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.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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%. As the chart above shows, the median publicly traded SaaS company, marked in red, never achieves positive net income.

Payment Services 100

Payment Services Startup Payments Payment Solutions 100

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. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

Scale 152

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.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods 78

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. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

Scale 117

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 117

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

Payment Solutions 149

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 149

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. What is Buffer. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

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

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

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

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing your SaaS. These articles are good if you’re in the early stages of starting a SaaS company and can help you get off on the right foot. 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Track & Grow Your Business. Pricing your SaaS. There are a lot of ways to price your SaaS. Learn more here ! Table of Contents.

Sales Hiring 64

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 64

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 162

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 162

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker. What is Buffer. Established in 2010, Buffer hardly needs an introduction.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, the term “Growth” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the SaaS world, especially at product led growth businesses. Recently I surveyed over 350 SaaS companies and found that 43% of B2B software companies already have a dedicated growth team and 27% are looking to fill a growth role.

Sales Hiring 56

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Growth Hacking 56

ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Many of these metrics are intersectional with B2B and SaaS because they reveal important data all businesses need to know. AOV = Total revenue/number of orders. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). Customer LTV.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Metrics SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value 56

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.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 10

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. The Covid Boost for SaaS. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

Merchant Services 245

Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments 245

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

Scale 198

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 198

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. In today’s episode, we welcomed Alex into our offices to chat about his love for SaaS, the challenges of starting a business, and the future of data collection.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

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.

Payments 84

Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. By 2014 it was worth a billion.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. The former amount resides on the balance sheet as Deferred Revenue and has always been reported as required by GAAP.

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Deferred Revenue Metrics SaaS Payments Payment Features 59

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 I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

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

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business. In the SaaS world, businesses generally aim to drive higher ARPA through add-ons and paid upgrades as the product matures. New platform products such as a (rumored) smart speaker. TL;DR: ARPA is down from €6.84 in 2015 to €5.32

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side. But I want to kick off today with a little about you.

Technical Advisors 160

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 160

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. That’s why we’ve put together the platforms, tools, and strategies you need to make subscriptions work for your company. It’s one of the truest forms of monetized relationships.

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. We celebrate businesses like that, and of course, the platform we’re on today with Zoom, that has really become a communications platform that’s defining this COVID era. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). This was important because many times, after months of due diligence, things invariably come up that reduce the purchase price: working capital requirements, unpaid PTO, unrecognized revenue, and a thousand other things. How we got here.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Software Review Payment Solutions Payments 145

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. Emphatic has been around since 2014, but changed leadership in January of 2019. Then, you check your email to find nothing from them?

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Social Media Payment Solutions Software Review Software 69

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. The SaaS company is responsible for maintaining databases and servers and making sure that users can access the applications from almost all devices.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11