SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. . This brings the total amount raised at $85.2

Scale 357

Scale Artificial Intelligence Payments Payment Services 357

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . Swagup , a SaaS startup streamlining swag creation and distribution for brands, is looking for a veteran sales leader to accelerate their growth.

Sales Hiring 333

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Payments 333

Totango

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today we are releasing the Early Warning System SuccessBloc, which gives you instant visibility into customer signals and critical events, alerting you to proactively engage when needed. Champion Loss or Leadership Change. Overdue Payments and Outstanding Balances.

Payment Solutions 62

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 62

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2020

Most SaaS companies will have existing customers. This is important to project churn rates, assess timing of software payments, and estimate the impact on cash flows/burn. Dunning is the process of collecting outstanding payments and communicating with customers about them. Sixth, leadership.

Startup 207

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 207

ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

At ChurnZero, we’re humble enough to admit that Customer Success software can’t do it all, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t. We stick to our circle of competence and focus on our area of expertise: Customer Success software. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software. Customer Support/Service Software and Ticketing Systems.

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring Payments 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Every successful SaaS business strategy requires a full-potential ambition aimed at sustained profitable growth. Every SaaS company strives to adapt to the emerging changes in the market as soon as possible and achieve sustainable growth. The service you deliver. The strategies you deploy. The marketing tone you use.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Company Culture Payment Solutions 196

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.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

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.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

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.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

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.

Scale 219

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 219

Baremetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

Unfortunately, this also means that our guard is up even when it comes to being sold a product or service that can actually help us. Take away the pressure The solution is anathema to most marketing strategies: take away the goal of selling anything. This brings us to a need for control. Collaborations are a prime example.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Marketing 98

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? *

SaaS Payments 135

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 135

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 95

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 95

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.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

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.

Scale 155

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 155

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?

Scale 131

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 131

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

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?

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Review Payment Methods 59

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.

Payments 59

Payments Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Solutions 59

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.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

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?

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Solutions SaaS 40

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.

Scale 119

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

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. Reese—whose career has spanned wealth management, financial services, payments, and fintech—said he viewed the CFO role as being “the champion of value creation.” That’s an ongoing process.”.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Scale Strategy Payment Services 52

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.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

Scale 102

Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 102

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.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

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.”

Scale 169

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 169

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.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59

SaaSX

JUNE 2, 2019

Growing a SaaS company at >50% YOY (at scale) is hard. When you think long-term first, and focus on processes more than performance, you lose agility and urgency. The cost of only focusing on short-term growth is that you accrue debt everywhere — people, processes, systems, technology — you name it. Short-Term Mayhem.

SaaS Payments 60

SaaS Payments Technical Review Systems Review Strategy 60

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.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52

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 122

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 122

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%.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

Kellblog

JULY 24, 2021

I sometimes get asked about how to structure an enterprise software marketing organization and the relative roles of product marketing vs. competitive analysis. So the question becomes: in enterprise software, how do we structure product marketing and competitive in the best way to do just that?

Product Marketing 136

Product Marketing Marketing Sales Hiring Payment Services 136

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.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Technical Review Payment Methods Software Review 98

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.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90