SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 25, 2022

Online Food Ordering System has increased Restaurant’s sales making the businesses earn twofold their incomes. Online ordering system is good for those who have understood the marketing strategy to the best while many bearing brunts for want adequate information for what actually help drive traffic and how it’s done.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. I’m an execution person.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’ll also share an example of a cash flow statement to bring the concept to life and provide some tips for SaaS businesses seeking to simplify and streamline their cash flow statement activities. Calculating cash flow with the direct method 2. Calculating cash flow with the indirect method 3. Table of Contents.

Payment Solutions 97

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Software Review 97

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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. 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. This is not all.

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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. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. We have over 1100 customers across the globe.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 149

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure. What is Buffer. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure. What is Buffer. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many of these tips are oldies but goodies to cybersecurity experts, but I’ve tried to include a few unique tips with my personal explanation for each. Plus, the website [link] has a great tool for passphrase generation. I recommend using a simple cipher for a website plus a base passphrase.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

Unbounce

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Would you be frustrated if you discovered that tons of your potential customers are leaving your ecommerce website (and that your conversion rates are in the pits) because of a poor visitor experience? Today, I’ll go over the 12 rules I follow to create a shopping cart experience that’ll grow your ecommerce conversion rates.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 111

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 164

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Investment funds like Indie.VC Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth. in 2014 - 60% of which came from Collaborative Fund. They were doing $4.6M

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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 170

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 170

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

Scale 188

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 188

SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2022

From apparel brands to food delivery platforms, almost all B2C businesses offer loyalty programs; and a majority of them are a huge hit. But, implementing these programs in Business-to-Business (B2B) environments can be a little different. The major difference is because of the businesses’ approach to the customers. .

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B2B Scale Payment Methods Payment Services 11

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. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

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. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

Sales Hiring 156

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 156

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 114

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 114

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). Sure, I could have dug deep and stuck it out another couple of years and figured out some new ways to grow it and maybe had a larger outcome, but did I really want to have spent 10 years of my life building a business analytics software company? No, not really.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Increased product personalization — This can lead to a stickier product with more invested, engaged users. Undoubtedly, Spotify’s array of personalized playlists (especially Discover Weekly) keep people subscribed. Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business.

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. And even back then everyone was worried about getting Amazon which we still are 20 years later and many of us are still getting Amazon, but he said, “My pump business is not going to get Amazon.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Today at Talkdesk, we had a lot of our kind of big momentum starting in 2014-2015. ” That’s kind of how the process runs and that was what it was like when I joined Talkdesk. ” That’s kind of how the process runs and that was what it was like when I joined Talkdesk. deal size growth.

Scale 144

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 144

Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

Emphatic has been around since 2014, but changed leadership in January of 2019. When we took over, Emphatic had just over 100 users on the platform, and about $24,000 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR). Use Baremetrics to automatically email customers before a payment is due, and after a payment is missed.

Social Media 69

Social Media Payment Solutions Software Review Software 69

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side. And we’re building a platform that you want to basically be part of.

Technical Advisors 154

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 154

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. 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. All that money went from public to private because, holy crap, Sequoia invested at Zoom at a billion.

Sales Hiring 198

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 198

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). IBSFintech.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos, and Kim pitched his friend the idea for a product that would revolutionize the way companies manage auditing processes while the two were at Lee’s house watching SportsCenter and chatting about their favorite team: the Lakers. How did you find your way to Mucker?

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Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

years since I first published this guide, way back in 2014, Customer Success has evolved dramatically. What I called the “Definite Guide to Customer Success” way back in 2014 is getting far more definitive for 2020 as I incorporate what I learned over the last year. Sales Process Engagement. Your Recurring Revenue.

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. Our own SaaS originated as an internal solution for a leading payment gateway provider. But a key challenge impacting the Fintech scene is investment—or lack of.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payments Technical Review Payment Services 75

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com. Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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