SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. But how do you track and strengthen these connections? Criterion Does It Deliver?

Software Review 52

Software Review Engagement Software Scale 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Sam’s Corner [33:50 ].

Marketplace as a Service 112

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 112

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. billion to $20.7

Marketplace as a Service 140

Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Our guess is that poor Polly from purchasing is gathering dust on a noticeboard in the canteen or buried somewhere deep in your internal network of folders. Perfectly position the product/service to their prospects. Speak empathetically to their prospects and develop stronger connections as a result. Your sales team.

Scale 131

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourcing Services Sales 131

BetterCloud

MARCH 17, 2025

SaaS budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and managing financial resources for acquiring and using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions within an organization. Whether youre new to SaaS budgeting or youre a seasoned pro, theres always something to learn about the best ways to buy software. What is SaaS budgeting?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Strategy Marketplace as a Service SaaS 52

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. But there is this other area of developer tools: the Twilios and the Stripes of the world.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Development 170

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Everything from a site builder, perhaps using a website template to web design and using social media to develop your new business website. This is just as bad as not having a website in the first place. Hosting Factor #2: Customer Service. Let’s go… Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Third-Party Sites to Build a Website.

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Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Marketplace as a Service Software Review 145

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. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? Low touch you’re gonna talk a lot about what we call customer success teams.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We’ll go over each one’s strengths and weaknesses while making sure you find one that fits your exact business. That can be a developer, a Funnel designer/builder, an Ad specialist, or a CRO consultant. You can see the Get Response team are bold as they’re the only software in the industry that uses an interactive headline.

Scale 142

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Consulting 142

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 175

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. And we’re not all building the most mission critical software, but our stakeholders don’t want to rip us out.

Sales Hiring 247

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 247

OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Those are some pretty great results for a small team—only about 50 people in the whole company—that needs to navigate the challenges of selling a horizontal product serving multiple audiences from single-player scenarios to enterprise deployments. Small businesses or teams who adopt it self-service.

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Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Scale B2C 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Michael Redbord has an answer for that.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for.

Payment Solutions 182

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 182

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Cognota didn’t necessarily start as a software business.

Payment Solutions 133

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 133

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? Maybe they’re early in their career.

Payment Methods 274

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 274

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales team.

Scale 143

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 143

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. What is Vertical SaaS? What is Horizontal SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Most often, you will find EHR software offered as one part of a complete array of tools for managing a practice. I definitely recommend reading reviews from actual customers about the kind of service they receive during and after implementation. If you are supposed to get a dedicated service rep, how dedicated are they?

Systems Review 143

Systems Review Healthcare Software Review Marketplace as a Service 143

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. It also integrates with over 400 other SaaS tools and software platforms like Salesforce, WordPress, Hubspot. One option is Webflow , which was labeled “the development platform of the future” by Smashing Magazine.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Our team at Neil Patel Digital has created this handy guide to help you find the best Facebook ad consultant who knows what he’s doing, without wasting your marketing budget or talking in circles. If you want to explore Facebook as a means to advertise your products and services for maximizing sales and generating leads, you need an expert.

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Advertising Consulting Scale Sales Hiring 123

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

online course, ebook, software), so you naturally want others to believe in it, too. Until that happens, you’ll find it difficult to sell your actual products or services. HelpScout doesn’t just try to sell help-desk software. Most people and companies think products and services sell because of their great features.

Sales 137

Sales Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 137

Chart Mogul

APRIL 24, 2020

With a pandemic underway, software-as-a-service businesses, in normal times the beneficiaries of relatively stable compounding growth, are now facing an existential threat: recurring revenue streams are drying up, at least in part. Was that the last wave of bad news?’ ‘I’m How bad will it get? Arrested attention.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Marketplace as a Service 98

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. Eventbrite now caters toward more modern music creators that share the need for intuitive and self-service experiences.

Scale 139

Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 40

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. I have a team of people who work on numbers.

Investment 113

Investment Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Software Review 113

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 206

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 206

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Start Listing your saas on Software and saas Marketplaces.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Historically, growth of a sales team was based on the revenue starting with $0M on day 1 of the year. However, in a SaaS model , the customer acquisition team can grow revenue to $1M in year 1. If the same team keeps performing at the same growth it will achieve $2M in year 2 – whilst the renewals come in at 100%.

Scale 100

Scale Growth Hacking Scaling Sales Hiring 100

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today’s digital marketplace is a vast and wild place. Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. It can get a little lonely out there. But don’t worry––we can help you jumpstart the process. . Ask yourself: .

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Advisors 93

OpenView Labs

APRIL 13, 2020

Proliferation of iterative, experiment-driven, nimble approaches to product development (also known as Agile). The convergence of these changes has led many to realize that “growth” is a team sport. Decisions made within the product can dramatically impact the success of a marketing team and the growth of a company.

Systems Review 98

Systems Review Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review 98

Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content. There are four pricing plans.

Payment Methods 133

Payment Methods Social Media Payment Services AI Search 133

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Sales Accepted Leads, on the other hand, already had their first, second, and third touch with your unique value propositions, product, or service. The answer lies in pop-ups.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Sales Payment Services 127