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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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

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?

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. For the cloud-scale applications, Datadog monitors the servers, tools, databases, and services, with a data analytics platform that is SaaS-based.

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Retention SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 52

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. So let’s dig a little bit into the process. What does that process look like? David Vogelpohl Excellent.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

Customer Success 49

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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.

Scale 194

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 194

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. 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.

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Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Sale/Selling Price. Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Base Salary refers to an agreed-upon amount of payment an employee received as compensation for work rendered.

Scale 99

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. Here are a few of the trends that we are hearing about from CFOs, investors and lenders: Flexible pricing models and payment terms: A couple of things are happening here.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Trends Payment Solutions 59

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

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. So really well said.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 197

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you have a product that is absolutely crushing it in SMB/mid-market, you may be tempted to dive straight into the Enterprise market. Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. Everyone needs to understand the investment and time-frames associated with this decision. Bonus Takeaway.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payments Enterprise 58

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. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey? Which sales tools best support your sales process? One Simple Price. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. Other CRMs.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Eric made his way into the world of startups and SaaS. What were the biggest challenges in the process? * Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 141

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Sam’s Corner [41:10].

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. But the downturn in SaaS, at best, is uneven.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 204

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. In the case of a B2B SaaS company, your Go To Market model outlines the way in which you acquire customers. It’s free to send less than 2000 emails per month, with paid pricing plans going up from there. In others however, growth has seem like a slog.

Scale 192

Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

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? Why did Jeppe decide to focus on SMBs from Day 1? How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? What was that a-ha moment for him with Pleo? *

Scale 121

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 121

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As one of the most difficult markets to enter and succeed, how can new and old SaaS providers win with SMBs? So it’s a neat opportunity for them to get access to the tools and services that previously were unavailable to them. 68% of millennials say they would pay more if they could have a more personalized service.

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Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. Be like, "And we got it at a fantastic price." Let's jump in.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. Be like, "And we got it at a fantastic price." Let's jump in.

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