SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

They wanted to invest in apps, not APIs. And they had to go months with no money at all. “If you are in survival mode, you need to think through ever investments you make now, weighted toward survival first, but the best outcome after the crisis is over second.” But at that time, fundraising was really tough.

CTO Hire

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

And every single SaaS company I work with or invested in had a better July. Every airline without government support will collapse. And in any event, recurring revenue recurs. Keep your head down, and your customers happy, and in SaaS we can plow through almost anything. Even a global pandemic. July was good for SaaS.

Airlines

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2023

The classic example of Behavioral Loyalty is say United Airlines. But the customers are still loyal, i.e. they are still repeat customers, because (1) they get invested in the frequent flyer program and (2) the particular flights are understood and familiar. No one loves United.

Airlines

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others. Airnguru provides a pricing intelligence technology for airlines. With Airnguru, airline companies can boost their profits and decrease the necessary time-to-market. CEO : Marcelo Lombardo. Founded : 2013. Based in: São Paulo, Brazil. Funding to Date : $7.5M

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I can give you marketing examples about how robots are sitting on my laptop and then in the cloud doing work for us that we hate doing, the work that is done in a contact center or in an airline or work that’s done in your finance business. Every meeting we talk operationally about our investments. No, I’m joking.

Sales Hiring

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today, this complex, interconnected payments system functions similar to the airline industry: although airlines may offer international flights, they can’t cover all possible destinations and routes, necessitating the need for country- or region-specific local airlines.

Payment Services

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In an entirely different industry, and in an entirely different way, European budget airline Ryanair also demonstrates incredible consistency from its value prop (cheap flights) to its product to its brand identity. Three reasons companies get this stuff wrong. Navigating the pitfalls.

Branding

Kellblog

MAY 10, 2023

That means fly the airplane by using the flight controls and flight instruments to direct the airplane’s attitude, airspeed, and altitude … A famous example of a failure to aviate is the December 1972 crash of Flight 401, an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011. No investor wants to invest on terms inferior to the prior investors.

New CTO

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Just look at airlines. They may personally handle delivery like Doordash, take on financial risk to reduce friction of transactions like Faire, or provide loans to suppliers to help them invest in growing their business like Uber tried to do, or do multiple of these services like Shift. We’re not sure.

Marketplace as a Service

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 2, 2018

Airline loyalty programs – “I need to keep flying with [airline] otherwise I’ll lose my platinum status!”. My airline loyalty program allows me to fly around the world with perks I wouldn’t normally have access to. What’s interesting is that all of the above products have loyal, happy customers.

Airlines

Chargify

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you do any research on the term, you’ll find that its roots lie in the airline and hospitality industries. The SaaS companies that will win are the ones that effectively manage their revenue by prioritizing and investing in three key areas – billing , insights and revenue operations (RevOps). Revenue management.

Revenue

Unbounce

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A worthwhile investment, no? However, that’s precisely what ClaimCompass did for this landing page targeting travelers who’d been on delayed flights to, from, and within the European Union, where legislation mandates that airlines pay compensation for significant travel disruptions. Investing Shortcuts.

Mobile

Software Platform Consulting

MAY 16, 2017

Before We Get to Software… Warren Buffett recently announced that he was buying airline stocks. This is a man whose greatest quotes include many disparaging remarks about the airline industry (see here ). So why would the Oracle of Omaha invest in airlines now? Oligopolies Extend Well Beyond Airlines.

Payments

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while. Businesses merge their customer offerings with banking, insurance, investment, and loan services via an Application Programming Interface (API) linked to their financial partners.

Payments

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We quickly learned we could not serve most people asking for help because the investment was outside their budget. We figure out how to stretch your investment as far as we possibly can by providing customized services catered to your small business. When our agency started, we worked with mostly larger clients.

VP of Engineering

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

United Airlines can’t simply hire and train 10,000 new call center reps in 12 hours when terrible weather shows up, but dynamic compute can solve this. Can costs be reduced, customer support improved, NPS increased, new, previously unprofitable sales opportunities be unlocked? What about complicated corner cases? billion, against almost $2.8

VP of Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

But how do you decide when to build an app for your product and what platforms to invest in? MadKudu invested in integrations in order to unlock real-time access to customer data, which is key to their product’s success. I invited Liam Boogar-Azoulay who heads up marketing at MadKudu to share his experience. Short on time?

