SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. .

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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

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

MARCH 14, 2024

EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. Yet, while time has provided customers and businesses with more education on the security benefits of EMV card chips, many businesses and consumers are still confused about key components.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2021

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS.

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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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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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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.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Today we’re excited to announce ChartMogul Revenue Recognition! Now finance teams can save countless hours preparing income statements and get a real-time view of GAAP revenues. We also added cash flow charts back in 2015, but these only show how much money has been received from customers in any given period.

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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. Global payments became an area of focus for the team. They recognized that they needed the ability to accept global payments in order to capture more international sales where they did not already have a business presence.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 27, 2020

Today the subscription management platform is helping industry powerhouses across the Fortune 500, including Ford, Caterpillar, and Thermo Fisher, shift their perspective from transactions to relationships. It really leads to better revenue and lower churn when customers make changes. Over the last 7.5 With a Ph.D.

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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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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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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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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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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2019

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. The company launched in 2015 and has raised $170M to date.

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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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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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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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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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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

The largest private software acquisition is Transfirst, a payment software business founded in 1995. In 2015, our internal analysis showed private SaaS companies commanded twice the valuation-to-multiple revenue of the public markets. First, 15 of the 22 US software acquisitions worth more than $0.5B

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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.’ “Near me” searches also rose by 500% in recent years. So far, so good.

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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. Noted integrates audio recording with note-taking.

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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.”.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. It becomes the system of record, even more so today than the CRM or the back-end ERP, because it has the most real-time, accurate, and up-to-date information on the revenue lifecycle.

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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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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.”.

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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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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. The post SaaS: Is B2B Revenue Better than B2C?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

But since there are so many to choose from—we’re talking Nuuly, Haverdash, Stitch Fix, the list goes on—RTR is looking to a new membership option to convince shoppers to get on board with its platform over others. But Amazon Prime’s numbers and influence continues to grow , ending 2019 with 112 million U.S.

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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. It has exponentially expanded the list of things people can do with the platform, and I would have missed that huge opportunity if I didn’t listen to my users.”.

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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

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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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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