FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2021

When price localization isn’t a part of your growth strategy, it limits long-term growth and prevents your business from reaching customers that want your products and services. Price localization is essentially the practice of tailoring your company’s pricing strategy to local markets. This is how you get closer to product-market fit.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this Mucker Growth session, Kyle Poyar from OpenView delves into the critical topic of pricing for SaaS startups, aiming to rectify prevailing mistakes in your pricing strategies. Optimizing SaaS pricing is an ongoing process, and one that most startup founders struggle to perfect. Achieving product-market-price fit is paramount.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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ProfitWell

JUNE 15, 2020

An entire Swedish spa village is on sale for $7 million. This report is a quick but mighty read, jam-packed with data and trends to help you optimize your DTC marketing strategies. Here are the main takeaways: Customers expect highly-personalized experiences and contextualized customer journeys. Product Margin.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Guillaume : And today we’re going to talk about how to build your marketing stack. So I invited both Alice and Pauline because they represent different stages of startup life with different types of MarTech Stack progress, but first I want to give you a quick outlook on what I’m seeing. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. 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. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? I’ll go easy on you.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 9, 2020

Because it is the single most important factor in product success. Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well. Create a new product : Struggling to retain users at all?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. Just this week, a seller said eBay sent a survey asking specifically about the issue, which we read in a report by Ecommerce Bytes. We can attest.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. ” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. Interested in sponsoring? Let us know.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As the balance of power within companies shifts to technical roles, and sales teams understand that selling to developers is about building with them, not talking at them – progress is being made. As we’ve grown we’ve come to understand that developer sales isn’t about selling in a traditional sense.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. A successful price increase helps you acquire better customers, who are more serious about using your product and less likely to churn. SaaS Pricing Basics.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Customer Success-driven Sales. Designing a Sales-to-CSM Handoff that Actually Works. Sales is Part of Customer Success. Technical Support.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. Reduce failed payments. QuikNode has customers all over the world. Gain valuable feedback.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * So if we start on the first type of SaaS businesses that sell to SMBs and often one to five person teams, and they likely will always sell to those types of teams. Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product.

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

Baremetrics

APRIL 30, 2020

It may not be a metric you highlight in the next board meeting, but it can narrow your market focus and lead your sales team to the right segment. It can be a strong signal of product market fit. A by-product is that it will also help your cashflow since you’ll get all that cash up front. Raise your prices.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. Creating a Winning Sales Incentives Program.

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Casey Accidental

JULY 6, 2020

Because it is the single most important factor in product success. Retention is not only the primary measure of product value and product/market fit for most businesses; it is also the biggest driver of monetization and acquisition as well. Create a new product : Struggling to retain users at all?

Retention 52

Retention Benchmarks Payments Payment Methods 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. On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry. These signals are much more relevant and meaningful to us and help us define the actual latent demand for our product.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. The Types of Platforms. Supply Value Prop.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. and Socialcam. Want to see more content like this? This is extremely common.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. Sales in a product-led initiative: feat. Now Hire Sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 229

OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Experimenting with product/market fit. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. Experiment with product/market fit.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. This feedback can be used to make better product experiences for customers. A startup I worked with recently surveyed their users during onboarding and found out that their sign-up flow didn’t work at all on a particular mobile browser. Keep it short.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? Products Are Finding New Growth in the Opposite Segment. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? 242: It’s the employees’ market. But to our episode today and an individual that I’ve learned so much from in the past, both personally and through his writing, and so I could not be more thrilled to welcome back Dave Kellogg to the hot seat today.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While out in the fields, she started thinking about passive income, and it occurred to her that she could teach grant writing online. Book sales: We make some money from this, but it’s more a marketing and authority building tool for the Collective. Marketing expenses are things like ads and sponsorships.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. How long is the likely sales cycle (is it a complex sale)? Goal of website.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? There was a small startup scene. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You want to trigger in-app experiences based on analytics – Heap doesn’t offer built-in tools to personalize the user experience based on product analytics and insights. A product adoption platform like Userpilot can help you bypass the process of finding the right engagement tools.

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