Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers?

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SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

But, I’ve found when you actually look at the work to be done inside of high-growth startups there are some gaps that don’t always fit into a common org chart. . There are a handful of less obvious roles that can make an immediate positive impact on almost any high-growth startup. Is it time for a sales engineer?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Precisely – about SaaS affiliate programs… SaaS partner programs entice both software providers and affiliate partners for various reasons: 1) SaaS products are usually low-cost. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products. 5) Everyone minds his own business.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. Your first sales playbook.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. I’m from South Africa.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Martin Roth, CRO at Levelset.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While it includes your revenue model(s) and thus revenue stream(s), it also includes everything else from marketing to developing, recruiting, and operations. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. They were building time and expense software. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Know your forever user. Manual processes first.

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. We know a lot about payments. Interested in sponsoring?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. See below!

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach. See below!

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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. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. Your first sales playbook.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . But top performers have begun to far outpace their peers, especially for startups with less than $10M in ARR, and the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ has gotten wider than ever. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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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.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Workday, a company that sells software for human capital management, beat its earnings and sales estimates for the second quarter. It's by Litmus , an email software company. Her approach to workplace culture has startups and corporations perceiving her as a 'powerhouse of fresh air.' They have rent payments.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They help you understand how to optimize your website, web app, or landing page. Now, let’s begin this comprehensive article by highlighting the basics of website session recording software. Session playback helps you focus on the video and pay closer attention to how visitors interact with your website or app.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. How does Harry think about when is the right time for a startup to raise VC funding? Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Silent Sales Machine Radio. 2Checkout—online payment processing—hosts a webinar on October 24 with Conversion Optimization Expert Shannon MacLeod , to rundown the essentials of conversion optimization. Check out international sales strategies. The startup boom proves that anybody can grow a lucrative business.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 26, 2019

Top SanFran Startups. Tech Tribune's list of the best 2020 tech startups in San Francisco is out. Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Stripe, the online payment processing software, was placed in eighth. Today's Top Subscription News.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. As I wrote here , trying to forecast what happens to your CACs if you 10x your sales and marketing spend is very difficult. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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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. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. What you do now in sales, marketing, product, etc.—and Putting the customer first.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers.

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