SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. Notey Labs.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

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 that was the origin story.

Payment Solutions 101

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 101

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril. Jump to video.

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Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 146

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Enter the platform company. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

Payments 143

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 143

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

Sales Hiring 88

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 88

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

Payment Services 69

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 69

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. You take all of your assets , liabilities , revenues , expenses , investments, etc. What does cash flow modeling software do? Top options for cash flow modeling software 1.

Payment Services 95

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

Benchmarks 135

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 135

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. What made you want to be a part of this consultancy?

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. I was amazed by the app exchange.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 145

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 132

SaaSHolic

JULY 31, 2023

TLDR: Probably when your company hits $5M+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Let’s dive into it: Pre-Revenue → You In the earliest days, successful founders need to be extremely efficient: drive as much productivity as possible with the few resources they have until they “hit something.” Keep it simple.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 105

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Our team is in Room 111.

Scale 148

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 148

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for.

Payment Solutions 142

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 142

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. There is a problem if you and your business are still relying on paper trails and old-school bookkeeping to manage your expenses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? QBO self-serve integration.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Merchant Services 52

Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Some of these folks will likely be developers. What Are Coding Bootcamps?

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Cybersecurity Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 108

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For other businesses, an expansive blog-style platform reaps the full benefits that content marketing has to offer. We’ve taken the approach of sharing every piece of our journey, so it may help other SaaS businesses out there take their first big leaps, and that’s worked very well! Take Baremetrics for instance.

Content Marketing 113

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Investment Marketing 113

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Fortunately, for any pain point you can think of, someone has carefully crafted a best-in-class subscription business tool to solve the problem. Payment processing. Almost half (49%) of American consumers switched companies in 2019 due to poor customer service. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

Scale 114

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 114

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Our team met with David just a few days after our initial conversation in San Francisco.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 207

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Very few of our early-stage investments have a Customer Success team at the time we invest. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. The amount of annual revenue your business generates will determine which formula to use.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. the right for 1,000 people to use a SaaS service) – so the payment structure is purely financial in nature and not related to customer value. Payment structure. $1M. GAAP revenue. $1M.

Deferred Revenue 74

Deferred Revenue Pricing Payments SaaS Payments 74

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

You may start to miss your revenue targets. As a business leader, the way you face adversity could very well determine your chances of success. Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you. Even if you don’t completely ignore finance, you may be managing it the wrong way.

Startup 40

Startup Part-Time VPE Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 40

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Building a strong pricing strategy starts with hiring a professional team to conduct a pricing audit. A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Monetization. Next is monetization.

Payments 45

Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Plus, Pipe, a B2B SaaS financial platform, raises $6 million. And finally, David Cancel drops the mistakes he says will tank even the best business idea. We know and love eBay as the classic ecommerce platform that’s nailed it in that space since the 90s. Today, eBay may be looking to subscription to amp up its ecommerce reach.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? What sort of terms make them less beneficial for the vendor? *

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 128

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

Merchant Services 51

Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Technical Review 186

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 186