SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc. They still needed to process payments, track orders, ship orders, run financials, sign contracts, store data, etc.

SaaS Payments 278

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 278

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. The value prop is shifting from payments and ticketing to helping event creators grow their ticket sales. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

We’re talking about Singles’ Day—the biggest online shopping event in the world. In 2009, Alibaba and its founder, Jack Ma, decided to turn the anti-Valentine’s Day into an ecommerce dream. To make your life easier, get an all-in-one ecommerce platform to ensure you’re capable of processing any type of transaction.

Payment Methods 64

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 64

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

And learn about their personality, their likes and dislikes, and their career. Instead, place the reason you want to renegotiate as the enemy and yourself as the person who wants to figure things out. Instead, try to reach a solution person to person. To build rapport with them , you need to get to know them first.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Telecommunications Payment Services Payments 118

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. All companies, big and small, can use Stripe’s APIs and software to receive and process payments. A comprehensive and easy-to-integrate payment suite, perfect for enabling self-service. 6 ChargeBee.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank.

Payment Solutions 150

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 150

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

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. That has turned into a big win for Google.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. Most importantly, perhaps, was the introduction of UPI in 2016—an instant, free national mobile payment system based on Aadhaar.

Payment Services 115

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 115

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Does your business book appointments online? To use the plugin and all the features it offers, you can sign up for one of their subscription tiers that auto-renews annually: Personal — $39 per year for one website Business — $69 per year for up to five websites Developer — $169 per year for unlimited websites.

Payment Methods 127

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 127

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

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. Prior to forming Rocketgenius, Gravity Forms’ parent company, co-founders Carl Hancock , Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut worked together developing websites for clients.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Payments Payment Solutions 40

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

Merchant Services 82

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. 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.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When I invested in FreeAgent in early 2009, I found the value of an online accounting solution SO compelling that I naively believed every small business in the UK would just have to adopt online accounting. known as the layer-cake strategy). Who will leapfrog the pre-AI Cloud?

AI 120

AI SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 120

How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It had been studied by researchers that four out of five companies are storing records of their customers to use them productively for the long term in their enterprise CRM data tool. It was the first CRM tool that was based on the cloud and can be used with a monthly subscription model of payments. Social CRM Market Leader: Nimble.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods Software 52

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. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Making their product accessible on their website instead of hiring an army of salespeople was a disruptive idea in the early 2000s. In the past two decades, Atlassian mastered the way their software is discovered, tried and purchased, all assisted by an automated online experience. One PLG Adopter Created Hundreds More.

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

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. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 160

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

Sales Hiring 79

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 79

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. In a lot of larger companies, they’re completely okay with giving you two or three year payments all up front. What has changed?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 142

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). The USP of the company is personalized video content – leveraging video content for interactions helps businesses increase their sales.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

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? I can help you accelerate your payment.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

Back in 2009, MailChimp introduced their Free Forever plan that allowed people to use MailChimp for free until their email list reached 100 subscribers. You might want to consider this model if you have a product where one account can have several users who each need personal access to the software. image source). Pay-as-you-go.

Subscription 69

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 69

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Metering / Billing / Payment Process. How do I target my customers when they’re not online? ” Everyone should know this; from product to sales, and from marketing to HR… if you aren’t clear on how each person contributes to the Desired Outcome of the customer, how can you say Customer Success is your Purpose?

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. There was one other person inside the company already digging into this lever, so we connected and really hit it off. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Automate : Replace a person or manual process. RightMessage started as custom code to personalize the site experience, then was shared to other sites to increase conversions and user experience, and then was productized into what we now know as a growing business. Automation Examples. Productization Examples.

Innovation 105

Innovation Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 105