SaaStr
APRIL 22, 2024
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Craft a Winning Investor Deck for an Early-Stage Startup? Here’s my #1 piece of advice: Get it all down to One Slide. "How to Create a Compelling Investor Deck: The Power of the First Slide" pic.twitter.com/AyyS7lHATz — SaaStr (@saastr) March 22, 2024 With 6-7 points on that slide. Not more. Not using 6 point font.
USIO
APRIL 22, 2024
SaaS companies are continually seeking innovative strategies to not just maintain but amplify their growth trajectory and increase revenue. One pivotal yet often overlooked area is payments. Integrating efficient payment systems along with offering revenue share will significantly impact a SaaS company’s revenue streams and overall expansion. We’ll delve into how SaaS companies are leveraging Usio Integrated Payment Solutions to propel their growth and increase revenue.
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SaaStr
APRIL 21, 2024
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Top 5 Things I Should Know Before Starting a SaaS Startup? My Top 5: It will take you at least 24 months to really get anywhere. Everyone mentally budgets 10–12 months. It’s never enough. At least, not to get enough paying customers from Code Zero. A little more here: [link] A co-founder not equally committed will blow up on you, and best case, is a disaster you will have to clean up later.
Clouded Judgement
APRIL 19, 2024
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Rubrik IPO Update This week Rubrik launched their IPO with an initial pricing range of $28 - $31 / share. This range represents roughly a $6B valuation at the midpoint ($29.50 / share), with a ~6.5x NTM revenue multiple.
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Payrix
APRIL 17, 2024
Congratulations! You’ve decided to offer Embedded Payments to your customers. Adding Embedded Payments gives you an exciting opportunity to grow your business and solve real pain points for your customers. And solving pain points for your business owner customers are important, with 80% of business owners stating that accepting multiple payment types is vital to their success and one in five businesses reporting that they would switch software providers to be able to accept all the payment types
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SaaStr
APRIL 20, 2024
"We all need more hackers on our team. Marketing hackers, sales hackers, product hackers. We lost too much of that. People that want to do the work because they enjoy the work." @searchbrat @zapier @kippbodnar @HubSpot @jasonlk pic.twitter.com/dUudpe9s2Q — SaaStr (@saastr) April 16, 2024 HubSpot and Zapier’s CMO had us on their “Marketing Against the Grain” pod / videocast.
Chargebee
APRIL 18, 2024
Chargebee’s London-based user conference, beelieve, hummed with excitement as it united trailblazers and innovators from the subscription and revenue growth sector. A standout moment was the “beelievers” awards, honoring visionary leaders and organizations shaping the subscription landscape’s future. Let’s explore the winners in each category, highlighting their exceptional contributions to efficiency, transformation, retention, revenue growth, and leadership.
Stax
APRIL 18, 2024
Accepting credit card transactions is no longer a decision of whether to but rather how to. With cashless now BEING king, credit and debit cards are the primary method for your customers to make payments. Pre-pandemic, 62.3% of consumer payments came through card payments. And electronic payments were at 14.2%, closing in on cash at 15.5%. While the figures aren’t from the COVID-affected spending period, it’s fair to assume that cash is down while cards and electronic payments are w
Subscription Flow
APRIL 18, 2024
How do you keep increasing your revenue in a marketplace that has reached its point of saturation? Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, especially in wealthier countries like the US and France, have reached this point where they have become so popular among their potential users that they are now really struggling to find new users. In such a scenario, what subscription-based businesses like these dating apps usually do is they redirect their energies into improving their customer lifetime value
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Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.
FastSpring
APRIL 16, 2024
Offering a frictionless checkout experience is essential for digital transaction conversion rates. Today, we’re excited to announce new payment method improvements available on the FastSpring platform: Apple Pay Pix Preferred Payment Method Apple Pay: Seamless Transactions Within the Apple Ecosystem As Apple Pay adoption continues to grow, incorporating Apple Pay into payment options becomes an essential part of your digital strategy.
User Pilot
APRIL 21, 2024
The one question that plagues all businesses alike: how to reduce support ticket volume? If you don’t work on effectively managing support tickets, you’ll see customer dissatisfaction rise and support agents struggle. All this leads to a poor customer experience and, inevitably, greater churn. In this guide, we will provide you with the steps you need to lower your support tickets and improve customer support !
Stax
APRIL 18, 2024
According to Forbes , “mobile payments are increasingly being used by U.S. shoppers as customers become more comfortable with the technology.” Not only are there a number of ways your customers could be using their mobile devices to give payments, but you as a business owner could be leveraging mobile devices to accept them as well. As stated by countless resources, mobile is the direction the payment technology space is heading.
