FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Explore the Power of Changelog Integration in Our Documentation Navigating the Tax Landscape: Key Changes That Demand Your Attention in 2024 Quarterly B2B Onboarding Update: Your Complete Guide to Seamless Transactions! Changelog posts from 2015-2020 are available on the archived post located at the bottom of the changelog posts displayed.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. The rate varies between 1.3 in most US states.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. The rate varies between 1.3 in most US states.

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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. Founded : 2015. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves. RD Station.

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FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2019

While one cannot deny the rise of social commerce and its pertinence to the overarching ecommerce industry, studies have shown that social-commerce strategies do not lead to as many purchases as you may think. . While I’m confident social platforms will play a crucial role in driving sales in the future, the current model needs some work.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 13, 2019

Since 2015, they have built over 20,000 beautiful and functional intranet sites with more than 50 global partners. The ShortPoint team realized they need to revaluate their ecommerce set up in order to effectively capture more global sales and compete with larger competitors while staying lean as a company.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.

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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. Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You also need to make sure you partner with the right ecommerce platform that can help you efficiently (and compliantly) grow global sales without losing revenue. With cross-border shopping expected to rise to $627 Billion by 2020, capitalizing on this new wave of ecommerce growth can help grow your business even further.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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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.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ I’ve written about local business marketing and local SEO before. But, guess what?

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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. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2019

The online design and publishing tool has over 15 million users across 190 countries. Prior to this, she was a Director at Apple where she led Worldwide Payments and Financing Programs for Online Stores. Prior to that, he held an eight-year tenure at Intuit as a VP for the Intuit Developer Platform.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, there were 3,000 apps available for download. As an entrepreneur, Apple Watches can be an excellent investment, as there is a wide variety of Apple Watch apps designed with business in mind. You don’t even need to pull your phone out of your pocket to do so. Location-Based Alerts.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she quit her full-time job to build a freelance writing business. For one, she has built a stable and viable business, achieving six figures in revenue every year for the past five years and even bringing in multiple-six-figures in 2021 when she expanded her business with subcontractors.

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FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

One challenge many online merchants face after they’ve finished developing their product is figuring out how to easily accept payments on their online store. But navigating the complex world of online payments for the first time is challenging work. But should PayPal be the only payment method on your site?

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All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the past couple of years, COVID-19 has steadily made the financial sector take 360 degrees by integrating tech to evolve buying and spending. It has been just two years and almost 150 Americans have chosen to switch from credit and cash to online digital wallets. The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. For publicly traded companies that are growing 50% or faster, median valuation multiples have increased by an incredible 649% between 2015 and August 201.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

The R^2 of the median software multiple and 10Y rate going back to 2015 is 0.35. ” It’s important to highlight the part at the end - it takes time to go from contract to usage / consumption (and thus recognized revenue). Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Overall Stats: Overall Median: 5.6x

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. 10 Questions To Answer. Freemium benchmarks.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 25, 2021

AJ first conceived the idea for Carrd in 2015. Before launching Carrd, AJ had built a strong following for his site template designs and themes for platforms like WordPress. If you set your sights too high, you’ll create all kinds of problems that are too complex for one person to manage.” million sites.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. Most importantly, perhaps, was the introduction of UPI in 2016—an instant, free national mobile payment system based on Aadhaar.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue. On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 29, 2021

When it comes to your team, everyone in your business needs data that is accurate and consistent to optimize what they do to drive revenue. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. And second, the data must have perceived integrity.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Look at Zoom or Slack: businesses designed for enterprise organizations that use B2C-like onboarding flows (such as product-led growth, or PLG) to fuel interest and adoption. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020. And we’re the same people when we go to work.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Chathri says ReCharge has been remote-first since the start and has been bootstrapped since 2015. She also mentions that technology enabled ReCharge, and the entire company has had a remote-first mindset embedded into its culture. To quote Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”. Firing someone via Zoom can be tricky.

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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. We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2012. Massachusetts.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

It'll track any Google-based Sales Professional's efforts across email, calendar, and phone, and share interaction clients have had with emails, websites, or when they've called back. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Drive Revenue. Grow Your Pipeline.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Chathri says ReCharge has been remote-first since the start and has been bootstrapped since 2015. She also mentions that technology enabled ReCharge, and the entire company has had a remote-first mindset embedded into its culture. To quote Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”. Firing someone via Zoom can be tricky.

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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. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. 110% growth at $4B in revenues.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 31, 2019

Avocode Knows Face it: Your website is often the first face of business, and the primary point of reference your users come in contact with. So Avocode sits down with Stefan Judis to hear a developer’s perspective on why web performance is so crucial to business, and how to leverage your site’s power. " Ready for the rundown?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2013.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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