CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Sure, it’s awesome to get it right the first time, but it’s also pretty darned rare.) See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

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. Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing. Don’t leave revenue on the table, drive growth by optimizing your pricing.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. Market Characteristics ??

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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

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. If I look at where we’ve invested in companies, we’ve done a Series A where there’s no revenue and we’ve done a Series A where there’s mid-single digit recurrent revenue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: Would love to talk about finding those initial customers who you tested with.

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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. Contract length.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. You’ll save time and money in the long run.” Anything that falls into the Non-Strategic and Non-Critical the company should disregard; it doesn’t need to be part of their business.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 17, 2024

"Singular events can distort reality, but ChartMogul helps us see the bigger picture", says Patrick Craston, Intruder's CTO. Intruder provides ongoing monitoring to find security weaknesses in networks, websites, APIs, and cloud setups. Their system helps businesses spot and fix security problems quickly. What is Intruder?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, the industry is known for delays in projects and in payments, and small companies often struggle with cash management as they deal with multiple projects at the same time, relying mainly on excel and word to issue budgets and invoices, as well as manage their receivables across several projects.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. We felt confident that the profitability constraints the debt imposed would be healthy for the business. in debt to buy out their investors. They were doing $4.6M

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

QBO self-serve integration. QBO self-serve integration. All the benefits of Business, plus. We liked the fact that we could add our email to the Fyle expense tracking software to keep the business expenses updated. The person who is a part of the same project has to approve the expense report. HRMS Integrations.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? Find innovators (10:36). ? I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. But whatever that person’s title is, enlist them in the sales process. Find innovators (10:36). Map the money (14:58). ?

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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. Since then, its culture code has been viewed more than 4 million times. Chances are, that plan will fall short on actually retaining and recruiting top talent.

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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 came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. ” We had to do that three times. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Experienced payments and sales executive joins Stax leadership team to drive accelerated growth for Stax Connect and embedded payments. Stax Payments , Inc., a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. and Canada. and Canada.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

But finding out post-term sheet about too many material issues can lead VCs to run for the hills. 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. That’s probably OK.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. .” So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

Payment Methods 40

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? Here’s what Michael talks about: How quickly should you hire?

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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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