SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

If we step back to 2004-2005, when BILL was just an idea, the first realization was that this had to be simple. With a trillion in payment volume coming through BILL in the last five years, managing the payment and compliance engine has required an ongoing effort of a sizable team. That’s the part that becomes a moat competitively.

SMB 272

SMB Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 272

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

FastSpring includes global payment processing and recurring revenue management, of course, but the platform also takes care of the end-to-end checkout process, including optimization of your checkout flow, collecting and remitting sales tax and VAT, localization, fraud prevention, global compliance, and more.

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 108

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. That’s where we met 11 years ago.

Scale 105

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 105

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. That’s where we met 11 years ago.

Scale 50

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 50

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. There’s not that many founders in the world that’s interested in doing global tax compliance for, let’s say, invoicing. Join Tradeshift founder and CEO as he shows founders how to take control of their destiny.

Payment Solutions 141

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 141

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Aaron Levie: I think what’s happening is, is companies are realizing that the really big sort of flip the business model on its head project and we’re going to go and do a distributed ledger technology and all this, that’s going to have to get punted because we’re in core survival mode right now.

Sales Recruiting 147

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Sales Hiring 147