solution is anathema to most marketing strategies: take away the goal of selling anything. This brings us to a need for control. Collaborations are a prime example.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. 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. * What is a good payback period? *

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. Here’s an example of how an RBF loan facility can work: We invest $300k with a 36-month payback term.

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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?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

In this third installment of our blog series ‘React, Adjust, Recover – Strategies for Professional Service Organizations During the COVID-19 Outbreak’, we focus on strategies to help businesses recover faster as restrictions begin to lift. So, what are some of those strategies for professional service organizations?

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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

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. What is the process to do it efficiently? Loving our podcast content? How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market?

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. Here’s an example of how an RBF loan facility can work: We invest $300k with a 36-month payback term.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Challenges wrought by the pandemic haven’t come with easy or obvious solutions—other than a measure of agility to adapt to new situations. We had no plan for a global pandemic, so the first thing I did was to tell the teams to cut all our marketing investments and other variable costs as quickly as possible.”. Capital strength.

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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. In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Public Software Companies. +8%. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable. SaaS Companies Trade Profits for Growth. Weighted Average. Profitability.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

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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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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Chasing the wrong priorities and investments can quickly snowball and compound over time, resulting in stunted progress and flatline growth. That’s why it’s essential to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that create the most value for your customers and your organization.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As alternative financing solutions attract more attention from entrepreneurs, some VC investors are noticing more startups are turning to these options for their growth and working capital needs, many times mixing and matching RBF with a term loan, line of credit with a forward commitment, or both. Funding options by stage of growth.

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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.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7–9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to upgrade to the paid version once those basic needs are met. We are an early stage VC, mostly focused on SaaS all over Europe and and beyond.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. You had town car services before. If we look at Lyft’s marketing, it’s still working on the consumer side, and its solution is, “A convenient ride with a simple tap.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.). They offer a broad view of a SaaS company’s financial operations. On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.) When to Consider a Point Solution.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Wooden on Leadership. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. Spin Selling.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . Remember that deploying enterprise software can cost a company millions of dollars, so you must show that your product is worthwhile. Enterprise clients can hire the top employees.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

This is an especially important stage, especially for SaaS startups. This is the stage where you identify an existing problem and understand how your product or service solves the problem. The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. As a SaaS startup, your biggest task would be to land your first customer.

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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: Not at all.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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. That’s pre-Plaid.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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