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What The Downturn Will Probably Look Like in SaaS

SaaStr

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc.

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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. It’s 2009, and the Obama Inauguration is happening in town. All other products that came before Airbnb didn’t process payments.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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. David Schmaier: Sure.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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. We could branch out into commercial property management.

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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Panic About a Recession

Sales Hacker

By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. But this August I hosted a Sales Hacker panel with four sales leaders who guided their teams and companies through ‘08 and beyond, and what they said lightened something in my chest: Don’t panic.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

That was a local services marketplace focused on helping people hire small businesses rather than local services companies. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. We raised a $1.5-million