SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. And we’re about to add basically a team collaboration tier on top of the product. The second question is more about, given that we’re basically users would be self qualifying into team management offering like a project management, et cetera.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. We have one company in our portfolio that this is the third time the founding team has been together. Workday wasn’t in that model, so we have a slightly different approach to portfolio development.

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Development Team Review Scale Technical Review Software Review 141

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. I'll fill you in.

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Payments SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: Team Selling: A Comeback Story for 2021 with Trish Bertuzzi. Learn how modern sales teams win deals now at 6sense.com/saleshacker. It’s a bad look, it’s a bad way to end your relationship. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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VP of Engineering Branding Scale Marketing 79

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2023, it’s difficult to find an industry completely untouched by software or to find someone who doesn’t recognize at least a handful of shiny B2B SaaS logos. I can already hear Christoph and the rest of our software-loving P9 team telling me that they would have preferred to invest in SaaS if it had existed, and he’s probably right.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. What are you seeing out there, is B2B even going to survive in the next two or three months of raise, we’re down to three months runway? But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. Anybody else got one to ask? Colin: Yeah.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

But maybe in SaaS and B2B things are pretty good. And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. So much talk about doom and gloom. Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Take notes, highlight the best parts, and share important takeaways with your team. The Sales Hacker Podcast is carefully designed to give you tangible, practical insights about B2B sales. Get technical help and a dose of motivation from two of the leading B2B sales trainers, leadership coaches and business strategists on the market.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. When uncertainty passes, VC funds have plenty of dry capital to put to work.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

I’ve spent my whole career in B2B software. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. Some needed talent development. background music]. What a great conference, right?

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? People talk about B2B marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great.

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SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital 40

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Lauren Bailey’s award-winning sales firm Factor 8 has been instrumental in helping sales teams with their sales and management development programs. She also understands that even the most well-intentioned sales leaders may need guidance to include more women in their sales teams. Bill Binch – CRO at Pendo.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Whether you’re trying to manage reduced tax rates, customized taxation, tax-exempt transactions, B2C or B2B — everything is handled for you. There were four unfilled software products and B2B SaaS products and a variety of different offerings. I think that was surprising for me.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? People talk about B2B marketing. Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF? How does David think about scaling sales teams? But you said before there’s an important step missing when it comes to B2B.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this than that, how can we prepare for a variety of scenarios so that we can nimbly respond to whatever comes our way and adapt in accordingly to the situation? And what’s the best case? What’s the base case?” And really, that’s essential.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2025

Rory and his partners have been early investors in HubSpot, DocuSign, Box and so many other B2B leaders. Multi-Stage Funds Crushing Seed : Traditional seed firms are being outcompeted by multi-stage funds like Green Oaks, who can lead seed rounds, follow-on at A rounds, and leverage lower capital costs to dominate early-stage investing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

B2B and high-ticket B2C buyers are watching product deep-dives, expert interviews, and tutorials to guide their buying decisions. Learn from companies winning at YouTube On a list of 12 lessons from the VP of Marketing at Owner, Davids top lesson is that YouTube is ridiculously untapped for B2B. Long-form = higher intent.

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