Kellblog
APRIL 19, 2024
I’ve realized that one of things I do for (or should I say, to) early-stage startups is detect whether they have a real or a faux focus (pronounced fo-focus) — the latter being a focus that appears to be real at first, but is in fact fake. Focus is like baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. Needed. Timeless. And everyone’s in favor.
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Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 19, 2024
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his thoughts on how hardware for artificial intelligence might evolve over the years to come as we place more emphasis on AI inference workloads. Improvements in sensors, chips, models, and more could result in remarkably useful models that are able to run locally, resulting in wearable AI products that evolve the human experience.
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2024
Dear SaaStr: What Do You Do When Your Startup is Not Growing Anymore? First, be honest about why. You can blame it on macro issues if you want, but if growth has radically decelerated, it’s likely because you are less competitive than you were before. You probably have fallen out of product-market fit, partially or entirely. Be honest. And go close those feature gaps, and get back to being ahead of the competition — not behind.
User Pilot
APRIL 22, 2024
In SaaS, it’s advised to follow customer success best practices to ensure that users achieve their desired outcomes with your product and become loyal advocates for your brand. But what strategies work? In this article, we’ll share 17 best practices that you can implement today to increase retention , revenue, and engagement. TL;DR Customer success builds long-lasting relationships, increases customer retention , lifetime value , and advocacy, and informs product development.
Stax
APRIL 18, 2024
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. In this article, you’ll learn the differences between these providers and gain valuable insights for positioning your offerings successfully. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.
As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.
Buffer Resources
APRIL 16, 2024
Although my brother and I started our womenswear brand KESTAN as an e-commerce company, the real breakthrough for our online presence came when we opened our first brick-and-mortar store. Our retail stores succeeded because we were able to deliver an entire brand experience rather than just be content to try and sell products. We were able to create a cohesive visual identity that people loved to surround themselves with.
The Moz Blog
APRIL 17, 2024
In this blog post, Tom discusses the reasons why you might block AI bots. In many cases, this will come down not only to your beliefs about how this technology will evolve but also to the specifics of the business involved.
SaaStr
APRIL 22, 2024
So this is the time of the year when founders step down. Often quietly. Folks recover a bit from the end-of-year push, reflect, and sometimes … decide it’s time to bring in someone new. A CEO to take things to the next level. Etc. And even more of us think about it. Heck, I’ve thought about it several times over the years. I always try to talk founders out it handing over the reigns.
User Pilot
APRIL 16, 2024
Understanding how end-users interact with your product is crucial to identifying user experience bottlenecks. It also helps identify better ways to engage users. When combined with product analytics , end-user behavior monitoring can help you boost product usage and retention rates. It can even help maximize feature adoption. But how do you track and analyze end-user behavior?
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FastSpring
APRIL 18, 2024
FastSpring is proud to announce that our support team has won a Silver Stevie® award for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year in the “Technology Industries – Computer Software” category! FastSpring Support Rises to the Challenge It was clear to award judges that FastSpring’s team had moved strategically to make the voice of the customer the center of improvement efforts, with results showing in customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores, net promoter scores (NPS), and first response targe
Kellblog
APRIL 20, 2024
Just a quick post to share the slides of a presentation I recently gave on six principles that can help you optimize both your results and your career. The material, which should be familar to long-time Kellblog readers, is largely based on posts that I’ve written over the years and the last slide of the deck has links to specific posts. The six principles are: Answer the effing question (ATFQ).
The Moz Blog
APRIL 19, 2024
Discover the essential considerations for SEOs when building headless websites in this insightful Whiteboard Friday by Peter Richman.
SaaStr
APRIL 18, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Why Do Some People Loathe Sales? People loathe sales because they are making the mistake of mapping their experiences as, essentially, Very Small Businesses, as the general experience of a corporate buyer. Yes, you and I just want to buy in one click, on a website. I rarely if ever want to talk to a salesperson. Just think about buying a car.
Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University
You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.
User Pilot
APRIL 17, 2024
Want to understand what customers think and how they behave in your product ? If so, you need to invest in the right customer insight tools. These tools are perfect for providing valuable customer insights to make product improvements and optimize your customer experience. Read on to learn more. TL;DR Customer insight platforms enable informed business decisions by analyzing customer behaviors and preferences to improve products and experiences.
FastSpring
APRIL 18, 2024
For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. Some businesses outgrow their home countries after a seed or startup period that saw initial success domestically, while some businesses founded with niche markets or in smaller countries may need international sales as table stakes on day one. But with international growth comes a long list of international business concerns about how to appeal to potential customers in new countries.
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 19, 2024
Jennifer Li is being promoted to GP where she will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infrastructure and horizontal SaaS. Jennifer joined us 6 years ago as an investment partner, transitioning from a long-time operating role running product teams, and building developer tools, and ML applications. In that time she has gone from just learning about venture, to being one of the most impactful investors in the firm.
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