Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

I can already hear Christoph and the rest of our software-loving P9 team telling me that they would have preferred to invest in SaaS if it had existed, and he’s probably right. Some pure hardware businesses have capex requirements that would break a typical venture fund’s model. Still, it’s clear that things are different today.

Outsourcing Services 59

Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this than that, how can we prepare for a variety of scenarios so that we can nimbly respond to whatever comes our way and adapt in accordingly to the situation? And what’s the best case? What’s the base case?” And really, that’s essential.

Scale 260

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 260

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So we’re really proud of that and our whole team is really proud of that. And one thing that’s been really cool starting the company 10 years ago in an economic downturn to today, about six months ago Matthew and I and our team took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. Which ones are we bad at?

Sales Hiring 175

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 175

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And we now got to this point of one to $2 million in ARR across about 50 to 60 contracts. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual.

Scale 221

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 221

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. How to Develop a Customer Success Strategy. The Role of Customer Success in… Customer Development. Stretch vs. Bad-Fit Customers. Bad Sales Handoffs Cause Customers to Ghost During Onboarding.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. Sam Jacobs: Have you developed a process to answer that question of should you hire, should you fire? How do you evaluate talent?

Scale 106

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 106

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

Sales Hiring 132

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 132

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When your customer signs the contract and subscribes, you may get some cash up front, but that cash cannot be counted as revenue until you've earned it. Have I begun developing my own personal business model that will enable me to seek the right kind of funding and use it well? Consistent updates. Growth stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. Let’s take a closer look at how the “finance department” of a typical SaaS company might develop over time.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera.

Scale 226

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 226

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? Do you need field salespeople?

Scale 187

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 187

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Ophelia Brown | Founder, Partner @ Blossom Capital. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Evgenia Plotnikova | Principal @ Dawn Capital. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners (moderator). I’m the founder of Blossom Capital.

New CTO 145

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 145

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. And a lot of that early founding team came from ExactTarget lineage.

VP of Engineering 63

VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 63

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. You mean overwhelmed by too much capital? Ryan Smith: No.

Acquisition 126

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 126