SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Irregardless of that, the trajectory of your company is forever changed, right? So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

Sales Hiring 229

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 229

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Commission structures are most often found in industries that are sales heavy or that deal with direct sale services or products but lack a storefront. If an employee sells a service or product for $1,500, they will receive a commission of $150. In turn, errors in commission payments can happen if you are not careful.

Sales Hiring 130

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 130

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. 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.

Payments 133

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 133

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul. Takeaway: For a culture to be strong, everyone needs to be on board. Chances are you'll hear some nuance in there.”.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

In the first 10 years of the SaaS industry, US SaaS companies didn’t need to go overseas to build highly valuable companies. But that dynamic has changed in lockstep with the growth of the SaaS market. High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Company Maturity.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In our mission to increase the GDP of the internet, we work with both small startups and public companies, helping them remove the complexity of processing the payments that are the heartbeat of every business. Stripe is a company built by developers, for developers. This isn’t the typical SaaS sales approach.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 40

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Successful SaaS companies grow in two ways: by acquiring new customers and by retaining existing customers (i.e., The most successful businesses create repeatable processes that lead consumers to become advocates. Determine the roles, processes, and tools required to support the customer objectives at each stage.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Outsourced Development 52

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Commission structures are most often found in industries that are sales heavy or that deal with direct sale services or products but lack a storefront. If an employee sells a service or product for $1,500, they will receive a commission of $150. In turn, errors in commission payments can happen if you are not careful.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Sales Business SaaS Payments 52

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The idea for Pendo arose out of a need I had experienced first-hand while working as the VP of Product at an enterprise SaaS business. Like many others in the SaaS space, we adopted a product-led approach to growth. Those strategies make sense for a lot of companies, but there are outlier cases that make use of other models.

Sales Hiring 41

Sales Hiring Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 41

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Amarachi Ogueji. Anita Toth. Annette Franz. Christina Crawford Kosmowski.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success SaaS Payments Scale 21

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

This is an especially important stage, especially for SaaS startups. This is the stage where you identify an existing problem and understand how your product or service solves the problem. As a SaaS startup, your biggest task would be to land your first customer. If you find yourself in this stage, congratulations!

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

Sales Recruiting 231

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 231

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers?

SaaS Payments 293

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 293

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

Scale 154

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 154

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

Scale 160

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Eric made his way into the world of startups and SaaS. What were the biggest challenges in the process? * Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? How did Eric find raising the Series A as a non-Bay area company?

Sales Hiring 164

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting 164

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). How did he see his decision-making process change post raise?

Payment Methods 113

Payment Methods Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 113

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Technology Enables Strategy; Doesn’t Define It. Sales Process Engagement.

Customer Success 137

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 137

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 2, 2025

Choosing the right SaaS (Software as a Service) tool can make or break a business in today’s digital age. Unfortunately, such scenarios are common when businesses dont choose their SaaS solutions wisely. Unfortunately, such scenarios are common when businesses dont choose their SaaS solutions wisely.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Technical Review 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? I would say we are more successful in serving larger companies when they’ve either scaled with us, or scaled really fast. So they have fairly simple processes, but they might be many people.

Scale 142

Scale SMB SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 142