Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. Let’s say you have a CAC payback time of 12 months, i.e. your fully-loaded customer acquisition costs equal 12 months of gross profit.

Sales Recruiting 61

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

It begins to feel like you’re on to something, and you’re starting to think about raising more money to accelerate product development and customer acquisition. With a few million dollars in ARR, improvements to how you manage working capital, credit controls, payments, various currencies, etc. Some time around the $0.5–1.5

Sales Hiring 72

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

Enterprise 10

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

I’ve come to believe that there are only two scenarios where it undeniably makes sense to raise venture capital: You’re building something so capital intensive that it can’t possibly be built without massive amounts of money. If the second describes you, well done—venture capital may very well make sense for you.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

Sales Recruiting 170

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

An attractive Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is hugely positive; Lifetime Value (LTV) is largely assumptions-based at this stage and there are often few cohorts to analyze; low churn is important (though, again, there may be few renewal cycles to evaluate); a strong Net Promoter Score® (NPS) is always good. .

Scale 98

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I work with Dawn Capital. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Then we deploy the capital to build. Evgenia : Hi.

New CTO 147

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

So what’s the solution? As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015.

Technical Review 199

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.

Customer Success 136

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. In times of frozen budgets for investments in non essencial software and innovation, acquisition cost will exeed rational, affordable levels. 11 and Neuer Markt aera.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. In times of frozen budgets for investments in non essencial software and innovation, acquisition cost will exeed rational, affordable levels. 11 and Neuer Markt aera.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52