SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. Amarachi Ogueji. Her diverse yet unique skills include customer life cycle optimization from pre-sales.

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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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 168

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

This is an especially important stage, especially for SaaS startups. This is the stage where you identify an existing problem and understand how your product or service solves the problem. As a SaaS startup, your biggest task would be to land your first customer. You have also established yourself in the market.

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Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

User Pilot

MAY 8, 2024

Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources. Cultivate a customer-centric culture from leadership down. Userpilot is a product growth platform with feedback, analytics, and engagement features. Reliability : customers expect the product to be dependable and consistently perform well.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 271

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. I realized that I was missing something fundamental in that first company that was deep product/market fit.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 139

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Reps manage the entire sales process from start to finish. What’s not to like? People are smart.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Experimenting with product/market fit. Exclusivity : Your product cannot easily be copied. Profitability : Your product creates more cash flow than it costs. Experiment with product/market fit. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Achieve a goal.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. 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.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 132

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 104

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 148

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services. trillion dollar market that’s addressable. We call that a second act.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 165

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. They’re going to adopt the Shanghai processes.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 161

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. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 101

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. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 101

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 101

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? 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? Loving our podcast content?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million now Homeadvisor).

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