Remove Payment Features Remove Sales Recruiting Remove Software Engineering
article thumbnail

7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.”

article thumbnail

A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Customer acquisition is basically how much do you spend in terms of sales people, sales team, and in terms of marketing to acquire a new customer. One is what I call the low touch sales model.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams. We were very, very focused on that fit – to be even more specific, on growing sales teams for high-tech products.

Scale 156
article thumbnail

10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. I’d need to learn to raise capital and recruit developers. I needed a disruptive idea.

article thumbnail

170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

Scale 137
article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

Scale 157