The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

They expect an end-to-end shopping “experience” and this is where eCommerce subscription has a chance to shine by developing long term relationships with consumers. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer. The subscription eCommerce market has grown by a whopping 100% year-over-year for the past five years.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one. In the U.S.,

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Merchant Services Payment Services Systems Review Technical Review 88

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Notey Labs. SurePromise.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 274

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. The value prop is shifting from payments and ticketing to helping event creators grow their ticket sales. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. A lot of the software and digital products we use online, we use continuously. The best part?

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 90

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. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

Merchant Services 75

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% Our 2024 retreat will be our first full company retreat since 2019, and we plan on budgeting $5,500 per person (roughly $440,000 total).

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2011. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In between Q1 of 2011 and Q2, HubSpot dropped their monthly churn rate by nearly 1%. The traditional method of calculating LTV is actually pretty simple: Average value of a sale × Number of repeat transactions ×. A customer spends $50 every month at their favorite online clothing store for 5 years.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

billing, product, CRM, support), to deploy and test personalized user experiences that actually save customers, and to hire product managers with the time to run ongoing experiments, track results, and optimize at scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I think you’re only the second person since COVID started who’s come into the Intercom podcast studio here in the Dublin office. Alex: Well, at this time, in 2011 or 2012, startups were not a big thing in France or Europe. Alex: Well, the idea came a long time ago from a personal need. Alex Delivet: Thank you.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

This is especially true for SaaS businesses, where it’s common for customers to either come in through or go through a free trial after an initial engagement method (think ads, news articles, or referrals). After the visitor “converts” from website visitor to trial user, they stop marketing or selling. Opt-in Free Trial.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2011. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. The company has invested in ride-hailing, retail, online media, and electric car makers both inside and outside China. Founded: 2011. Size of fund: $25.5M. Stage: Seed. SaaS Investments: Easyship and others.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

But at the same time website traffic keeps climbing, indicating that buyers are still doing research and engaging with businesses. You might start by testing 25% or 50% off for the next six months to boost your conversion from website visit to qualified opportunity. Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amber also offers AmbarConaz, an online marketplace connecting supply chain and construction sites. Founded in: 2011. Creditas is an online marketplace for asset-backed consumer loans. It provides a variety of loans, including property-backed loans, personal loans, vehicle-backed loans, payroll loans, and salary advances.

Payment Methods 10

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 10

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. Best For: Product Adoption. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee. The rest is history.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 245

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. At the time, we were all based in Dublin.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. Stripe wrote in a blog post , "Since Stripe launched in 2011, tens of thousands of businesses across Europe have asked us to expand Stripe to their countries. Stripe Expands Across the Pond. Teachable Announcement.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things. Then you get them to your website. What the hell happens when they land on your website? What the hell happens when they land on your website? It is effectively the app store for the web, but it’s weirdly even more addictive.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Would you be frustrated if you discovered that tons of your potential customers are leaving your ecommerce website (and that your conversion rates are in the pits) because of a poor visitor experience? Today, I’ll go over the 12 rules I follow to create a shopping cart experience that’ll grow your ecommerce conversion rates.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. The closer you are to B2C and, to some extent, eCommerce, you’re going to see more impacts in SMB, and in infrastructure, cloud and enterprise you’re going to see less.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 187

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. In a nutshell, look at how much revenue you want to earn from each customer and the methods you want to use to attract your customer to build a better pricing strategy. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). The USP of the company is personalized video content – leveraging video content for interactions helps businesses increase their sales.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

Deep Instinct is an online security firm specializing in deep learning. It includes many payment choices and real-time tracking features and provides a SaaS-enabled platform for managing taxi management’s end-to-end business activities. It can store petabytes of data in a single blade, giving it mainframe capabilities.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Set rules that automatically route tasks, files, data to the right person or team. Scope out the solutions on the vendor website to see examples of who’s having success with each product. Although many low-code platforms are built for general use, Creatio was originally founded as bpm’online in 2011.

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Payments Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Services 131

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries. That has turned into a big win for Google.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange. They’re overwhelmed by the payment decision of which plan to buy. Let’s get started.

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Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior? Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”.

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Development Team Review Software Review Management SaaS Payments 153

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 12, 2022

Owing to several reasons like social distancing, health issues, cooking fatigue, and so on, people started ordering food online… more than ever. This gave a huge boost to the FoodTech industry and has given rise to Online Food Ordering platforms. Restaurants must pay high commissions to 3rd party apps for online food delivery.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Technical Review Payment Methods 10

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

About: Another successful SaaS company serving thousands of happy clients since founded in 2011. AB Tasty is a cloud-based platform that offers businesses easy-to-use tools for A/B testing, personalization, and user engagement. It operates in more than 30 countries providing its customers with a cloud-based localized phone presence.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

First, let’s take a look at Help Scout , a help desk software launched in 2011. PI provided data and insights on Help Scout’s current pricing structure, annual payments, and grandfathering system. We’ve helped thousands of companies maximize revenue by adjusting their pricing. Let’s take a look at some of the scenarios we were handed.

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

My personal frustration was not reason enough to launch a company, but I quickly realized just how acute and pervasive these problems were for a variety of roles across many industries. With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems.

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Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payments 41

Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

Then they gradually increased it to the current 2000 subscriber limit which was introduced in 2011. You might want to consider this model if you have a product where one account can have several users who each need personal access to the software. It’s important to understand that their product lends itself to the freemium model.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Buffer Funding History $120,000 through AngelPad start-up accelerator in August 2011 $330,000 seed round in December 2011 $3.5M After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M worth - their story is uniquely turbulent in a number of ways.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Transforming the design landscape since 2011, Sketch continuously upgrades itself for the newest technical environments. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. In a press release , the financial process automation firm confirmed a 124% increase in its payment volume. Eventbrite.

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