ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Solution Demand.

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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. What is RBF?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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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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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. What is RBF?

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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.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki, if you’d give us your intro. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making regarding financing deals, from revenue-based financing (RBF) to term loans and lines of credit. What should VCs make of revenue-based financing? Turning revenue-based financing into pre-VC growth.

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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

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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OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

In this third installment of our blog series ‘React, Adjust, Recover – Strategies for Professional Service Organizations During the COVID-19 Outbreak’, we focus on strategies to help businesses recover faster as restrictions begin to lift. So, what are some of those strategies for professional service organizations?

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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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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. powered by Sounder.

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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. What is SaaS?

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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. Price/Revenue Ratio. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Public Software Companies. +8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Challenges wrought by the pandemic haven’t come with easy or obvious solutions—other than a measure of agility to adapt to new situations. The impact of the pandemic was quite dramatic as we literally lost all of our revenue from one week to the other,” said Marcus Tillmann, CFO of online travel site Trivago. “We

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

This is especially the case in the SaaS world. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenues now. Gartner found that 70 percent of customer service employees hope to have work-from-home options in the post-pandemic world. Especially with monitoring your metrics. Table of Contents.

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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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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. This book is an invaluable read for those building a company or in a leadership position. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. Ben also created the Cultural Leadership Fund , connecting the greatest cultural leaders to advance more African Americans into technology. 90 day +14.01%.

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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. For example, in Kenya. It’s not a big deal.”

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

This trip begins for the majority of SaaS products when a user clicks a “cancel subscription” button of some sort. If you nail the offboarding process, you might even succeed in converting former clients into ardent supporters! What is offboarding? The route includes account churn. Inquire as to their reasons for departing.

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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. 6M to $10M of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) or ~10 Customer Success Mangers (CSMs). Build Phase.

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Now, what's happening in B2B SaaS news? Jay Nathan , B2B SaaS retention, expansion, and scaling expert, says: “We are all in sales.”. I'll tell ya just why.). 7 day +0.41% | ?? 90 day +3.31%.

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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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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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. Allison Pickens. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth. Annette Franz.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

Demonstrating our SaaS platform online. 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. Answering client questions. Controlling extensive client accounts.

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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. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. It’s not even close.

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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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