SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Founders may reduce staff, particularly in recruiting or new projects that the company prefers not to finance. The chart above, copied from David Skok’s great SaaStr presentation , shows the unit cash flow for monthly payment plans. By collecting the cash up-front, startups neutralize this effect. Six months to ramp.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest decisions you can make when setting up your sales team is whether to focus primarily on inside or outside sales. They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. Hiring guide.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

How to Design a Sales Comp Plan to Get You to $100M with Work-Bench, Movable Ink, MongoDB and Concert Finance. This panel will speak tactically to various comp design options as a way for management to determine and promote ideal behavior in their front-line teams. Meghan Gill | VP of Sales Ops @ MongoDB. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The process and fee structure may differ for different types of payments depending on which service you choose. Some services offer unlimited payroll processing, while others limit the number of times you can issue payments every month. So, carefully consider how often you need to send payments when making your final decision.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. Your first sales playbook.

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SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

But, I’ve found when you actually look at the work to be done inside of high-growth startups there are some gaps that don’t always fit into a common org chart. . There are a handful of less obvious roles that can make an immediate positive impact on almost any high-growth startup. Is it time for a sales engineer?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some startups can get away with managing HR initiatives on their own in the beginning, but this quickly becomes unrealistic and cumbersome if or when you scale your business. They offer specialists in HR, risk management, benefits, and every other area for your human capital needs. The answer is likely much more than you prefer.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“The prevailing go-to-market structure for SaaS companies in the last decade is through an inside sales team. Virtually all inside sales teams were forced to go remote in mid-March and haven’t been back in the office since. Teams are starting to ramp back up, and the next chapter of inside sales is a little wild.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This is a program where we invite luminaries from the startup world to share their insights. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Who is this person?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Today, we’re all about ecommerce. We have a list of podcasts for the ecommerce-righteous crew out there, plus 2Checkout hosts a webinar, and Rewind partners with BigCommerce to bring you a Black Friday playbook. The pods on ecommerce. Melissa Presti from Jungle Scout compiles a list of 13 ecommerce podcasts to get your mind set.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While it includes your revenue model(s) and thus revenue stream(s), it also includes everything else from marketing to developing, recruiting, and operations. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. The primary constraint for a startup business is the unpredictability of financial flows.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. If you missed episode 153, check it out here: Learning Drives Sales Effectiveness with Paul Fifield?.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Customer Success Manager: This person is responsible for customer relationships and experience as well as acting as the voice of the customer.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. They recruit sports athletes, and offer a bunch of things for the sports athletes pretty cool. How are we going to do that?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The new data reveals a similar picture for private SaaS startups. . But top performers have begun to far outpace their peers, especially for startups with less than $10M in ARR, and the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ has gotten wider than ever. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But sales is the one thing founders cannot oversee — without it your startup will die. Startup founders are stretched thinly like silly putty. But the one thing you must think about is sales. Without sales, your startup dies. Yet, sales is all too often a dirty word. Your first sales playbook.

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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. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

There are plenty of happy smiling recruitment videos for call centers on Youtube but the real data on how people feel can be found in the comments section. Every call center ceo/manager should spend AT LEAST a full shift on the phone." This job has given me a fear of talking on the phones.” Don't let them know that.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

A retention specialist job description outlines the key responsibilities, must-have skills, and qualifications needed to nurture customer relationships, reduce churn, and maximize customer lifetime value through personalized engagement and data-driven strategies. It can also include preferred skills, experience, and certifications.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

The best companies are tweaking sales systems, adjusting their go-to-market strategy and rediscovering customers’ needs as they evolve. Related: The Recession Planning Framework for SaaS Startups. Pivoting sales to meet buyers. What you do now in sales, marketing, product, etc.—and Everyone needs to find their own way.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Workday, a company that sells software for human capital management, beat its earnings and sales estimates for the second quarter. Her approach to workplace culture has startups and corporations perceiving her as a 'powerhouse of fresh air.' They have rent payments. Workday Beats Estimates. They have obligations.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

They help you understand how to optimize your website, web app, or landing page. It helps you watch and replay recordings of your website visitors in real time as they navigate your site and interact with your web elements. You can watch sessions to learn: What your website visitors see on different screen resolutions.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Today, we have advice for the newbie managers out there. And, why your sales outreach should be a bit warmer. Mastering manager-ing. So we hear you’re a new manager. At 2x its final private valuation and a triumph for investors, Visa will now own financial services API startup Plaid. Your top subscription news.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each year, Comparably releases a list of the best companies to work for—in regard to items like compensation, career-personal balance, perks, and happiest employees. Buildium creates a software that helps property management companies become more efficient and profitable. They have rent payments. Check out the full rundown here.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

AB Tasty is a cloud-based platform that offers businesses easy-to-use tools for A/B testing, personalization, and user engagement. It also provides easy-to-use features for optimizing websites to help them grow and increase conversion without needing extensive technical knowledge. . Headquarter: Paris. Founder/CEO: Alix de Sagazan.

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