SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

From our experience providing integrations to thousands of customers, here are the three key business process automations to help your growing company scale faster: 1. Through every sales cycle, there’s a need to share information from sales, accounting, customer success, and other teams. Quote-to-Cash. Customer 360.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. And I wanted to share a little bit of my experience and the company’s experiences of building the company to a scale that we are today. Good afternoon.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. The new term “AI application as a service” (AIS) describes companies selling AI-powered applications to mid-market and enterprise customers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Not having a traditional sales team sure helps. Never let it be said that SaaS can’t generate a lot of cash at scale. #3. I’d argue No until you are at scale. But once you are at scale, they can have a massive impact. #4. Transition to Cloud takes time at scale. Channel partner sales growing 130%.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Robert Butler, Chief Commercial Officer at Payrix, has spent over 25 years in fintech and has most recently grown Payrix from $4 million to $100 million in ARR over the last four years, leading to a successful buyout and the launch of Worldpay for Platforms. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10 Lessons Learned Scaling to $1B Valuation with Drift’s Co-founders : Reaching unicorn status is nice validation, but the luster fades when founders can’t navigate the hidden challenges that come with uncharted territory. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? He also shares some eye-opening insights on how Expensify scaled over the years. Expensify scaled by breaking through the clutter. Nobody wants to refer a service that may not be able to deliver. The Shield: market consensus.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Funding to Date : $6.6M CEO : Rodrigo Dantas.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

We’re seeing more and more companies, particularly cloud companies with the ability to scale, and grow even more rapidly in the new normal. Nail it Before You Scale it . Cloud Marketplaces. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever. Cloud mutiples are going up. Product-led Growth.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2022

Atlassian spends about 40% of its budget on R&D and only 15% on sales and marketing, which is a different approach than many companies take. Bharadwaj recommends investing more on the “building” side of the business that focuses on creating the best possible product for the customer, with sales focusing most of their efforts on expansion.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

More people are adopting cloud-based products across industries leading to rapid digital transformation and SaaS hypergrowth. How can you scale while staying relevant to the user? She also discusses how these tools can provide value from the initial launch to a hyper-scaling mode. billion dollars. There will be competition.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Learn how Pendo can help companies go from startup to scale-up here. Predictable Revenue outlined the four pillars of outbound sales development and talked about how they’re helping companies investigate markets before building out sales teams, and also explained how the company helps customers create a link between targeting and messaging.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 18, 2013

Here's another post in my series on DOs and DON'Ts for early-stage SaaS startups : 6th DO for SaaS startups Fill the funnel Or: Focus on inbound marketing, but try lots of things and double-down on what works In this post I'm going to write about lead generation for SaaS startups. That's the whole idea of inbound marketing and lead nurturing.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? A buyer persona is one of the best tools your sales reps can use to close a deal. Show their prospects that they understand who they are and what they need. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. You can create whatever combined word you’d like for that to be the case.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are at the forefront of this evolution, leveraging recurring revenue models to build deeper customer relationships and drive growth. Reduce Operational Overhead: Delegating sales and distribution to partners minimizes the resources required to scale.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 1, 2025

From offering innovative service bundles to managing intricate pricing structures, the ability to provision complex subscriptions seamlessly has become a competitive necessity. In this post, well explore how businesses can simplify complex provisioning and stay ahead in a market increasingly driven by personalized service packages.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2020

Tomorrow as part of Algolia’s SaaS Expert series I’ll be talking about scaling top SaaS companies. Come join us for an open discussion on how to scale faster and better here ! Register here: [link] pic.twitter.com/E8LmXuEYge. Do you know what companies the SaaS industry is increasingly relying on?

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A powerful CRM helps organize customer data, streamline sales pipelines, and automate marketing ultimately boosting revenue. Effective sales teams are also 81% more likely to be consistent CRM users , underscoring how vital these systems are for success. Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. I highly encourage you to read his blog post and watch his talk.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scaling work: tuning the underlying technologies or process to help the product and team continue to be effective e.g. Uber rearchitecting its data pipelines. In Eventbrite’s case, the company was: Integrating the acquisition of Ticketfly to move up-market in a specific vertical and build an enterprise sales motion.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

I hosted Kate and Vanessa on the podcast, where we talked about everything from scaling design teams to how to earn a seat at the decision-making table. As a team lead, you need to be prepared to steer. It was an incredible place for me to learn: about ecommerce, about scale, and just in general about management practices.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. Customer acquisition.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales Stack 2022 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2022: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2021: Sales Tools. Sales W hich challenges would you like sales technology to solve for your sales team? What is sales technology here to do?

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

In addition to cache static files, the platform stores and accelerates the delivery of dynamic pages of websites, blogs, and e-commerce stores. Metatext offers a solution to help SaaS entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as customer services, marketing and insights. leading the team to a smooth agile transition.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Prospective customers have to be educated. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. There is one problem though with this, and that really leads me to the reason why we decided to completely throw away the code base in 2014 and start from scratch. The marketplace was doing well.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For startups creating categories, the value of dominating a market while scaling can result in operational benefits as well. It can lead to everything from greater access to funding to more resources that can help attract top talent. Naturally, this can also lead to more market share and higher valuation multiples. .

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Recently, I had an opportunity to chat with Thomas about his experiences and I asked him to write about SMB SaaS channel distribution for this blog because his perspective on the opportunity is unique. With a self-service model, customers who have more specific needs are left in the cold. Thank you, Thomas, for sharing your insights.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

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. There was not a lot of outbound sales or marketing.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. The marketplace is designed to cut down on the time you need to sell your business and find startups to invest in. Micro Acquire.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. Let’s get selling! What Is B2B Ecommerce?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales Stack 2023 Sales Tools for Professional B2B Sales SALES STACK 2023: Sales Tools for. Professional Sales SALES STACK. 2022: Sales Tools. Sales share this with your network S ales tools and figuring out what your sales stack 2023 should look like is as challenging as ever.

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