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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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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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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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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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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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

This is especially the case in the SaaS world. Gartner found that 70 percent of customer service employees hope to have work-from-home options in the post-pandemic world. Aside from the cost of tracking software comes the need to monitor your employees’ online activities throughout the day while they are working from home.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

We’ll see 2,500+ of the best SaaS founders, execs, and VCs June 6-7 at 2022 SaaStr Europa ! At OnBoard , we believe board meetings should be informed, effective, and uncomplicated. That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. Grab tickets here. .

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Even for more tenured Customer Success organizations, it’s an ongoing challenge to maintain consistency and perspective in your strategies and processes – keeping the customer at the center of your bustling and expanding operations. You get an impulse to define your internal processes.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. Amarachi Ogueji. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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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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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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

Demonstrating our SaaS platform online. Control and monitor the onboarding of customers. Help clients buy more of Robin’s goods and services. Collaborate on fundamental customer success KPIs and performance with the senior leadership team and larger go-to-market team. Payment that is competitive.

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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

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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User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources. Anticipate future customer needs and work proactively to find solutions. Cultivate a customer-centric culture from leadership down. Customer needs are desires, requirements, and expectations customers have when they look for a product or service.

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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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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? When is the right time?

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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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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? Which outcomes do you need to create during that journey?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

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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

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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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.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

In a technology driven world, where it feels like consumers are always looking for the next best service or software to jump ship to, reducing churn can be challenging for a SaaS company like Emphatic. About Emphatic Emphatic is a social media automation software, similar to Hootsuite or Buffer.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2019

Gorgias helps brands automatically respond to basic questions, and track the impact of customer service on sales so support becomes a profit center. We are a customer service platform for e-commerce websites, and one of the things we try to do is to automate customer support. Want to see more content like this? ” So, here we are!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. Finally, we have Apps, which is just like Force.com.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. So you want a lot of people onboard. And so that required leadership coming in and saying, “What exactly am I looking to incentivize here?”

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Improvement : The product substantially improves your buyer’s processes or performance: Get better / be better.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s SaaS technology allows businesses to collaborate, manage, analyze and report on critical internal controls data in real time. “I Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

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ChurnZero

JULY 24, 2020

Customer Success is often the conduit for change – whether you’re getting a customer to adopt your product, change their existing processes, test an untried strategy, or expand their account. Our key tip to remaining consistent is to follow a process – consistent activities deliver consistent results ,” writes Yesware.

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