Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We helped facilitate record growth for our customers. On average, our customers’ revenue grew by nearly 20% relative to 2019. We have always operated FastSpring with the mantra that “we succeed when our customers succeed,” and it was very gratifying to see so many examples of this in 2020. We acquired SalesRight.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Wade Foster is Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, a SaaS company that allows users to integrate web applications they use. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor. Deep Dive Session: “How to make legal part of your strategic revenue team” Gitlab VP of Legal Jamie Hurewitz. The Deep Dives ??.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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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. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. Then something really interesting happened.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode provides elastic APIs & dedicated node services, as well as powerful tools & analytics. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. will build upon machine learning and artificial intelligence to process information with almost human-like ability.

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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. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. What is Buffer.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. Market Characteristics ??

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Common issues of the billing bottleneck include: Not having correct billing in place when new products launch.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users. SaaS operators have the expertise but are continuously blocked with foundational issues that take time and energy. Joining forces to drive SaaS revenue.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an investor who brings real world operating experience to his job.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. Sometimes I’ll wear a strategic hat when I’m building out the technology or business roadmap.

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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. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. What is Buffer.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? Have they created something new before? Have they ever created a new program, created a new event themselves, and how do they talk about what they care about? I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever.

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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. Compliance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. They don’t have an agenda.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? And I think what it taught me on the operating side was that consistency is absolutely fundamental scale. And that was one of the things that I had learned from an operating standpoint. Yousuf Khan: Yes.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So this is Dharmesh.

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Stax

APRIL 16, 2025

Stax CTO, Mark Sundt , recently sat down with John Gaffney from PYMNTS for an eye-opening conversation about the exciting future of AI and how it’s poised to revolutionize the business world. With MPC, theres a whole new world of possibilities. But Mark also knows that jumping into AI isn’t something to take lightly.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. So this is Dharmesh.

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Scytale

APRIL 9, 2025

With cyber threats, data breaches , and new compliance rules popping up all the time, how do businesses keep their data safe? In this article, well break down ISO 27001, what its technical controls are, and how these controls help protect your business and keep your customers’ data secure. Lets get started!

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. User retention measures how many users continue to use your product or service after their initial interaction or sign-up. If retention slips, you end up overspending on acquiring new users instead of growing revenue from those you already have.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

VCs operate in one of two modes — greed or fear. While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. Missing your financial plan in the middle of a financing.

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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. Cassie, welcome.

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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) Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) It’s all transactional revenue.

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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.

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