Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. The sale is direct between the seller and buyer. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

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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. Another important detail to note is how Average Sales Price (ASP) and Expenses have changed over time. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015.

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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. But market expansion became a major strength and well oiled machine through sales and SEO expertise as well as strategic M&A. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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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. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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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. And at the risk of giving you a full Stripe sales pitch, don’t worry, that’s in my other talk.

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Unbounce

JULY 22, 2020

They’ve got 15 minutes to kill, so they pick up their phone and (because they’re 46 and don’t know about TikTok yet) scroll through Facebook. Instead, it takes them to the homepage of your store. Now the kids are in the car, the phone is back in the console, and the sale is lost.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Today, with 11 percent of all shopping is done online , it’s vital you know the digital platforms that will give your B2C niche service brand the reach it needs to flourish. A B2C niche marketplace is an online platform that matches vendors who provide specialized service providers with their ideal customers.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

Calculating cash flow with the direct method 2. Calculating cash flow with the indirect method 3. Balancing immediate expenses with payment delays 2. Multiple debtors and late payments 3. Amazon’s Statements of cash flow for 2014–2016. How to calculate cash flow 1. Customer churn 4.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In this piece, we’re going to look at what automated billing is, why it’s essential for online businesses, and four benefits it brings for companies that implement it. What is automated billing, and why is it essential for online businesses? Automatically chasing payments: It happens: sometimes customers don’t pay their invoices.

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ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

companies manufacture and ship their products directly to buyers without relying on traditional stores. Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Rent the Runway: Online service providing rental designer clothing and accessories, with the option to subscribe.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Also, there is less pressure on Sales. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. All companies, big and small, can use Stripe’s APIs and software to receive and process payments. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee. Best For: Revenue Acceleration.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

But at the same time website traffic keeps climbing, indicating that buyers are still doing research and engaging with businesses. You might start by testing 25% or 50% off for the next six months to boost your conversion from website visit to qualified opportunity. Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures.

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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.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. They need fewer sales as a percentage of overall employees. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. I joined Stripe in 2014 (initially in London) to build out our first international markets in the UK and Ireland, and then in New York where I set up our East Coast office and commercial operations.

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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. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. I have been at Stripe for about four years. Stripe’s ecosystem is quite large and thriving.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Back when the company first launched in 2014, they only offered daily passes to gyms throughout Spain. These points can be applied to the next month’s renewal, reducing their payment by up to €10. See how ChartMogul can help your business — sign up for a free 14-day trial or email sales@chartmogul.com to learn more. The result?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 20, 2022

These insights can further be used to enhance the product, sales & marketing, and partnership departments. Better personalization. Customers tend to spend more on a brand/ product that provides personalized services. And with the customer insights from loyalty programs, businesses can build a personalized approach.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Customer Support. Salesforce.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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: Well, the idea came a long time ago from a personal need. One of them is that, most of the time, you’re not personally in contact with your customers. Alex Delivet: Thank you.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Who’s going to lead sales? Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. By 2014 it was worth a billion. Who’s going to lead product? The entire time.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) set out in 2014 to provide a framework to attain consistency in financial reporting, improve comparative analysis and reporting, and simplify the drafting of financial statements. Payment terms are identified. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? 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. What can you do to make the land as frictionless as possible?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

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. Capstone Partners typically exits investments through a trade sale. Founded: 2014. Founded: 1981.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

No, they’ll probably say something like, “Oh wow, they take on all the liability involved with collecting sales taxes and comply with every local jurisdiction around the world. After the visitor “converts” from website visitor to trial user, they stop marketing or selling. I want to sign up and try that service! ”. Opt-in Free Trial.

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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.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

We need this money to get sales and marketing going. So I just see this so many times you’ll see a deck, we need this money to get sales and marketing going. 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. Here’s my burn rate.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Customer reference program went from something that was nice to have and important to absolutely critical to our new business sales cycle.

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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. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. And also my personal life, my wife and we, well luckily I found out we were pregnant but we were having twins.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. What are ecommerce subscription companies? 4 popular types of ecommerce subscriptions. Let’s dive in.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

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?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

The State of SaaS Sales in a COVID-19 World. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Intercom’s Des Traynor offers a framework for viewing pricing and customer targeting to segment sales processes more efficiently. Pricing in a Time of Uncertainty.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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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 that’s where you have to have questions about how do you enable other people both in sales leadership and others to represent the company at the executive level?

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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. Who is this person? She’s got an English degree and an MBA. That’s an annoying, kind of anxiety-producing thing.

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