SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a stunning $25B+ market cap. Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. So they let folks use the platform the way they wanted, from paper checks to fax and more. #2. But it paid off.

SaaS Payments 57

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 57

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This means that our revenue churn was very low.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So when we first started writing about Bill.com at its IPO , it was a sleep SMB accounting product. And its payments network to roll out. Yes, that can’t last forever, and half of it was from acquisitions (see the discussion below). But yes, it’s the most incredible SMB growth story in SaaS we’ve ever seen.

SaaS Payments 53

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 53

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Margin that is like software.

Retention 52

Retention SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 52

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

Scale 147

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 147

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. Manager, Business Development. People First Productivity Solutions. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. Director, Sales Solutions, North America. Manager, LinkedIn Sales Solutions. BMC Software.

VP of Engineering 121

VP of Engineering Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Payment Services 121

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

Scale 132

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. How does Vikas see the space play out in the coming years when it comes to acquisitions? Does this not lead to a consolidatory environment?

SaaS Payments 137

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Connect with Jakob on LinkedIn to stay updated on all things sales and let's dive into looking at the sales tools, which will power your sales process and take you to your next level of growth. Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? Drive Revenue. Terminus - Account-Based Marketing Platform for Quality Growth.

Scale 111

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this?

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

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.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To start, you could move your SaaS upmarket — go after bigger fish, the higher-value customers who will amplify your recurring revenue. For early and mid-stage SaaS companies, the desire (or pressure) to scale can drive the business into international territory. Compatible or accessible payment infrastructure.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments SaaS Scale 40

Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

SaaS Payments 128

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments SaaS 128

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They seem to be completely at odds, with one focused on clients with a high acquisition cost and high ACV (annual account value), the other focused on a high sales velocity. CRM platforms. Products that will involve an ongoing commitment, payment, or could affect the future in a large way. And much more.

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 82

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

We invest from the very earliest stages to the latest stages of software and consumer companies and we’re based in California. A lot of these businesses use a common marketing technique in order to grow really quickly, and that marketing technique is free trial. What does this mean? Here’s another slide.

Scale 208

Scale SMB Sales Hiring Payment Services 208

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 157

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. Low churn allows recurring revenue to grow, improves growth rate, and reduces the risk of long-term value loss. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year.

Sales Hiring 164

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 164

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

What’s their acquisition channel? Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. UiPath took 10 years to get to 1 million in revenue. UiPath took 10 years to get to 1 million in revenue. I could never go 10 years to 1 million in revenue. What’s their NRR?

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 199

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space. MailChimp (Touchless acquisition) – MailChimp is an email marketing tool that uses a touchless acquisition model to acquire customers.

Scale 192

Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 12, 2017

SMB to mid-market to enterprise or straight to enterprise?” ” It’s a key strategic question for many founders building software companies. Startups that initially target small to medium businesses benefit from several key advantages. First, these businesses are faster to revenue.

SMB 103

SMB Enterprise SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 103

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. So at this stage, these companies have these amazingly predictable monthly recurring revenues.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 217

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Ep 270: Jeppe Rindom is the Founder & CEO @ Pleo, the simple spending solution for your company automating expense reports and simplifying company expenses. Why did Jeppe decide to focus on SMBs from Day 1? How does the product build in the early days differ when building for SMB vs enterprise? What changes? *

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 125

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. We can switch off The Hustle acquisition. I'm just curious. Dharmesh: Yeah.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So doing that deal and bringing these guys in, are there any interesting observations or any entertaining little stories about either pre-acquisition or post that had to do with Sam and The Hustle? HubSpot has not done a lot of acquisitions in the past. We can switch off The Hustle acquisition. I'm just curious. Dharmesh: Yeah.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40