Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling websites, apps, domains, and online businesses. Use Flippa’s free Online Valuation Tool to get a sense of how much your business is worth. Key Features.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

GetUplift

JANUARY 19, 2023

million selling partners worldwide, Amazon is the number one source for online shopping. I can’t even remember the last time I purchased toothpaste, dishwashing liquid or detergent at a store. A personalized shopping experience One of Amazon’s greatest successes is owed to personalization. Amazon is almost instinctive.

Payment Methods 85

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence AI Search 85

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If your eCommerce business needs an online payment processor, perhaps you're considering Stripe vs. Braintree. Online payment platforms make it possible to send and receive payments. With the help of Stripe's API, businesses can build their eCommerce environments with ease. What is Braintree?

Merchant Services 59

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 59

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

JUNE 19, 2019

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

Payment Methods 69

Payment Methods Trends Payments Payment Services 69

Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

Stripe is an online payment processing platform for Internet businesses, something like PayPal. While Stripe is a payment processing platform, both Profitwell and Baremetrics are strictly business metrics monitoring tools that integrate with Stripe to bring you more in-depth knowledge about your transactions. What is Stripe?

SaaS Payments 69

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Features 69

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% Our 2024 retreat will be our first full company retreat since 2019, and we plan on budgeting $5,500 per person (roughly $440,000 total).

Merchant Services 74

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 74

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Founded: 2013 Known customers: Lyft, Clearbit, Amplitude, AdRoll, Segment Price starts at: $249/month. #3 Founded: 2013 Known customers: Marketo, RedHat, Cisco, Okta, Infor, Citrix, BMC Price starts at: Not Provided Publically. #5 Best For: Online Payment Processing. 3 Frontegg. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? appeared first on FastSpring.

SaaS Payments 118

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 118

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In simple terms, it’s a list of a website’s URLs. It maps out how the website is structured and what pages the website includes. (“XML” XML” stands for “Extensible Markup Language,” a way of displaying information on websites.). But an XML sitemap makes it easy for the crawler to see what’s on your website and index it.

Payment Methods 141

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Services 141

All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It has been just two years and almost 150 Americans have chosen to switch from credit and cash to online digital wallets. Formerly known as e-wallets, digital wallets use mobile apps that store credit or debit card details from one place. This allows users to make cashless, in-store purchases using their devices. Key Features.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Services 52

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A: I joined the company in 2013. FastSpring sits at the intersection of three core areas: software and subscription billing, payments, and ecommerce. I like to think of FastSpring’s all-in-one ecommerce platform as the turnkey solution for businesses who are selling SaaS, software, or digital products. A: Absolutely.

Payment Methods 64

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Hiring Payment Services 64

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. The meetups led to our first-ever, 300-attendee Sales Hacker Conference in San Francisco in September of 2013. When we started in 2013, you needed a lot of customers to do your own customer conference. So RIP, Sales Hacker.

Scale 61

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 61

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

Stax

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Forbes , 32% of consumers use it as their primary payment method. But as great as they are for consumers, merchants know that accepting credit card payments comes with added costs in the form of processing fees. To avoid this, businesses can add a surcharge fee for credit card payments.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 88

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 151

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 151

SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of.

Merchant Services 241

Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 241

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

Here’s Lynch’s website (now seemingly somewhat out of date) to hear his side of this story. I won’t do detailed predictions on each of these questions, and I have as much Zoom fatigue as the next person, but I think it’s important to realize the question is not “when we are we going back to the pre-COVID way of doing things?”

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

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. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 147

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2013. 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

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

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 22, 2018

Founded by Mike Winn, Jono Millin and Nicholas Pilkington in 2013, DroneDeploy was born out of an effort to help catch illegal poachers in South Africa. In 2013 consumer drone technology was just starting to take off. We integrate our Stripe payment gateway with Chargify, and that actually pushes to ChartMogul.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Services 40

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

BugHerd provides top-notch services for bug tracking and website feedback. The company, set up in 2013, has garnered global recognition. Employers can personalize a white-labeled training portal by integrating courses from the marketplace or build an alternative course using business content. Headquarters: Sydney, Australia.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 10

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. I think you’re only the second person since COVID started who’s come into the Intercom podcast studio here in the Dublin office. Alex Delivet: Thank you.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2013. 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

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2013. 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: 2013. Founded: 2013. Size of fund: $278.6M. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This complete guide will give you the step-by-step process for growing your conversions and creating landing pages, funnels, websites and emails that make prospects choose you over your competitors. The article was only written to drive website traffic. Here’s how emotional marketing impacts different types of websites. .

Payment Methods 122

Payment Methods Marketing Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team 122

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Michael Seibel is CEO and a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv and Socialcam.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Payment ii. Upgrades and support What are other software monetization methods? Office 2013 was released on January 29th, 2013. Since 2013, Microsoft has released two new versions, Office 2016 in 2015 and Office 2019 in 2018. The subscription model involves recurring payments, typically monthly or yearly.

Payment Features 95

Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. You already raised money.

Scale 185

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. Branded content: lets you purchase license quality content for your website, ads, socials, and billboards. Payment Tracker: allows the influencers/content creators to set their price, and get paid within 48 hours.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When problems arise, customers don’t want to wade through a confusing knowledge base or converse with a bot on your website. We installed Olark (an awesome chat widget) in both locations, so that visitors can ask questions when we’re online, or leave us messages in our support inbox when we aren’t. Image via Wistia.

Churn 56

Churn Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments 56

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content marketing is one of the most effective methods of generating brand awareness and brand preference specifically among your ideal target audience. Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place.

Content Marketing 113

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Investment Marketing 113

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

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. My account runs my website. So if you think about just a manufacturer and you’re making a toy, you might sell it direct to consumer on your own website.

SaaS Payments 249

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 249

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. You’re dot com.

Sales Recruiting 166

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Subscription services use personalization to provide recommendations for upsells or new features based on customer data. Their monthly subscription payments are made only when they experience the value a product or service provides. Shopify : This leading ecommerce platform services approximately 800K customers in 175 countries.

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Payments Subscription Trends 49

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159