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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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Number three is not understanding their business model. This is extremely common.

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Hull

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

User adoption of your product can be executed in a couple of different ways, through different channels like: Inside the product itself. On external platforms, like Facebook. In this post, we are going to learn: The essential pillars of user adoption of your product. moment of your product through Facebook.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. They love consuming SaaS products not because of the billing model, but because of the delivery model. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. SaaS businesses have churn.

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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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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. Meaningful inbound leads, even at this early stage, are often a sign that the market is hungry for the product offering.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

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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. SaaS Sales Models.

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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. And working in the property management industry? How the hell does that happen?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting. I’m the founder of Blossom Capital.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. The entrepreneur in me, though, wanted to make more money than I could make on the market. So at this stage, these companies have these amazingly predictable monthly recurring revenues.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * Serving SMBs in the way that Pleo does is an intensely competitive space, is this a winner-take-all market? Jeppe Rindom: Yeah, I think pricing has been an iterative process for us.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. We’re on iTunes.

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