Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

The SaaS fundraising market remains ebullient through 2018 as vibrant M&A and an open IPO window trigger substantial liquidity for shareholders. A while ago, I pulled up the Redpoint website from a decade ago, when the bios of the partners said things like “I invest in the internet. Machine learning fades as a buzzword.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you hear the word “haunted,” odds are the first thing that comes to mind is not ecommerce. But in keeping with the Halloween theme, I’m going to discuss five key factors in ecommerce that you don’t want to come back to haunt your software company. Goblins, Ghouls, and Global Regulations | GDPR & PSD2. The root of the cause?

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. An actively involved leadership team that gets to know customers personally. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Not only is almost everyone on the planet online, but they are also spending an average of 5.9 hours per day online. years before, and a significant portion of the time spent online has been via mobile. Payments are going digital. Transactions by Payment Channel. Data Personalization Effect on Engagement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018. Key regulatory changes included the creation of an open banking system, electronic payment funds, regulatory sandboxes, and digital identity verification. Instant payments streamline business Instant payments are a game-changer for B2B transactions in Mexico.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Existing QuickBooks Desktop users face the choice of upgrading to a newer version, switching to QuickBooks Online, or exploring alternative accounting software. However, it’s worth noting that Intuit has been steadily discontinuing versions of Desktop as far back as 2018 (QuickBooks Desktop 2020 was discontinued on May 31st, 2023).

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FastSpring

MARCH 5, 2019

Now you’re ready to sell online – congrats! Let us walk you through a few different questions to ask yourself before selling online in the US, including how to handle sales tax and data privacy regulations. Your website is stunning, your email campaigns look great, and your customer support forum is looking snazzy, too.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

But there’s another, more passive promotion method that can help grow your business and boost your local search results: Google Local Guides. There are several potential benefits of Google Guides for your business and its online visibility. Let’s start with one of the most crucial elements for businesses today: getting found online.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. While optimizing your website for Google search results is a good start, there’s still a disparity between map and web search results. “Near me” searches also rose by 500% in recent years.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

One such trend is the increasing number of software companies seeking to sell their products through multiple channels—offline through sales teams and online via ecommerce, as opposed to relying solely on one distribution model or the other. We also anticipate that hybrid models of these two sales methods (i.e.

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Frontegg

JUNE 3, 2021

Password authentication is basically a process where the end user inputs a unique ID and key to try and access the application or website. The provided info is verified against previously recorded and stored credentials that are stored in dedicated servers, which can be on-prem or in the cloud. Phishing attack example.

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SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Ryan Smith Qualtrics Founder/CEO. In 2004 he became CEO of MarkLogic where he stayed until 2010.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It’s almost 2018, and let’s face it: customers have incredibly high expectations and standards for online commerce experiences. Today’s online shoppers want to check out with as few clicks and barriers as possible – they expect a seamless checkout, they expect it to match your brand, and they demand fast (and successful !)

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

or tax on tangible personal property and don’t necessarily specialize in tax laws for digital products or international transactions. We simply provide you with a complete payment solution and take care of sales tax, VAT, and GST for you. FastSpring’s JavaScript Store Builder Library lets you add FastSpring elements (e.g.,

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue refers to the total earnings a company generates through its core operations like sales of products or services, rents on a property, recurring payments , interest on borrowings, etc. Affiliate Programs : Businesses earn a commission on sales of products by promoting referral links through their website and other online platforms.

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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. million ($47.3

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

There’s a reason most late payments are rewarded with fines: cash is king, and companies need to know when they can expect to be paid. In this post, we’ll discuss the main tool companies use to manage these delayed payments and mitigate potential damage to their cash flow: the Accounts Receivable (AR) Aging report.

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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. And so that was what you’re investing in.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

It offers a way to bring down customer acquisition costs and has been proven to keep users in a game for far longer than the pay-to-play method. In a Games as a Service environment, payments are unique and personalized, offering a wide range of accessibility to incoming gamers. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Your social network accounts, website, ads are visible to everyone who is browsing the internet. Successful SaaS companies go beyond describing their products and turn their websites into academies and universities.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill.com is a bit — OK, maybe a lot — more lower profile than many of the SaaS Unicorns to IPO lately, but it’s one of my personal favorites. It is also increasing Net Revenue Retention, from 106% in 2018 to 110% in 2019. First, we run SaaStr on Bill.com. I love Bill.com as a product. Almost always.

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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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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read With some vacation time now in our rearview we’re heading towards the home stretch of 2018, making it the perfect time to fill you in on what we’ve been up to at Outseta since our July company update. We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. Here’s the latest and what’s to come.

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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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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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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2019, it had over 45 million buyers , a notable increase from 2018. For instance, the page might display sustainable and educational items marketed toward children, seasonal clothes or accessories, and personalized and bespoke jewelry. Just follow these steps: Go to Etsy’s website and click Register at the top of the page.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For those of you who need some new ideas to boost sales, we just posted some fool-proof tactics to boost online sales here (link to the New Year Deal post). There’s no rule that says you have to run your online store all by yourself. Invest in an all-in-one ecommerce platform to make your life easier.

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Outseta

JULY 2, 2018

We typically start working with customers shortly after they’ve launched the first version of their website, which often is little more than a “Request Beta Access” or “Sign-up for Email Updates” form. The second major product priority is adding live chat functionality, both for use on your website and inside your application.

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Software Platform Consulting

JUNE 25, 2019

“In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, we facilitated nearly 14 billion healthcare transactions and approximately $1 trillion in adjudicated claims. Check out the network solutions results for the latest 12 months ending December 2018 (highlighted in yellow below): The network solutions group achieved 58% adjusted EBITDA margins.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

Businesses will often sell subscriptions at a discounted price, making it cheaper to buy products via subscription than buying in the store. Birchbox, for example, sells beauty products via subscription for less than it would cost to buy in the store. Let’s take Netflix as an example. Replenishment.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You mostly need repeat purchases to get payments with a subscription model and it is easier to impress existing customers than starting all over to acquire new ones. It was back in 2018 for Datadog where customers only opted for 1 product. E-commerce components scale it over website revenue. 110% NRR from payment add ons.

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Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. 2017 2018 2019 Total. I joined a number of online communities that are rich in SaaS founders. Our biggest expense, consulting services, is the salary we pay James for design work.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The way that CMOs are reacting, this is 2018 Gartner data, is that the budgets of CMOs are shifting from every category towards MarTech. So if we can pop up the Slido slide and I want to invite you all to take your phone and go on slido.com for this session so that you can start asking the panel questions. Pauline : Oh yeah.

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