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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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. Source: OPEXEngine.

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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

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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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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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

Factor in the huge uptick in global demand for online subscriptions services that arose through the pandemic, and we see that succeeding at retention has never been more important, and becomes a key differentiator for those who do 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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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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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

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. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. 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.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. EJ Brown 00:31 That was Ryan Austin, the founder and CEO of Cognota, the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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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%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. High-growth SaaS companies are often unprofitable. SaaS Companies Trade Profits for Growth.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

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 Another component was ensuring the company had the technology to conduct business and continue to support clients. That’s an ongoing process.”.

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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! They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable.

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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. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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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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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

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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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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

Demonstrating our SaaS platform online. Sell customers on the benefits of the Robin AI platform. 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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. 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. You had town car services before.

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