Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Like any business, creating an app requires laying the groundwork before launch. Here’s a five-step guide for getting ready to launch your app, including how to do your research, ways to monetize your app , and what to include in your business plan. How are they monetized? Build an App Step 1: Do Market Research.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Sales Hiring 144

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. That doesn’t necessarily mean they care about a ton of users or revenue, although they like that, too. Let’s use Airbnb as an example. That’s it.

Payment Methods 219

Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 219

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. And if they are seed investing in the round (surprisingly common) — disclose it! Who is the CEO?

Finance 279

Finance Technical Review CTO Hire New CTO 279

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Chasing the wrong priorities and investments can quickly snowball and compound over time, resulting in stunted progress and flatline growth. That’s why it’s essential to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that create the most value for your customers and your organization. Build Phase.

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making regarding financing deals, from revenue-based financing (RBF) to term loans and lines of credit. What should VCs make of revenue-based financing? Turning revenue-based financing into pre-VC growth.

Venture Capital 61

Venture Capital Finance Payments Revenue 61

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

Sales Hiring 232

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 232

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.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 148

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

However, as they are multi-purpose in nature, you cannot expect these features to not be as in-depth and robust as more specialist platforms. Content management platforms. Whether you are a business writer or journalist, maintaining a personal blog is important. eCommerce platforms. An example of an information website.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

Scale 191

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 191

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

Scale 196

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 196

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this? Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.). However, integrated solutions can be rigid and aren’t always the perfect fit for growing businesses—kind of like trying to wear a shoe that’s one size too big. That’s no small feat.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services Payment Features 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Because you think he will benefit from plan B even more and make a larger payment. Here are the reasons! What makes any SaaS business stand on its own two feet? Yeah, revenue. Recurring revenue. 4 As companies grow, 80% of their revenue comes from 20% of their existing customers ( source ). #5

SaaS Payments 159

SaaS Payments Payments SaaS Payment Methods 159

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Valid question, and I’m going to answer it — because the reasons (plural) we have for investing in this initiative may not be as simple as the most cynical among us assume. As a business person yourself, you know how it works. They may even be able to weigh in on what’s coming down the pipe for FastSpring’s platform.

SaaS Payments 148

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Luckily for you and the tens of thousands of online businesses out there, a digital website builder makes it easy to create professional sites that function beautifully in no time. Do you want to start a blog to share your extensive knowledge and thought leadership with the world? E-commerce Platforms. The best part?

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 145

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Scroll to the right in the table below and filter for integrations to find what works for you. Drive Revenue. Terminus - Account-Based Marketing Platform for Quality Growth. Account Based Selling. Grow Your Pipeline.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

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. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

SaaS Payments 254

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 254

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

B2B 133

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 133

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If I had 1 mentor, just 1, Who said: If you are at $10m ARR, Growing 100%, With 150% net revenue retention, With 80% viral and free lead acquisiton, And 50+ NPS, Then, You have already build a unicorn-in-waiting. This CXO asked me if I could help him find a few good advisors to help them on the revenue side. If i'd had just 1.

Scale 354

Scale Sales Hiring Payments Banking 354

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

Sales Hiring 155

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 155

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. Christian Lanng : Yeah, first off, the you Jos, so, yeah.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You want your customers to make the payment decision as soon as possible. From an investment perspective, having your customers be public advocates of what you’re building can attract investors. Your product reviews on the G2 platform or in video testimonials demonstrate how much users love your product.

Payment Methods 176

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Company Culture Payment Solutions 176

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

While companies like Amazon, Alphabet, Tencent or Adobe might not label what they do a formal “strategy process,” their success owes much to tried and true principles of strategy development. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. It also involves adopting a new mindset.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring Payments 52

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Company Maturity.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. Leadership matters. The nature of the business changed, so why shouldn’t the multiple change with it?

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B. Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business. Membrain - Complete Platform for Complex B2B Sales. 360 Business Tool - CRM with Much More.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104