Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We shared a post about where your money went when buying a $10 Buffer plan back in 2014 — but it was well time for an update. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897. Stripe payments make up 98.5

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 109

Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 109

SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. The second decision was the next year, 2014.

Engineering 184

Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.

Sales Hiring 226

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Sales Recruiting 226

Outseta

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The company made a business intelligence tool that made it possible to visualize large data sets on a mobile device like an iPhone or iPad. When apps first became available they were a hot new thing that brought an entirely new set of possibilities to mobile phone users.

Product Marketing 50

Product Marketing Marketing Sales Hiring Education 50

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. Capillary Technologies. CloudConnect.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Big tech takes over.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259