Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Finance & Accounting. The most common example of business outsourcing is finance and accounting, or F&A. The problem isn’t just in the amount of time an in-house team has to dedicate to the work. This lack of resources is a major struggle for teams with in-house F&A staff, according to Consero.

Outsourcing Services 141

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Sales Hiring Technical Review 141

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

If you’re unable or unwilling to self-fund your startup, you may want to consider getting a job for the time being and part-timing your startup until you’re able to and comfortable with personally financing your company. This capital should be used for product development and the people required to help you build it. Venture Capital.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. David Schmaier: Sure. Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 219

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 219

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

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

I think what happened was – with bots specifically, through 2016 and 2017 – a lot of it was on Facebook Messenger. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. When we think of the next 12 months for product and engineering teams, what are some of the high-level themes you’re both focusing on?

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. You can’t talk with a founder without talking about financing. Our recommendation is that you think one financing ahead. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 113

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 113

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed. So that kind of price discovery makes financing very difficult. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be.

Technical Review 275

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 275

InsightSquared

MARCH 8, 2021

Focus on the things that you can control and work to win, understanding as you engage with your team, or anyone really. I started my professional career in finance and found my favorite days were the ones helping develop and train new team members. Liz Brown – Services Architect.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Systems Review 62

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2019

As for Whitney, she directly leads the organization’s go-to-market efforts, including sales, marketing, business development and customer operations. When is the right time for founders to think about building out their first exec team? How can you develop a winning culture? How did that change her operating mentality?

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Underperforming Technical Team 160

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 8, 2025

Privacy Concerns with Facebook Integration WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014, and by 2016 its privacy policy changed to share user data with Facebook and third parties. Security and Data Protection WhatsApp secures messages in transit with strong encryption, but there have been weak spots in other areas.

Software Review 52

Software Review Cloud Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2025

When the first oeksound plugin, Soothe, was created in 2016, creator Olli Keskinen and his friend Hannes Andersson were studying music technology to become recording engineers. But that comes with, you know, finance charges and you’re committing to the full purchase up front. And then they feel bad about the plugin.

Payment Methods 146

Payment Methods Business Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 146