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. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr.

Investment 167

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 167

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. As a SaaS startup, your biggest task would be to land your first customer. You have also established yourself in the market.

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

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?

SaaS Payments 277

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 277

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Reps manage the entire sales process from start to finish. What’s not to like? People are smart.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services. trillion dollar market that’s addressable.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 167

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. 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. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company.

Payment Solutions 152

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

Payments 104

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

We invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and you know we live and breathe enterprise tech, by how much we nerd out on sales completely, with all of our enterprise portfolio companies. 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.

Sales Recruiting 137

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 101

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 101

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 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? Loving our podcast content?

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 125

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 now Homeadvisor).

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189