FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

At the time of writing, Hi-Rez’s 2014 release SMITE sits at #15 on Steam’s “Most played Massively Multiplayer games” list , with SMITE’s Steam page boasting 40+ million players.) The first phase is focusing on your own community,” Todd explains, citing Discord as a great platform on which to do so.

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Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Solutions Payments 179

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Niche marketplaces allow businesses to leverage the power and branding of larger platforms to reach their target audiences. 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. One excellent example is Amazon.

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service B2C Payment Services Payments 139

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors. Or do you integrate with any of the products that are currently booming? Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures. The last few weeks have been Here’s what it’s been like.

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Payments Pricing Payment Methods SaaS Payments 54

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

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. It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. Best For: Revenue Acceleration.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

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. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s called automated billing, and it’s changing the way we do business. Not only are subscriptions and automated billing services more convenient for our customers, but it also gives our businesses stability through recurring revenue. Automatically chasing payments: It happens: sometimes customers don’t pay their invoices.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods 78

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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 116

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. Benefits of cash flow planning for SaaS businesses SaaS-specific cash flow problems 1. Balancing immediate expenses with payment delays 2.

Payment Solutions 97

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 97

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2019

While I’m confident social platforms will play a crucial role in driving sales in the future, the current model needs some work. . To increase sales, reduce customer abandonment at checkout, and build your own unique commerce operation, an intuitive ecommerce platform is necessary. .

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 60

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 146

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

Chart Mogul

JULY 31, 2018

By joining the program, our mutual customers will now benefit from the combination of ChartMogul’s subscription revenue and customer analytics and Stripe’s seamless payments platform. We aim to help Stripe’s subscription users — and eventually all Stripe users — make sense of their billing data and grow their business faster.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Customer Lifetime Value 40

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Joel shares that at the time, the Average Revenue per Account (ARPA) was only $18-19. How was that possible?

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 25, 2022

The online system is more like an App or Platform that allows Restaurants, big food joints, bars, and even coffee shops to accept food orders online. Other features include multiple payment methods, real-time order tracking, and even calling the Delivery Driver. A Brief View of Online Food Ordering System.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Point of Sale Payment Services 52

Unbounce

JULY 22, 2020

Your ads reach people like this because of tracking, pixels, lookalike audiences , and all the other technical magic that powers Facebook’s advertising platform. Years ago, Facebook offered landing pages within their own platform. Further down, Taboola even includes concrete results that brands have gotten with the platform.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Advertising Sales Hiring 145

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. Plus, the information isn’t embedded inside a photo – search engine spiders can access it. So far, so good.

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Revenue Churn: How to Calculate, Track & Improve. Dunning Management: How to Recover Failed Payments. How to Use Customer Feedback to Fuel Your Business Growth. Baremetrics has been around since 2014, and we’ve documented the process. Idea to $5,000/mo in Recurring Revenue in 5 Months.

Sales Hiring 64

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 64

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. Joel shares that at the time, the Average Revenue per Account (ARPA) was only $18-19. How was that possible?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt.

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Retention Payment Methods Onboarding Payment Solutions 223

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

At Stripe , we build infrastructure that allows internet businesses big and small to accept payments from anywhere. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too. Despite what the business books might tell you, there’s no playbook for new market entry.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payment Services Payments 40

ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Lifetime value determines how long a customer will stay with your company and how much revenue may be generated during that time. AOV = Total revenue/number of orders. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR).

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Payment Methods Metrics SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 56

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 19, 2018

See how GymForLess is leveraging their revenue data to drive predictable growth. Back when the company first launched in 2014, they only offered daily passes to gyms throughout Spain. And for us, it was about generating more dependable revenue. Being able to look at specific cross-sections of revenue is crucial to GymForLess.

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services Payment Services Marketplace as a Service Churn 40

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Back in 2014, Brian Balfour described Growth as the “blending of marketing, product and engineering into one tight knit team.” He explained that growth teams “focus on the funnel in a holistic way […] because their mission is about the growth rate of a metric that tells a more complete picture of the business.”.

Sales Hiring 56

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Growth Hacking 56

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. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 241

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. The ASC 606 outlines a five-step model for revenue recognition.

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Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. Encouraged by the success and importance of SaaS, Australia has actively adopted the cloud ecosystem and founded brilliant SaaS-driven companies and platforms. Culture Amp.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 10

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We were always extremely transparent about our cash in hand, our months of runway, our traffic, our revenue. ” Two months later, we were profitable and we ended the year with eight million in revenue and one million in profit. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

series A round in December 2014 (60% was from Collaborative Fund) Bought out main series A investors (representing $2.3M in 2014 - 60% of which came from Collaborative Fund. Buffer was so hot at the time - revenues were growing 150% per year - that the terms they got for their Series A were insanely good. They were doing $4.6M

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business. New platform products such as a (rumored) smart speaker. “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.”

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75