FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Joined by Katie Wickham, Payrix’s Director of Marketing, Butler shares essential tips on accelerating your business to $100 million ARR and beyond. . Brex then scaled its payments business quickly.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Many of the fundamental business models that were once engraved in the SaaS playbook are now changing thanks to a tougher macro environment and a maturing market. PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. Shuo Wang is the CRO and co-founder of Deel, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

SaaS accounting software can help you automate: Recurring invoicing. Payment processing. Payment reconciliation. Payment reminders. Subscription management. And more … However, it’s almost impossible to find one accounting software solution that satisfies all your needs as a SaaS company.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Let’s jump right into part one.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Send invoices and/or payment notifications. Provide your customers with a self-serve portal where they can manage their account. View reports on the key performance indicators that drive revenue. To learn more about how FastSpring can help you scale quickly, sign up for a free account or request a demo today.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Podcast Full Interview : Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. But marketplaces are so popular that they can make it hard for game devs to cut through the noise and actually get their target audience to land on their Steam page or other game store page. “If That is a platform that is endemic to gaming.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Toast is the latest SaaS leader to get much more efficient in the past 12-18 months, along with monday.com, HubSpot, MongoDB, and many others. Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR.

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Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. The potential impact of failed or inadequate internal systems, processes, procedures, etc.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 web services.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business.

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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. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. Transcript.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

It takes an enormous amount of time, money, and headcount for SaaS companies to handle VAT, GST, and sales tax (and any other form of indirect tax) in-house. Request a demo or sign up for a free account to see how FastSpring can help you expand globally almost overnight without adding headcount. on their own.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. But thankfully, that’s not what your payroll process has to look like. The 6 best payroll service options for 2020. Number of employees.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Who makes sure all your online transactions run smoothly? Who creates an online marketing strategy that’s consistent with company goals and objectives? And who manages the ecommerce team that creates a seamless online customer experience? Yep, the Ecommerce Manager gets to do it all. Know the Product.

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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. Why is cash flow modeling important for SaaS? and project them into the future. QuickBooks 4.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2020

But for today, we’re sharing some of the conversations we’ve had with folks recently about how they are responding, how they’ve adapted their work, and what it means for the future of SaaS. So, in this episode you’ll hear from: Kristin Habacht , Head of EDR Sales at Atlassian. Loren Padelford , General Manager, Shopify Plus.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. David used the U.S.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Messente is a global messaging SaaS that helps companies send SMS messages and PIN codes in countries around the world. But the platforms available at the time weren’t meeting his needs.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Used correctly, backlinks are an invaluable tool: they generate organic traffic to your website, foster important connections within your community, and ultimately help you hit your SEO growth targets semi-autonomously. Used incorrectly, however, incoming links to your website can land your business in some extremely hot water.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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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. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. For SaaS businesses, you use your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR) , churn, and average revenue per customer in addition to other transaction data to predict your future cash flow.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2021

Do you know what’s better than one sale? Multiple sales that happen automatically. While implementing a subscription model means ongoing revenue, it also brings up many challenges for managing those subscriptions. Why Shift to a Subscription Revenue Model. Reliable and Consistent Revenue Stream.

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 8, 2013

SaaS product management professionals should always remember that there are four P’s in marketing , one being product. This is a particularly costly mistake in SaaS and is the root cause of many a SaaS Don’t. The Boundless SaaS Product. What are the boundaries of your SaaS product?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York.

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