GetUplift

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This happens in every industry… … like in this example from the accounting software industry: And in this one… … And this one… …Aaaand this one… “Built for your business, simple, easy, for business owners…” Any of these brands could simply use their competitor’s headline and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

B2B 65

B2B Technical Review Payment Solutions Scale 65

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. Here’s what Claire talks about: How to avoid trapdoor decisions when scaling. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. Missed the session?

Scale 115

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 115

SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Join Joaquim Lecha, CEO at Typeform, and Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine, as they delve into freemium at scale. The second one is customer feedback at scale. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 132

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 132

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

They define a bold path to leadership, they make difficult portfolio choices, they allocate resources strategically and they build strong capital structures. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. The economic benefits of scale are as critical in high tech as they are in any sector.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Want to see more content like this? How’s it guys?

Scale 160

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 160

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. Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 124

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Considering blogging is such a crucial part of the web, some website builders have been designed with a content management system in mind. Thought leadership – In many industries, it is useful for people of prominence to share their unique insights on a public platform. An example of a content-centric website. Ease of use.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

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. Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 128

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Dashboard, which was a payments company back in Brazil that did payment processing, like Stripe, Braintree, or ePay, all those … That’s you guys’ versions of the company. After three months of college, we decided that we wanted to start a company, and we tired of payments. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring 162

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 162

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. And that… Look, cloud infrastructure and established categories of enterprise software are close to recession-proof. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter. You can go to SaaStr.

Scale 206

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 206

How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. The software product is continuously updated.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Solutions SaaS 40

SaaSX

JUNE 2, 2019

Growing a SaaS company at >50% YOY (at scale) is hard. The cost of only focusing on short-term growth is that you accrue debt everywhere — people, processes, systems, technology — you name it. My preferred solution to the short/long-term conundrum was to have people divided into two camps. SaaS debt is no different.

SaaS Payments 60

SaaS Payments Technical Review Systems Review Strategy 60

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. With customers in higher education, nonprofit, healthcare systems, government, and corporate enterprise business, OnBoard is the leading board management provider. Qwilr is the tool of choice for scaling B2B sales teams.

Merchant Services 273

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Onboarding Payments 273

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Price/Revenue Ratio. Public Software Companies. +8%. However, many unprofitable SaaS companies are cash flow positive because of the upfront SaaS payments by B2B clients. Once the SaaS company achieves the efficiencies of scale, the target RPM should be above 20% funding growth and improving profitability. Profitability.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59

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.). However, integrated solutions can be rigid and aren’t always the perfect fit for growing businesses—kind of like trying to wear a shoe that’s one size too big.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Before that, I was at a company called Grasswire, and in both of those companies we had to acquire customers for about 1/10th the price of our competitors. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. Want to see more content like this?

Acquisition 134

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 134

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Smaller companies have become more sophisticated in the tools they use, the IT systems, and automation for onboarding and offboarding, and all of that has resulted in needing to plug stuff into the tools you’re using quickly. If the company wasn’t built around this purpose, it would be hard to scale. And you should.

Enterprise readiness 232

Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 232

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. This is an interesting study that was done by the folks from Price Intelligently. Hi, everybody.

Payments 101

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 101

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How does Rob think through pricing today in a way that encourages land and expand? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. What does it take to expand effectively?

SaaS Payments 262

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 262

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. These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. I did a lot of slides already.

Sales Hiring 216

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 216

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Wooden on Leadership. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. The New Solution Selling. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Let’s start with the first one, which I think really is to prepare your core product for scale. The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 119

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 119

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

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. Nicolas : Really, one step at a time, so we knew the first pricing was just testing the market, and we iterated a lot on it. Nick : Pretty good?

Sales Hiring 243

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 243

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Pipedrive – Sales CRM & Pipeline Management Software (use this link for 30 days extra trial). Maximizer CRM – All-Inclusive CRM Software. One Simple Price. Better Clients.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Pipedrive – Sales CRM & Pipeline Management Software (use this link for 30 days extra trial). Pipedrive – Sales CRM & Pipeline Management Software (use this link for 30 days extra trial). noCRM.io - Lead management software that really helps salespeople. Maximizer CRM - All-Inclusive CRM Software. centric CRM.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. This episode is sponsored by Brex. Company was going through massive hyper growth.

Technical Advisors 164

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 164

SmartKarrot

JUNE 5, 2023

Not just for Spiderman, the statement is also very suitable for someone in leadership. A robust task management platform is your solution and this is where Asana Task Manager enters into the picture. per user per month (for annual payment). Priced at $24.99 Are you one and do you want to make your life (work) easier?

Payments 10

Payments Management Scale Software Review 10

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

You’ve built a successful business and have a repeatable customer acquisition process that you’ve already demonstrated can scale with access to more capital. Generally speaking, building a software product—even a minimum viable product—is going to take more effort and time than selling your skills as services. Their secret?

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? I don’t know anyone right now.

Payment Methods 205

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 205

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

Sales Recruiting 168

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 168

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Want to see more content like this? It was tedious in certain ways.

Payment Services 136

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

We invest from the very earliest stages to the latest stages of software and consumer companies and we’re based in California. The question as a business is, at what price point does it actually make sense to hire a salesperson in order to make the cost of customer acquisition scale. It’s 3% in the 5-15K ACV.

Scale 213

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Payment Services 213

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Average Sale/Selling Price. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a system of computers, software, machines and processes that simulate certain aspects of human intelligence such as image perception, voice recognition and reasoning. Content Management System. Account Development Representative. Account Executive.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 99

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Plaid has always been a wartime company and we’re trying to continue to scale that out. ” Or “How do I process an ACH payment?”

Payments 150

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 150

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 157

SaaStr

JULY 18, 2019

It’s an essential skill in the toolkit of the modern marketer, and one that’s easy to get started with, no matter your company scale. I’m the CEO and one of the co founders at Lucid Software. Here is our original payment page. We also originally started only on this pricing page and this flow. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Marketing 107

Marketing Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 107

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

Payment Solutions 143

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 143