OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I was lucky to catch up recently with one of my very favorite SaaS founders, René Lacerte, CEO Bill.com. Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a stunning $25B+ market cap. Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. But it paid off.

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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 57

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. 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.

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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 137

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. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Know more about NRR: What is net dollar retention?

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our investment in Graneet. Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further.

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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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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But But do you find most orgs favor investments in one or the other?

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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. 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?

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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.

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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.

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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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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. Drive Revenue.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. 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. . AB Testing. Account-Based Marketing. Account Development Representative.

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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 196

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. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. What questions must you ask?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. We have a great sales force.

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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 164

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? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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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

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? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

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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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. 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? * What was the founding moment with Zylo? What needs to change?

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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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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. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 156

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].

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

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. Revenue Model – A description of how the company generates revenue. In others however, growth has seem like a slog. Product complexity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. That’s exactly what Nick did when he made an early investment in ChartMogul’s content. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. *

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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? *

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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.

Payment Methods 101

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 101

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 137