Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

We’ve tried hard to be extremely financially disciplined and fight the urge to invest in growth prematurely. 2017 2018 Total. building Outseta - roughly $8,000 in 2017 and $24,000 in 2018. The majority of our expenses in 2017 were related to software and development infrastructure required to build the product.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 40

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. New sales tech was finally getting investment. I set up a call with them.

Scale 61

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 61

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

By turning its $193 million loss in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in 2017 into a positive $233 million in what it called community-adjusted EBITDA, it erased its leverage problem without having to make any changes to its planned bond offering. You want to be clear what it is,” Holmes said.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many of these tips are oldies but goodies to cybersecurity experts, but I’ve tried to include a few unique tips with my personal explanation for each. Plus, the website [link] has a great tool for passphrase generation. Tip #3: June of 2017 brought a big change to password management. Tip #4: Unique passwords are important.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

Sales Hiring 160

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 160

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. Stripe Soars Payment technology company Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from investors as they move closer to a possible initial public offering in the next few years. In resources.

Payment Methods 45

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Entertainment 45

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. hyperise - Hyper Personalize your sales funnel and grow your sales conversions. vidREACH.io - Personal, Video-powered Email Outreach.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

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. But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The country leads the world in real-time digital payments.

Payment Services 115

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 115

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". It’s been profitable since 2017, bringing in $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The Prophet for Habit-Forming Technology. Sribd Co-Founder and CEO Trip Adler.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Subscription 40

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This comes in hot on the heels of their personalization and experience manager , as the team amps up Instapage allure on the daily. Like Stripe for payments or Twilio for communication, SendBird helps developers add messaging to their apps with just a few lines of code. In headlines.

Payments 45

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Subscription 45

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ecommerce is big business. billion online in 2017, the highest growth rate since 2011. There are thousands of companies selling online to millions of customers, but what’s the best way to sell? First and foremost, scaling a software company involves investing considerable time, capital, and energy. spent $453.46

Payment Methods 61

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 61

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. It’s also about payment methods.

SaaS Payments 237

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 237

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing. Founded: 2017.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

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. Capsule CRM - The smart simple online CRM. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management. Streak – CRM for Gmail.

Scale 104

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

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. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management. SimplyCRM – The CRM you will actually use.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 99

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Investment funds like Indie.VC in debt from Accel-KKR in November 2017 Wistia, a Cambridge, MA based video hosting company, made waves throughout the SaaS world this July when they formally announced that they had taken on $17.3M in debt to buy out their investors.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

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. Capsule CRM – The smart simple online CRM. SugarCRM – CRM Software & Online Customer Relationship Management.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 99

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To continue its growth, instead of investing in new product value, Eventbrite kept grafting new growth loops onto this core loop to acquire more event creators and drive more ticket sales per event, creating a much more complicated growth model that looks like the below. This is what I realized when I joined Eventbrite.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

Merchant Services 82

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

I started Basis Set Ventures in 2017. We invest in companies that transform the way people work. We mostly do seed-stage investments and a little bit if Series A. We’re investing both down and up the stack, anything from infrastructure to the data layer, to algorithm, to application. debt ventures.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 144

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For Dan Gingiss , at least, investing in your defense – the customer experience – is the smartest move you can make. Come drive our car, come to our store.’ You’re probably in charge of the different payment methods that your company accepts. Dan Gingiss is many a thing. They say, ‘Look at us.

Payment Methods 206

Payment Methods Scale Social Media Airlines 206

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing. Founded: 2017.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

ProfitWell

JULY 18, 2019

Pricing discrepancies and extra costs were the primary cause of abandoned carts for 60% of respondents in a 2017 survey from Baymard. A pricing discrepancy (sometimes referred to as a rate discrepancy) happens when a customer goes to the checkout page on your website and finds a different price than they expected for their order.

Payment Methods 43

Payment Methods Pricing SaaS Payments Software Review 43

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? How to use Culture as the lever to maximize the ROI that you get out of the biggest investment your business will ever make. In 2017, there were 513 exits, 499 were M&A, with many being PE. How many meetings is normal to have in this process?

Sales Hiring 142

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

We started investing a tremendous amount on the enterprise side. There are a couple of things that we need to consider in thinking about like, okay, I’m now in a position where I know I need to invest, essentially I’m hiring customer marketing. We invested a lot in a local event marketing team. deal size growth.

Scale 143

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 143

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. The same goes for the website, customer support, and user onboarding. Focus: Product and Customer Journey. Focus: Customer Onboarding and Face-to-Face Conversion.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Baremetrics

JULY 29, 2021

Poor communication Data from Forrester shows that 45% of US customers abandon an online purchase over poor information. Poor information can be anything like a website filled with so much information that visitors are left wondering about the core message. Personalized email is a safe tunnel to reach your customers’ hearts.

Payment Methods 104

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 104

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.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. It was just the most broken system ever.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. When the future is predictable, people like to invest.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 195

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As for Robert, prior to MessageBird, he was co-founder and CEO of Zaypay.com which focused on driving mobile payments into 50+ countries, enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their phones (sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG). billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. The first method is error-prone to say the least, and the second is just too time-consuming (and still error-prone).

Deferred Revenue 111

Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111