Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%. See a16z.com/global-payments for more.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

You, personally, have probably cut out your personal trainer sessions and put off buying that new living room couch, right? We’re all human beings experiencing the same things in our personal lives — but these are the exact same priorities our prospects and customers are experiencing. Eliminating discretionary spend.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Ari : Millions of dollars in lawsuits as an eight person company and you need them to give you an amount of money that’s roughly equal to that.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one. million ($47.3

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was initially created to help users get inspiration and ideas, discover new content online, and organize and save them for later. We Heart It 2008 Fabio Giolito 4. FoodGawker 2008 Gawkerverse 5. The only difference is that the images and videos on Pinterest take you to a store link or a profile of the original picture.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior? Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Reduce failed payments.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. The value prop is shifting from payments and ticketing to helping event creators grow their ticket sales. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. Toast was quick to pivot their offerings to help restaurants adapt to online ordering, closed dining rooms and contactless delivery—and this feature even helps restaurants get the word out. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I co-authored Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company , published in 2008, a book which devoted considerable attention to what we knew from experience to be a serious issue. They lost that bid, and later learned, “We were afraid your lead person is just too young for this role.”. But you couldn’t be more wrong.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Loved by the WordPress community at-large, Gravity Forms is praised as the “ best contact form plugin ” for websites powered by WordPress. Born from a personal need. Prior to forming Rocketgenius, Gravity Forms’ parent company, co-founders Carl Hancock , Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut worked together developing websites for clients.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. Would customers stretch out payment terms? Limiting layoffs to one round: This nimble yet methodical planning enabled Salsify to cut at an appropriate depth. How quickly would customers churn?

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). The USP of the company is personalized video content – leveraging video content for interactions helps businesses increase their sales.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. In a press release , the financial process automation firm confirmed a 124% increase in its payment volume. Engineering. IntelliJ IDEA. Eventbrite.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. The same goes for the website, customer support, and user onboarding. Focus: Product and Customer Journey. Focus: Customer Onboarding and Face-to-Face Conversion.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. I’ll give you an example in your personal life. Maybe you want to launch a business.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? I can help you accelerate your payment.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. I don’t care.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

Chen Amit: So, I started in the tech world many years ago and actually started and made money as a youngster before the personal computer was created. In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. Both of them were a thousand person company. It was Commodore 64, Vic 20.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. 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. What is the process to do it efficiently?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

Government spending takes many forms, including investment in infrastructure, provision of social services, and transfer payments like social security and unemployment benefits. Both methods effectively reduce the reserves that commercial banks hold at the central bank, which can lead to higher interest rates.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. I mean Reddit, is one of the ugliest websites ever made.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Another 21% were only using the product one or a few times per week, which makes us think that usage is probably correlated to payment (Spotify has 70M paid users and approximately 3X that many free users). We can attribute these results to how Spotify has thought about the product and pricing strategy since its inception in 2008.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. When online language learning platform busuu.com started business in 2008, they paid close attention to what people were asking for in additional features to understand what they could eventually charge for. Learn how to avoid catastrophe here.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. In a lot of larger companies, they’re completely okay with giving you two or three year payments all up front. Look at Eric Yuan at Zoom.

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Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

Customers in this age of instant gratification always expect a smooth and seamless online payments experience. As a business owner, you must have a clear understanding of how online payments processing works to be able to create a hassle-free checkout process that will keep buyers coming back to your eCommerce store.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? One, in 2008 I had the good fortune to be in the front row of the famous Sequoia Rest In Peace Good Times meeting. How long do they last? I’m intrigued.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In the last few years, we have witnessed digital wallet apps taking over the market, especially after Covid 19, and cashless payments became all the rave. Almost all of us are acquainted with the best digital wallet apps and use them daily for online shopping, bill payments, and splitting with our friends.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. As a last method to keep your subscriptions alive, you may have to develop specific crisis packages which allow smaller customers with a high risk to (crisis) churn, to pause the subscription. How ill your board and investors react?

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. As a last method to keep your subscriptions alive, you may have to develop specific crisis packages which allow smaller customers with a high risk to (crisis) churn, to pause the subscription. How ill your board and investors react?

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