SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner and CPO Kelsey Stevenson share the three secret ingredients that helped them when scaling to $100M ARR and what they could have done differently. Kelsey joined them as CPO, and they started experimenting with less expensive packages downmarket where customers could go online and set up a subscription.

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Scale Scaling Underperforming Technical Team User Experience 306

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

I’m not ashamed to admit that when I set up our first SaaS sales comp plan, I had no idea what I was doing. But I did all the sales myself, and stupidly, had no sales comp plan at all ??. Then, as we first scaled up a sales team, we ended up literally copying Salesforce’s comp plan. A boiler room.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. Every customer-facing team is on the renewals team: customer success, sales, product, customer support, marketing, and of course, renewals. Improvements for a sales team and process are a ‘no finish line’ business. That work is never done.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Software Review 306

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mark Roberge , SaaStr fan-favorite and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital brought together some of the top CROs in SaaS during the SaaStr Annual to share some of their greatest learnings and pivotal moments leading some of the Cloud 100 SaaS companies. From a GTM execution standpoint, they weren’t focused.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. While annual/monthly subscriptions still exist, they are more complex than ever. Governance is a critical component of how you grow and scale.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. As you look to scale your business and make your processes more efficient, it’s essential to foster a shared understanding of who your target customer is.

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VP of Engineering Scale Scaling Sales Hiring 245

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2019

She will share her top 5 lessons learned in building and scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR including expanding to serve upmarket customers, moving from product to platform, and how to hire well to drive breakthrough customer experiences and business growth. Your upfront experience is key. Make that upfront purchase great.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

I’ll dig in, but a really great deep dive with MongoDB’s head of sales ops here: Four Sales Compensation Tactics for Consumption-Based GTM with MongoDB’s SVP of Sales MongoDB us a blended commission model for their consumption-based GTM. Thats a disaster for your business. using 20 out of 25 features).

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Scale Compensation Retention Churn 147

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. If you wanted to scale users and growth, you needed to scale a physical data infrastructure footprint. ” This used to be how companies scaled! It wasn’t very elastic. What does this mean?

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Cloud AI Scale Scaling 184

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model. Five years in, CircleCI implemented a usage-based subscription model. The transition from a traditional SaaS-based model to a usage-based model fundamentally ?changes

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Scale Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 264

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. It can be confusing to understand how and where you should charge sales tax. Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. Here’s why you should. .

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Payment Services compliance SaaS Payments Scale 335

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

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Payment Features Subscription B2B Mobile 306

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie. Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Jabari Norton, VP WW Partner and Alliances, Sumo Logic.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 262

SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2020

The last thing anyone needs is another CRM, another invoicing app, another quoting tool, another recruiting app, etc. Because SaaS and recurring revenue compounds. And especially when you are in the sub-$5m range, you can almost will yourself to grow faster as long as you have some customers and some leads. But you will.

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Scale Payment Features Engineering Product Marketing 362

SaaStr

MAY 26, 2021

How do you leverage a corporate blog to actually generate leads? And yet … done right, they are a critical part of your marketing and sales toolkit. And yet … done right, they are a critical part of your marketing and sales toolkit. And maybe that’s just 1 or 2 great prospects. There are 100,000,000+ blogs.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Leadership Mobile 298

SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

In scaling the cash-flow side of SaaS, there’s almost nothing more powerful than a nnual contracts combined with prepaid cash. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And as a result, even more chose monthly subscriptions.

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Payment Features Scale SMB Churn 299

SaaStr

MAY 22, 2022

The #1 Mistake I See Founders Make When They Hire Their First VP of Sales. SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie. That Matters More.

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Scale Sales Hiring Payment Features Marketing 306

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Offering a suite of solutions dedicated to supporting multifaceted billing needs and revenue operations, I believe Metronome serves as the perfect scaling partner for innovative businesses and software companies. Prior to that, she was President at Salesforce, responsible for the company’s worldwide sales organization.

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Scale Software Review Payment Features AI 289

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Dedicated Slack Channel For Every Metric From the early days at Secureframe, they have had a dedicated Slack channel for every metric: every net new sale, every expansion, every churn, and every expense. Work with Great Executive Recruiters ”The first time I saw an invoice for an executive search, I think I had a heart attack,” Shrav joked.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Engineering 304

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

5 Interesting Learnings: #1, 16,000 customers at an average of $100,000 per customer — with a mix of inside sales, field sales, and free trials. Multi-product is the key to growth at scale. As we’ve seen so many times in this series, it’s hard to scale past $100m ARR or so with a single product line.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

But even with SMBs, it’s the bigger ones that are driving growth at scale — 50% of ARR is now from customers with more than 250 employees. Going a smidge upmarket is key to Freshworks’ putting up the big numbers at scale. #2. 62% of revenue from annual subscriptions. NRR of 118%.

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Scale SMB Scaling Subscription 361

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Most billing and subscription management solutions let you: Build various trial and subscription models (e.g., free or paid trial and usage-based or fixed price subscriptions). Manage active subscriptions (e.g., Send invoices and/or payment notifications. We take the lead on audits.

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Payment Services Payment Features Merchant Services Payments 142

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2021

Q: What is a good model for SaaS product sales commission? The average package price is USD 500 for subscription/month. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. That’s pretty do-able for inside sales.

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Scale Sales Compensation Churn 238

Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

By Inga Broerman Preparing for Regulatory Changes in Subscription Management The subscription economy is thriving, with businesses worldwide adopting models that offer flexibility, scalability, and recurring revenue streams. However, as the industry grows, so does regulatory scrutiny.

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Payment Features Subscription Management compliance 52

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

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Scale Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 117

Payrix

APRIL 10, 2025

As a result, leading platform providers in the space are implementing strategic payment solutions to help generate more revenue from their existing customer base, create stronger relationships with users, and streamline the payment experience for everyone involved. This is common when outsourcing payments.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2021

This usually doesn’t happen in the very early days, when you just have a few employees and almost no real marketing or sales expense. It’s just, to invest in sales and marketing now, and make those extra hires, the burn rate is growing even faster at 12% a month after $100k MRR. Renewals take a few years to kick in.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Features Finance 331

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It is a subscription-based integrated payment platform that helps you process credit card payments. Quicken vs QuickBooks: Pricing If Quicken has one major advantage over QuickBooks, it is that its pricing is less expensive than QuickBooks’ subscription plans.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2022

SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium.

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Scale Sales Hiring Payment Features Marketing 277

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

But New Relic has continued to scale, crossing $650,000,000 in ARR (or so) and a $4B market cap. Slow growth means a low multiple. It’s the secret to scaling effectively. This is fairly common as companies go more enterprise, and the sales team especially wants to limit the use of free accounts and pilots.

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Scale Outsourced Development SMB Cloud 342

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. HubSpot’s Service Hub brings all your customer service data and channels together in one place, and helps scale your support through automation and self-service.

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Technical Review Customer Support Payment Methods Payment Solutions 249

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Sales might want a tighter “gate” to convert to paid. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. As more and more SaaS apps add a payments element, that payments element can really scale over time.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Scale 363

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We’ve talked a lot over the years at SaaStr of the different stages as you scale, and the first one you really hit is Initial Traction. But leads start coming in somewhat regularly, deals close somewhat repeatedly, etc. You don’t really hire the great VPs, and so leads stall. At scale, it may.

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Scale Sales Hiring B2C Mobile 287