User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

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. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. For most startups, that’s the difference between life or death. That’s your ideal.

Sales Hiring 226

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire Scale 226

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. .” The process to change price points can’t happen in real-time. costs money and 2.

Payment Features 51

Payment Features Subscription Merchant Services SaaS Payments 51

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers.

Payment Methods 61

Payment Methods Scale SMB CTO Coach 61

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. 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.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

Sales Recruiting 227

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 227

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side.

Technical Advisors 228

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 228

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together. He had a sense for it.

B2B 173

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 53:46) Debunking the myth that cold outreach is dead. (57:57)

Scale 112

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 112

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.

Scale 78

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 78

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

VP of Engineering 150

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 150