OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

You, personally, have probably cut out your personal trainer sessions and put off buying that new living room couch, right? We’re all human beings experiencing the same things in our personal lives — but these are the exact same priorities our prospects and customers are experiencing. Eliminating discretionary spend.

Payment Services 99

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 99

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. They just looked like hard work.

Retention 223

Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Throughout the series we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. Loved by the WordPress community at-large, Gravity Forms is praised as the “ best contact form plugin ” for websites powered by WordPress. Born from a personal need. The power of community.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Payments Payment Solutions 40

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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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 126

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. You see a huge variety of different SaaS businesses and I want to touch on the different profiles, how they acquire and retain customers, and more.

Scale 131

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 131

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How many meetings is normal to have in this process? What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? How long do they last? 242: It’s the employees’ market.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 145

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. Would customers stretch out payment terms? Challenges: How would these constraints impact the business? What would the economics of the business look like? How quickly would customers churn?

Sales Recruiting 40

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services Forecasting 40

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

Payments 156

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 156

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. in debt to buy out their investors.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. Self-Service. Focus: Product and Customer Journey.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. The company has invested in ride-hailing, retail, online media, and electric car makers both inside and outside China. Founded: 2008.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Reduce failed payments.

Blockchain 90

Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 165

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 151

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 151

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. We have one HR person, they have 1000.

Payment Services 138

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 138

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. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

Payments 104

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 104

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. And, yes, in a few of these conversations your customers might say that they have new business for you, too, but don’t you bring that up. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead. Smart guy. Develop subscription models.

Payment Methods 54

Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Maybe you want to launch a business. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP.

Technical Review 205

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 205

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services. Facilio Inc.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 167

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Freemium acquisition built a huge base of users who are monetized through ads. There are additional revenue opportunities outside of music streaming and discovery that can convert these users but will require Spotify to move away from consumerized thinking. Spotify is known as one of the top curators of music and audio content.

Payments 63

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Pricing 63

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

For over a decade, I’ve been doing business as a Whale Hunter. As an enterprise account consultant, I’ve consulted with hundreds of small and midsize companies (most in the range of $10m to $150 annual revenue) and trained thousands in how to grow fast by selling big deals into the enterprise market. But you couldn’t be more wrong.

Outsourcing Services 75

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 75

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Look at Eric Yuan at Zoom.

Sales Hiring 145

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. How does Chen think about aligning revenue scale to your customers? Chen Amit: But, all the rest of my career was starting new businesses. How can this be done?

Sales Hiring 257

Sales Hiring Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 257

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Our own SaaS originated as an internal solution for a leading payment gateway provider. The origins of Fintech SaaS From its origins as a B2C payment enabler to a staple across insurance, lending, compliance and more, Fintech SaaS now boasts a solid foothold within B2B and B2B2X markets. Let's get into it!

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payments Technical Review Payment Services 75