SaaStr

MAY 29, 2019

Ellevest is on a mission to close the gender investing gap by leveraging a robo-advisor designed especially for women. Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Banking 230

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. The solution? Instead, larger tech companies like Twitter and Pinterest are making investments in small startups. Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

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. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. They were self taught developers.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2019

Experience-driven commerce, which is the key to success for brands looking to create seamless experiences for their customers from discovery to purchase, can only be made possible through a full-service ecommerce solution that helps ensure your online store will keep up with your social-media selling. .

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 60

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

I am Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, and we will be talking about the secrets to building a $1 billion vertical SaaS company, and we’re very fortunate to have two executives from leading enterprise software companies who have done this. I was amazed by the app exchange. Actually, two.

Payment Solutions 150

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 150

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

The Information reported last week that in 2014, only 11% of tech IPOs in 2014 were profitable when they became publicly traded companies, an all time low stretching back to 1980, when the figure was 88%. Some like LinkedIn do this in spectacular fashion, charting more than $569M in 2014 cash from operations.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Startup Payments Payment Solutions 100

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 117

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. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Solution: Invest in a revamped data infrastructure.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments. Baremetrics has been around since 2014, and we’ve documented the process. What I’ve Learned Building a SaaS App for Stripe Users. Stripe Fund Invests $500,000 in Baremetrics. One Year Later: $20k/mo, 250 customers, 5 people and a $500k investment.

Sales Hiring 64

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 64

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

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.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

And while there is a focus on G Suite security, I’m happy to answer questions about how to secure any system using these tips. In fact, they explicitly acknowledge that routine password changes make your systems LESS secure. Tip #8: If you can’t use security keys, use the Google Authenticator app. Signaling System No.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

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. You have two partners and one or two other investing?

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

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 201

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 201

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.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

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. And I think the reason for that is, is that because of the interconnectedness of systems and architecture, there has been a big role of enterprise architecture across the company.

Technical Advisors 161

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 161

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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 263

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 263

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Most software companies rely heavily on free trials for customer acquisition. Users can gain full access to the product or service for a limited time period without sharing any payment information upfront. It provides insights into product functionality and onboarding. It requires strategy and near-perfect execution. Opt-in Free Trial.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 98

Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

In a technology driven world, where it feels like consumers are always looking for the next best service or software to jump ship to, reducing churn can be challenging for a SaaS company like Emphatic. About Emphatic Emphatic is a social media automation software, similar to Hootsuite or Buffer. Want to retain more customers?

Social Media 69

Social Media Payment Solutions Software Review Software 69

SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2022

This is a key reason businesses should invest in building customer loyalty, and loyalty programs help. It is a centralized loyalty system in which the members earn points for their purchase, which can be redeemed for rewards. Back in 2014, when Lenovo purchased IBM’s X86 server, the company didn’t have any industry experience.

B2B 11

B2B Scale Payment Methods Payment Services 11

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. What this number means is across all industries, 94% of businesses today use at least one cloud solution. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend. But it takes a long time to build.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). It was kind of fun seeing something succeed like this, especially after 15+ years building software! He was building various software companies and I did some design work for him. How we got here. A year and a half ago, I started entertaining offers.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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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. We started investing a tremendous amount on the enterprise side. Talkdesk has invested a lot in the last year in local event attendance for both customers and prospects. Years from now they’re going to be your absolute best references.

Scale 143

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 143

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 211

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 211

Unbounce

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Use cart abandonment software. Rule #3: Use cart abandonment software. However, you can use cart abandonment software to engage and nurture these customers —and, hopefully, get them back on track. There are plenty of options for cart abandonment software available. Jump to an Ecommerce Conversion Rule. Avoid long forms.

Payment Methods 111

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 111

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Q: Sean, you’ve worked for some of the major software players in the recurring revenue technology space—Zuora, Apttus, and Salesforce. When helping with sales-focused initiatives, we know how that impacts downstream systems and processes like billing and revenue recognition. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Increased product personalization — This can lead to a stickier product with more invested, engaged users. “Our Ad-Supported Service serves as a funnel, driving more than 60% of our total gross added Premium Subscribers since we began tracking this data in February 2014.” These grew by 27% year over year in 2017.

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. IBSFintech.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. When we went in and set goals, it was sometimes related to wanting to move like, “We want to reduce payments costs.”

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CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 129

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. That idea eventually turned into AuditBoard, which launched in 2014 and this month secured a $40 million funding round led by Battery Ventures. Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. years since I first published this guide, way back in 2014, Customer Success has evolved dramatically.

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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

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? What mistakes does Harry see many founders make when it comes to investing in their early brand?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 213