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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $1.5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

But Gross Margins Only 28% on Payments and Related Solutions Low gross margins on payments and financial services of only 28% makes Toast’s model much tougher than Shopify’s (39%) or Bill’s (80%+). It’s probably not really a SaaS company, but close enough to include it in our series and our ecosystem. #3.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Weave at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account. Weave has added payment processing to its services, and as part of that, use Stripe per a 3 year term agreement. #5.

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SaaS Financial Plan 2.0

The Angel VC

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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Financial planning for SaaS startups

The Angel VC

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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How to build a successful embedded payments strategy | Ep 33

Payrix

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. Despite the exponential growth they’ve gone through, Stripe have been refreshingly conservative about how quickly they grown the company from a headcount perspective. We just were never going to get that headcount.

Scale 162
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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

I worked with Jack Welch of GE for a couple of months to get his online MBA program off the ground, and when I started my first company way back in the day, Jack came to Boston to do one of his conferences. Now at around the 51st person that we’re bringing in, it just doesn’t seem that they have the same passion that we do for the business.

Scale 172