Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely.   Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from. Let’s get into it.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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wepay

AUGUST 5, 2020

Vagaro providing resources to reopening, physical changes, and safety measures to its customers for contactless payments, virtual check-in capabilities, revamped floor plans, and other necessary business changes. We also discussed the findings from our State of Small Business Payments 2020 survey.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. Payment gateway.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Forbes , “mobile payments are increasingly being used by U.S. Not only are there a number of ways your customers could be using their mobile devices to give payments, but you as a business owner could be leveraging mobile devices to accept them as well. What is mobile credit card processing?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We can’t believe it’s already November and there are only four months until SaaStr Annual 2020 , we’re already looking at an awesome speaker line-up this year. We’ll be back at the San Jose Convention Center, March 10-12th, 2020. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In June 2020, they launched GPT3 — its first state-of-the-art large language model. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. From there, the pace picked up rapidly.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2019

Well, not QUITE yet but if you’re already planning your trip to SaaStr Annual 2020, here is our initial speaker lineup. Prior to this, she was a Director at Apple where she led Worldwide Payments and Financing Programs for Online Stores. An all-access pass to SaaStr Annual 2020: March 10-12th @ the San Jose Convention Center.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. Mediocre margins in payments. And a few bonus notes: #6.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I never posted my talk from last year, so I’m adapting it into a blog post here, and will do the same for this year’s talk in the following weeks and as well as some follow up questions from the Summit I’ve had a chance to ruminate on. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. Payment gateway.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

Todd recommends that game devs consider those larger platforms as part of a video game marketing strategy that includes multiple channels for selling games , but that they not rely solely on them. “The The first phase is focusing on your own community,” Todd explains, citing Discord as a great platform on which to do so.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. Weave has added payment processing to its services, and as part of that, use Stripe per a 3 year term agreement. #5. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A need to consolidate financial data in one place Baremetrics simplifies data analytics and customer segmentation 26+ Stripe Analytics in One Platform Powerful customer information supports their sales team The Future of UXPin Learn more about UXPin. At that time, they used both PayLane and PayPal to process payments.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To recap a fantastic year at FastSpring, we want to take a look back at our top 10 blog posts from 2019. As a partner in growth for thousands of software companies around the world, one of our goals is to provide blog content that is helpful, interesting, and informative. How Localization for SaaS Pricing Can Boost Your Revenue.

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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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Baremetrics

APRIL 25, 2021

RESULTS Within just one month of using Baremetrics, Cancel Timeshare has saved hours of manual entry, recovered over $680 in failed payments, and supported their customer service goals. They guide timeshare owners through the timeshare exit process with transparent service and fair pricing. Table of Contents.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 22, 2023

Jahleane Dolne started creating content a year after college graduation in 2020, but it was the $20 she spent on a LinkedIn optimization course that really changed her life. Diversify your platforms in anticipation of change The Internet is always changing, and staying ahead of the curve is a must for any creator.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, it’s worth noting that Intuit has been steadily discontinuing versions of Desktop as far back as 2018 (QuickBooks Desktop 2020 was discontinued on May 31st, 2023). Moreover, the current set-up requires Intuit to maintain development teams and operational support for two separate software platforms (desktop and online).

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OPEXEngine

APRIL 16, 2020

OPEXEngine fielded a second quick poll to the SaaS Finance community between April 2-April 14, 2020 – over 60 individual companies participated, ranging from companies with under 100 employees to companies with more than 5000 employees. For all other size ranges, 30 – 35% of companies are planning to change FY 2020 Sales Quotas.

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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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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

New business pipeline has fallen off a cliff and will likely remain depressed through 2020. Churn rates are starting to tick up, and not only for businesses with a customer concentration in hospitality or travel. And major layoffs have been announced, even among SaaS companies recently touted as possible 2020 IPO candidates.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) September 4, 2020. bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. But getting paid in a simple ACH or credit card payment each month can be magical. You are robbing a bit of a long-term revenue stream if your over-discount to get an annual deal done now.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Scale Payments 284

ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. The products that subscription businesses sell are usually consumables or licensed products that can only be used for a finite amount of time.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2019

With 2020 fast approaching, now’s the perfect time to make sure you’re using the right tools for the job. We’re going to look at the five best customer success tools for 2020. There are over 50 integrations, including Slack, Hubspot, and Salesforce. Akita — For a variety of integrations.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We also have 10 must-have features for subscription billing platforms in 2020. 2020: the year of subscription growth and iteration. Carl Gold over at Multi Channel Merchant knows we’re living and breathing the recurring revenue revolution—and that the subscription space is only going to expand. Your top subscription news.

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas. Our product and tech teams will work on the most requested improvements to be included in our 2020 roadmap.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7. Now forget it.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sacks suggests thinking of every major platform shift as a pond. Before AI came on the scene, it was roughly a dozen years before a really big platform shift — Cloud and mobile were big, but it was time for something new to come along to reset and restock the pond with new opportunities. One of the questions all VCs ask is, “Why now?”

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. We’re taking a look at X popular subscription-based companies and types in 2020. We’re taking a look at X popular subscription-based companies and types in 2020. So why the subscription business model?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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Incredo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And here are the best answers we have received. #1 Denis Lunev Founder at DepositFix , Payment Integration for HubSpot “ The most expensive time of year to advertise on Google and Facebook is Black Friday and Christmas. Our product and tech teams will work on the most requested improvements to be included in our 2020 roadmap.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

TikTok is a video sharing platform that allows users to create and share dynamic short-form (maximum of 60 seconds) videos. In 2020, TikTok was ranked one of the world’s top mobile apps , outperforming YouTtube, Tinder, and Netflix. If you’re new to this integration, try everything. Why Should You Sell Products on TikTok?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 8, 2020

But ASC 606, which allows companies to recognize revenue sooner, has limited our ability to use rules of thumb. We love to talk about how revenue growth is correlated with valuation, and that revenue is valuable because it is recurring and at scale will generate large predictable cash flows. Business planning .

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

360: Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how companies use tech, people, and operations to fundamentally change their business performance. Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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