FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. Strategies for horizontal vs. vertical expansion models (18 minutes): Iterative Pricing With FastSpring.

Pricing 135

Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 135

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

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It then laid out a careful strategy to transform Adobe, largely via M&A, into a company offering cloud-based subscriptions that would “give everyone everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.” Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. Payment overdue.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

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

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. How the hell does that happen? We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145