Neil Patel

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2017, Substack took the market by storm by allowing creatives, journalists, and bloggers to make money from their own email newsletters. Substack provides a way to build an email marketing list, write newsletters, charge subscribers, and manage payments. At the core, Substack is an email marketing platform. What Is Substack?

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Payments Social Media Payment Services 137

FastSpring

MAY 14, 2019

However, our expectations for the quality of the software continue to grow and outpace any current investments. The way customers purchase software has changed and your business must adapt to stay competitive. Some customer segments have stringent cash constraints that prevent them from making big investments.

Payment Features 71

Payment Features Payment Methods Subscription Payment Services 71

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

She started with Zuora as the Vice President of Customer Business Innovation in 2017. Fast forward to 2017 and Amy lands a job at Zuora, the pinnacle of SaaS. The way I got into Zuora and the Institute was I knew how hard it was to run a subscription business.". How are churn and new revenue trending over time?

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments B2B 98

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. It truly changed my life.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Payments 61

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

But before the sugar hits, let’s break down the latest in subscription and recurring revenue with your February 21st Subscription60. Check out these real-world examples from Freshdesk to see how embracing the tech takeover can make your business better. " What's up subscribers? The Rundown In resources. But that’s a good thing.

Payments 45

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Subscription 45

Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

Dimitris, Dave, and myself have yet to pay ourselves any salary and are instead trading our time for sweat equity in the business. 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.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 40

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.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". Have any of you read Nir’s work?

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Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Subscription 40

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. in a single database.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 115

ProfitWell

JANUARY 31, 2019

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. The funding comes from Tiger Global, which had already invested $245 million back in September. Gag orders on the company increased even faster.

Payment Methods 45

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Entertainment 45

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

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: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Salesflare became one of the CRMs we tinker with back in 2017. With the launch of the Pipedrive Marketplace a very wide range of third party apps & integrations. Scroll to the right in the table below and filter for integrations to find what works for you. Drive Revenue. Account Based Selling. Groove - Sell Smarter.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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 We felt confident that the profitability constraints the debt imposed would be healthy for the business.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. And there was nothing in between.

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 142

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. And you can basically predict revenue ahead of time and therefore raise money early on to grow even faster. MRR, obviously.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 238

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. And I just I fell in love with that whole process of providing infrastructure to Facebook.

Merchant Services 82

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 82

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: 2012. Based in: New York. Founded: 2008.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

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. Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B .

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 99

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Tip #3: June of 2017 brought a big change to password management. In early 2017, Google required security keys for all 85,000 of their employees. Dmarcian also offers a reporting platform for ongoing DMARC monitoring. paragraph 9, “recommends against the use of composition rules (e.g., Accounts found: 131,577,763.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B . Our preferred CRM , Salesflare became one of the CRMs we tinker with back in 2017. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Less Annoying CRM – A simple CRM built just for small businesses. Drive Revenue.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B . Our preferred CRM , Salesflare became one of the CRMs we tinker with back in 2017. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Increased product personalization — This can lead to a stickier product with more invested, engaged users. Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). ARPA is the lifeblood of any subscription business. New platform products such as a (rumored) smart speaker. year-over-year in Q4 2017). TL;DR: ARPA is down from €6.84

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B . Our preferred CRM , Salesflare became one of the CRMs we tinker with back in 2017. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Marketcircle – Achieve Big Things with Your Small Business in 2020.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

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. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

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

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. Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B .

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 99

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

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. If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. It is staggering. We call that a second act.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 159

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

billion online in 2017, the highest growth rate since 2011. Maybe you’re unsure if your software company should outsource your ecommerce operations to a full-service platform, such as FastSpring, or just stick with a basic payment service? On paper, point solutions – like a basic payment service, seem like a good idea.

Payment Methods 61

Payment Methods Outsourcing Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 61

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

.” Maybe they send out a message on Slack, maybe they send you a text message and they say, “Hey, do we have anyone who in Talkdesk could probably be say like of a certain size, with certain number of integrations, maybe in this regional vicinity or in this country?” We invested a lot in a local event marketing team.

Scale 143

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 143

Baremetrics

JULY 29, 2021

It begins as the customer has either followed an embedded link or hopped into the company’s email list. For example, premium software users who have not been active on your platform within a considerable time frame. People are streaming to platforms where they know their voices matter. During the 2017 last holiday season.

Payment Methods 104

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 104

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. However, even with its’ new embedding capabilities, it doesn’t come close to Google Sheets in team collaboration. Operating Model.

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Deferred Revenue SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. All that money went from public to private because, holy crap, Sequoia invested at Zoom at a billion.

Sales Hiring 211

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 211

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 195

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 145

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 145

A Smart Bear

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The product was built on a platform , and the platform changed. The company landed one big customer representing 80% of total revenue, but that customer canceled. When a company has revenue but is susceptible to the fatal afflictions above, I call it “brittle.” ” A technological example makes this clear.

Payment Solutions 71

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Scale 71

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209