SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide.

Scale 119

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring 172

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 172

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. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. You can do that.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 154

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2012. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. I just think that definition of responsibility will change where they may simply be a sales and marketing person who’s focused on new logos, but immediately is handed to success from that point forward. Nick Mehta: So let’s dive into the future.

Payment Methods 216

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 216

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Aileen Lee: And hi, everyone.

Investment 164

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 164

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2012. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. On average, only 67% of reps are making quota, down from 74% in 2012. As your sales playbook, markets, and products evolve, you should expect to invest regularly in the development of your sales reps.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 93

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 169

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 169

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. So we had a deep experience in the e-commerce space and it just, in 2012, it felt right.

SaaS Payments 274

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 274

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How after that payment was processed or that service order was signed, you set your sights on cloning that customer. On average, only 67% of reps are making quota, down from 74% in 2012. As your sales playbook, markets, and products evolve, you should expect to invest regularly in the development of your sales reps.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Startup 52

Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. known as the layer-cake strategy). Who will leapfrog the pre-AI Cloud?

AI 120

AI SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 120

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

This is especially true for SaaS businesses, where it’s common for customers to either come in through or go through a free trial after an initial engagement method (think ads, news articles, or referrals). After the visitor “converts” from website visitor to trial user, they stop marketing or selling. Opt-in Free Trial.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 98

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. The best feature of this app has to be its ‘Return on Investment Analytics. What are the Best Influencer Marketing Platforms in 2021?

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

BigCommerce, an e-commerce store provider, writes , To ensure a high profit, it’s important to influence your customers to keep coming back to purchase. Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Because it gives you tremendous power.

Customer Lifetime Value 76

Customer Lifetime Value Payment Methods Payments Payment Features 76

Neil Patel

MARCH 5, 2021

A WordPress popup plugin can help to increase your return on the investment you’ve made in your website, your branding, and your products or services. You can choose from many popup triggers, including: Website load Scrolling Website exiting Inactivity Adblocker use Clicking on certain links. Scalability.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Scale 140

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2012, looking to build something of his own, Patrick founded ProfitWell , a suite of products to help SaaS companies grow by optimizing pricing, reducing churn, and getting accurate revenue reporting. Choosing between bootstrapping and raising money is always a personal choice. So, we were going to raise capital.

Acquisition 118

Acquisition Payments Payment Methods Scale 118

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. It was just the most broken system ever.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. It could come back.

Sales Hiring 223

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 223

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

New CTO 150

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 150

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. They also don’t hang out online, there’s no congregation where a bunch of small businesses are that you can find them.

Payment Methods 102

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 102