User Pilot

JUNE 14, 2021

Adoption stage automation examples: keep users engaged with automated email updates on in-app activities, and increase feature adoption with context-driven product experiences. Retention stage automation examples: use in-app micro-surveys to improve user retention and reduce churn. What is marketing automation?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Methods 52

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Finding channel/market fit. Are we still a startup? Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

I was born in Bombay, but grew up in New Jersey and was acutely aware of the juxtaposition of those two places in terms of economic development, politics and culture. I started the growth team and scaled Dia&Co’s customer acquisition and retention strategies. The Four Growth Levers – Foundational Building Blocks.

Strategy 64

Strategy Payment Solutions PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 64

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. Short on time?

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Software Review 106

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It also included questions about the possibility of a monthly flat payment to increase the number of "free" listings that would be month to month with no contract or yearly obligation. And with Pipe, we see three young serial entrepreneurs create a solution for “the canonical cash flow issue in SaaS startups.” We can attest.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. In these three steps, you’ll align pricing with your goals, review current strategies, and identify potential weaknesses. Identify weaknesses and opportunities. Personas and market mapping. What is a pricing audit?

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. This feedback can be used to make better product experiences for customers. Collect useful feedback.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding SaaS Payments SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

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. Jera Brown Nice.

Payment Methods 124

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 124

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

How they came up with the idea of Brex, and product market fit. Dashboard, which was a payments company back in Brazil that did payment processing, like Stripe, Braintree, or ePay, all those … That’s you guys’ versions of the company. We know a lot about payments. Before it was college.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 160

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Proactively reach out to dissatisfied customers with personalized solutions. What is customer attrition?

Underperforming Technical Team 95

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 95

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Compensation Sales Payments 82

User Pilot

MARCH 11, 2024

Let’s look at the most common scenarios where Mixpanel is NOT the right tool for your user onboarding needs and you should be looking into using a different one: You need better customer support : Mixpanel has been criticized for its poor customer service. Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is Mixpanel?

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Pricing 52

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Basically you can more easily start using products. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? They love SaaS products. They love consuming SaaS products not because of the billing model, but because of the delivery model. It’s also a perception of risk.

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

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.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. This especially matters when you start promoting on social media apps like WeChat — marketing channels that are conversation-based.

Payment Solutions 126

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 126

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are three scenarios where it makes sense to look for a Heap alternative : Your team lacks technical know-how – While it’s easy to install and configure Heap, navigating its features requires a bit of technical expertise. If your team members come from non-technical backgrounds, they might struggle to use Heap to the fullest.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) is the monitoring, gathering, and analyzing of user actions and data using monitoring systems, allowing you to acquire useful insights into your users’ desires, concerns, and challenges.It Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Q: If a new portfolio company does not already have a Customer Success team in place, in your opinion where does that fall in terms of priority of the business’ development? ChurnZero raised a $2.5

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. That’s how you find product-market fit.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 144

User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise. In this article, we detail what a product launch marketing plan is, why you need one, and how to create a successful product marketing from the start. Let’s begin!

ChatGPT 82

ChatGPT SaaS Payments Marketing Social Media 82

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2023

What is SaaS marketing? We’re all familiar with the basics of SaaS product marketing such as attracting users to a SaaS product with a subscription business model. That said, there are key differences between a SaaS marketing strategy and standard digital marketing. Enhancing revenue.

SaaS Payments 70

SaaS Payments Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS 70

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

New CTO 147

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147

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. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

CTO Coach 129

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 129

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. What this number means is across all industries, 94% of businesses today use at least one cloud solution.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

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, . Skills for SaaS Sales Team. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. 3 examples for you).

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

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. Experimenting with product/market fit. Experiment with product/market fit. The best companies are refining their product to meet customers where they are today.

Sales Hiring 54

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 54

A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. The data show that the two most common causes are: (1) Product isn’t useful to enough people, and (2) Problems with the team. The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed. ” A technological example makes this clear.

Payment Solutions 71

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Scale 71