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.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

The initial effort you put into finding a product-market fit will have a direct impact on whether your advertising efforts will be successful or not. If you don’t have product-market fit, you could be advertising to the wrong buyer personas and attracting the wrong buyers, leading to higher churn and poor retention.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2023

They can also help secure the data, reporting, process, and discipline a business need to evaluate progress so it can develop the accountability necessary to drive operational excellence. Developing a robust forecast is imperative for your future success. The path to success is not linear. Looking back vs. looking forward.

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Sales Hiring Acquisition Forecasting Outsourced Development 44

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products. Let’s get to it.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Your core is a lot like pricing in SaaS companies. Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. You can rely on value-based pricing to deliver products and services to different market segments. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. What is a pricing audit?

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy by Jacco Van Der Kooij. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provided practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. This particular piece of the series outlines a tactical approach to building a go-to-market strategy. Notable Stats.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. Justin Scott My pleasure.

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Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 142

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Net dollar retention becomes the top SaaS metric. What drives these disruptive cycles: Feature creep , which leads to market overshoot over time. Tech bubble relents.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. But you’ve always coined this phrase “business to human marketing”, B2H. Some developer’s tinkering with something. We’ve got to buy it.”

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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.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Actually what I found was a little disarming, a little unfortunate, because there was a lot of, I think, bad experiences in the past with corporate venture capital and with earlier stage companies or with other VCs working with CVCs as they were once called. To get that distribution all over the world in different market segments.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I would argue that retention is probably the most important of these categories, so the first thing to note is that retention is really going to differ, depending on your market segment.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. How the hell does that happen?

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. But you’ve always coined this phrase “business to human marketing”, B2H. Some developer’s tinkering with something. We’ve got to buy it.”

Scale 51

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 51

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Securing SaaS funding is one of the most fraught and exciting parts of running a SaaS business. Going into the pursuit of funding without a plan can lead you nowhere—or, even worse, leave you saddled with a funding plan that’s bad for you and your business. When is the right time to look for SaaS funding?

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Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing experimentation is an approach to generating fresh ideas, testing strategies, identifying your mistakes, optimizing campaigns, and making data-informed decisions moving forward. It can also uncover hidden opportunities for organizations in new markets, segments, or use cases. Why you should run marketing experiments?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 271

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Michael made his way into the world of SaaS and enterprise SaaS having founded and IPO’d an adtech business previously. * Who should be brought into the meeting other than the sales team? We’ve been in market since 2015, though, so we spent the first few years building.

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Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Systems Review 178

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. Yes, SaaS is powerful.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups. What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

OPEXEngine

MARCH 9, 2021

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

Scale 52

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

OpenView Labs

MAY 13, 2021

Customer segmentation is the way. What is customer segmentation and why does it matter? Also known as market segmentation, customer segmentation is the division of potential customers in a given market into discrete groups. That division is based on customers having similar: Needs (i.e.,

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Upscope

JANUARY 23, 2021

What sort of problems does having so many SaaS apps create? Enterprises have, on average, 288 different SaaS apps in usage across their businesses" The report by Blisfully was published in Oct 2019 so take into account that spending on SaaS has likely rocketed since then due to the pandemic forcing organisations to go cloud first.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Software Systems Review 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

He discusses how to scale a multi-billion dollar SaaS company, as well as the key elements to navigating a successful career. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions.

Development Team Review 54

Development Team Review Scale Software Review Sales Hiring 54

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

A Really Brief History of Acquisition Models in SaaS. To date, the customer acquisition process in the SaaS era has been following a 3-step evolution. Sales teams were primarily responsible for driving revenue through outbound calls. This is the idea behind the traditional inbound marketing framework.

Strategy 40

Strategy Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition 40

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Acquisition speculation – are there more possibilities that could impact SaaS in 2018? In fact, in 2017 alone, we reported that a whopping 700 new SaaS sales technologies have been released. Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success has its roots in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world and my original definition was very much SaaS-centric. But since then, companies that are not SaaS, or even technology companies at all, have recognized the transformative power of Customer Success and embraced it as their new operating model.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. When we started out, we built the company purely as a SaaS company. We work with mostly modern teams. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020.

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