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. Lessons for scaling high-growth organizations.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 156

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

Pre-startup stage Startup stage Scaling and Growth stage Maturity stage. 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. Like what you are reading? Sign up for our newsletter.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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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.

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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?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 296

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?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting 166

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Before that, Jeppe was the CFO @ Tradeshift where he first hand saw their scaling to 190 countries with offices in 6 different locations. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale?

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Scale SMB SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 145

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think.

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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). What does Robert mean when he tells founders, “Don’t try to scale”?

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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.

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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.

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