Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff: Yeah.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow. What they stop doing is leaving.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections. That’s a useful tool.

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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. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. 907 employees at IPO, so about $150,000 revenue per employee. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care?

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2022

There’s been a run of incredible M&A, from Salesforce buying Slack for $27B, to Qualtrics’ $8b acquisition by SAP (and later IPO at $20b+), to Github’s $7.5b Unless there is a huge earn-out or retention payment tied to performance, the pressure is partially off. Some folks will prefer post-acquisition life.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) can be calculated by dividing all the Marketing and Sales costs required to acquire a new customer within a specific time. CAC is an important metric for growing businesses to determine profitability and efficiency. An average SaaS business spends 92% of their first-year revenue on customer acquisition.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Scheduled payments, aka recurring billing. Scheduled payments have become a core form of revenue collection. Of course, recurring payments vary depending on the business. As the subscription universe continues to expand, you can expect to see even more subscription payment plans. Expansionary revenue.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. What is the subscription revenue model?

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Michael Weir is a former director of the collaboration operations function at Global Payments, a financial technology services company that has evolved into a global leader in the payments space over the last 53 years. Can you tell me about your role at Global Payments and how you got into your current role?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 25, 2020

Acquisition is the weakest growth lever. We studied the levers—acquisition, retention, and monetization—of 512 SaaS companies. We found that monetization and retention have much higher revenue impacts than acquisition when considering the same level of impact across each growth lever. How do we know this?

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Software Platform Consulting

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s a story of how a small EDI player became an impressive company through acquisition and organic growth. The Scale of Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network. The scale of this network is described in the Change Healthcare S-1. Over $500 million in revenue on $1 trillion in claims processed.)

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 52

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. I came from a background before I started Lambda School where I was in a company called LendUp.

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FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s not easy to build a SaaS, software, or digital product from the ground up — and it’s even harder when you have to worry about all the other logistical details that go along with growing a business. An In-Person Discussion About Scaling Your Business Join us in Amsterdam on April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Final remarks.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Yeah, great.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions. Book the demo to see how!

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User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. Want to reduce customer churn? What is customer churn?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. Let’s get started. Pre-Startup.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Increase revenue growth. It might be from a confusing sign-up form, slow-loading pages, or a complicated payment process.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When you’re trying to decide how to scale your business and how to calculate profits, there are tons of metrics out there you can use. In fact, it’s easy for businesses to get overwhelmed by metrics and not know which ones to prioritize. Hubspot Focused On LTV to Scale Its SaaS Company.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today, opting for the right tools and technology is important for every business. However, there is something that is even more important—you need to have such an approach and the tech stack that can help scale and grow with time. SaaS companies mostly opt for the subscription business model.

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USIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Subscription Models: Usio will provide general insights into why subscription-based payment processing is often considered advantageous for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Predictable Revenue Streams: Subscription models provide a consistent and predictable revenue stream for SaaS companies.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 14, 2024

So in this blog, I will guide you through some of the top WhatsApp API providers in 2024, why you should you them, and how to find the best fit for your business. In today’s world, business owners face a lot of challenges to survive in the industry. You can read more about WhatsApp Business API here.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. The company’s move to circumvent Apple’s App Store policies with its app Fortnite triggered a lawsuit in the process.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance. A lower MTTR indicates a more efficient incident response and resolution process.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 5, 2024

On the financial side, distributors took a chunk of our already tight margins, and the 90-day payment terms from most retailers made cash flow difficult. I also felt that adding a subscription option for our dog food would allow us to better meet customer needs and support our company with reliable monthly recurring revenue (MRR).

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