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? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 102

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 111

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

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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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Payments has been around for thousands of years. But we really even barely had managers.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 114

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. Be selective about the outcomes you’re investing in. Samuel Hulick: I actually started as a full stack developer.

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Onboarding Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 254

Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Product teams, UX and UI researchers, marketers, and site owners use this feature to capture data and analyze user behavior. Identify Javascript errors, user frustration, usability issues, or poor-performing content. FullSession provides a central analytics platform that lets you and your team collaborate more efficiently.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career? Anything less is failure.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. As such, they can face less competition because of the high barrier of entry that comes with developing specialist SaaS products.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 145

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. More sales meetings.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 107

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I think if you ask how applicable is SEO, programmable is maybe a different question, but I tell you every single SaaS company I have invested in or worked with that has made a commitment to building at least one high quality piece of content per week has seen significant ROI from SEO over a period of months or a year.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The key here is knowing what your sales model is. One is what I call the low touch sales model.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At some point in their growth, businesses usually start investing in customer research. They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. However, Michele quickly realized that customer research should be a part of the whole product development process.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Let’s hear what they each had to say. . ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2021

Social media has created new channels for sales reps to conduct research on prospective customers, connect with leads, and build relationships. This new sales strategy is known as social selling, and the numbers show that when it works, it works. What is LinkedIn Sales Navigator? How much does LinkedIn Sales Navigator cost?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. She manages a huge global team. Four, people in the sale?

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 170

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. In light of the sale of Buildium last month I figured now is as good of a time as any to reflect on the most important ones. We could branch out into commercial property management. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. What is the SaaS business model. Consistent updates.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps? What have been his lessons on optimizing payback period for sales reps? How should founders think about sales rep compensation? How does David think about payback period on a per rep basis?

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 184

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What is sales? What is sales? Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Sales is not about revenue generation, it’s around customer value creation. Why are we so obsessed with sales being focused on revenue? We have the subscription revenue. The subscription economy.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before I lived it, I thought of the tech world as being very business oriented—a place owned by analytical types and developers writing rigid blocks of code that looked like gibberish to me.

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Upscope

JANUARY 23, 2021

Soon I'll also be using software for SOC2 certification management, product management, recruitment and any process which can be handled better by a system rather than an Google Sheet. I'd expect development tools to rise up this list over time as it's a huge growing market and the competitors are flooding in.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 25, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got Alyssa Merwin , Vice President of Sales Solutions for LinkedIn, North America. She runs Sales Navigator and is perhaps one of the most important people selling sales engagement and sales software in the world. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com. Do you have to invest in it from Day 1? for the fantastic intro.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 207