SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 256

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 256

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 144

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 144

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

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. Harry Stebbings: All thanks to Lee Fixel for making the intro a long time ago now.

Scale 126

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 126

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

CTO Coach 125

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 125

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.

Payments 118

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 118

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Leadership. Leadership. VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. People First Productivity Solutions. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Director, Sales Solutions, North America. The Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women. S&P Global Market Intelligence.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

million round of venture funding from First Round Capital and others, scaled the team, got somewhat of product/market fit, but ended up selling early to TaskRabbit. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. Thumbtack used a much more simple but still scalable solution.

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Sometimes we call ourselves experts in failure. Like any good list, I have a top ten list.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 165

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. A lot of these businesses use a common marketing technique in order to grow really quickly, and that marketing technique is free trial. And then the last is, test requiring payment.

Scale 207

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Payment Services 207

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership?

Scale 119

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 119

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

It’s easy to dream up a sophisticated solution to a problem, but first you need to validate your assumptions to ensure you’re on the right track before going nuts with features. To differentiate yourself in a crowded market, ease of use is only part of the equation. We know it’s going to be a great, meaty product release.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Software Review 106

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.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 156

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

In this preliminary phase, you’re still likely trying to reach product-market fit, you can count your customers on two hands, and you have a good sense of your customers’ satisfaction with your service despite not having any formal surveying. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M Pre-Build Phase. Build Phase.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

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. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform. Product/market fit.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. He can help you from this point forward”. Was it enjoyable?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. 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. We know a lot about payments. Did you have a product?

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 156

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This means that such companies are product-oriented as well, but also include a small inside account management team to help them catch and convert by providing real-time assistance during the software purchase process. Picking the ideal software sales model. This is a unique SaaS sales model and the benefits are stark.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is generally the first zero to $1 million in ARR, with the founder trying to find product market fit and getting those very first customers. Meghan Gill: So it’s really not a phase where you’re trying to optimize sales comp, you’re trying to find product market fit.

Sales Recruiting 130

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 130

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple.

Acquisition 136

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 136

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. Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. The best companies are refining their product to meet customers where they are today.

Sales Hiring 54

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Spend to get market share and be okay with the small market because you can saturate that market really, really fast. ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. Caroline Andreola is a Client Success Strategy professional with product development, product marketing, commercial planning, customer success , and project management skills to name a few. Caroline Andreola. Daphne Lopes.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money. The next stage is the maturity stage.

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

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). Are you one and do you want to make your life (work) easier? Who is it for?

Payments 10

Payments Management Scale Software Review 10

SmartKarrot

JULY 22, 2022

Work closely with leadership in Customer Marketing, Account Management, and Implementation to deliver value across the customer lifecycle and proactively tackle bottlenecks to customer value realization. Optimize the post-sales customer journey, ensuring customers recognize value from the Paper product.

Customer Success 3

Customer Success Payment Services Payments Scale 3

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April.

Investment 158

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 158

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. Then we couldn’t process the payments. The startup journey moves in waves—whether you’re ready or not. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. Then we couldn’t process the payments. The startup journey moves in waves—whether you’re ready or not. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100