Scale

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

Once you go there, the return on investment question becomes very simple. If you try and go down the road of ROI, that gets you into looking at competitors and figuring out in the industry who has made money when they’ve invested in design. Why would we spend money when we could be making money? Let’s talk about that.

Sales Recruiting

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2021

Golden started his career as a lawyer in a large private law firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and then migrated to the industry as a lawyer with American Airlines and then its subsidiary, Sabre, a travel management company, before moving to the finance side at Sabre. “That was something I wanted to do.”

Metrics

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And she worked her way up to be one of the United Airline’s first female pilots. We come in and spend two very deep days with any client, where we get really clear on the investment, whom they’re investing in and why they’re investing in them. They didn’t have to do that.

Underperforming Technical Team

Panintelligence

JULY 24, 2024

For example, when booking a flight, customers can purchase travel insurance directly through the airline's website. Embedded investments Investment apps like Robinhood and Acorns have revolutionized the way people invest by embedding financial services into their platforms.

Payments

SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2019

Strangely enough, when I got a call from an investor who is about to invest in a new tiny little startup that really got my attention. So really investing in the different physical in person meetings you’ve got, be authentic to who you are and then have no shame, which is a big part of it. Anthony Kennada: Thank you.

Scale

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. Companies often have to keep customers for months or even years before they finally see a positive return on their investment to acquire each new customer.

Payment Features

OPEXEngine

JUNE 25, 2020

By early 2020, investment in the SaaS industry was at record highs and expected to hit even higher peaks. Of course, any company, whether large or small, selling to markets most directly impacted by Covid, such as travel, airlines, and restaurants, will be hard hit regardless of their financial strength coming into 2020. In early Feb.,

Benchmarks

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

Sam Blond: Sort of related, first thing that comes to mind is I would say invest in making sure that people are successful on the free trial. We always encourage most of the messaging to be customized and personalized, not as much in drips, but again slightly different model with us. ” Kristen Habacht: Right.

Merchant Services

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Another example is airline industry analysts use metrics like load factor, yield, and available seat-miles. Within an organization, these types of key metrics can be used to measure performance against objectives, to determine where to invest capital, and how to compensate employees.

Subscription

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Another example is airline industry analysts use metrics like load factor, yield, and available seat-miles. Within an organization, these types of key metrics can be used to measure performance against objectives, to determine where to invest capital, and how to compensate employees.

Subscription

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Priceline at the time was very well known for its airline ticket business, and we were trying to extend that platform into other verticals, so I was part of a very small group of people. We decided to invest in an enterprise sales team because we had done that at IntraLinks. We invested in international expansion.

Development Team Review

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages.

Payment Methods

Upscope

AUGUST 25, 2021

She tells you the flight she took previously, the airline, the best landing time to go straight to check-in at the airbnb. Example 4: Your crypto coins investment expert All that crypto coin stuff is confusing so you don't get involved but you feel like you're missing out. Once you've selected it, she books it for you.

Airlines

Upscope

AUGUST 25, 2021

She tells you the flight she took previously, the airline, the best landing time to go straight to check-in at the airbnb. Example 4: Your crypto coins investment expert All that crypto coin stuff is confusing so you don't get involved but you feel like you're missing out. Once you've selected it, she books it for you.

Airlines

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

PLG companies are also particularly suited to a land-and-expand model that uses bottom-up adoption to get a foothold in an organization without any major up front investment or risk. That’s an NPS below the airline industry, which is saying something. On the downside, only two out of five founders would recommend their VC.

Benchmarks

Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. Addressable revenue opportunity of $1bn+: As is the case for any startup, VCs optimise for investing in markets where there is a huge potential upside.

Marketplace as a Service

Software Platform Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

And don’t get me started on the airlines–which may be colluding ! Last week, The New York Times had another great example from the private equity industry.

Payment Solutions

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Invest some time and resources upfront, and you can create a homegrown, bespoke solution. When things break, or when there are bugs, who will be invested enough to fix them ASAP? Generally speaking, retailers, airlines, banks and other non-software firms are not. However, there are direct and indirect (hidden) costs to building.

VP of Engineering

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 27, 2019

For example, I detailed how TravelStart uses part of this strategy to acquire more online airline ticket sales than Nigerian airline companies in this case study. Looking at all the ways to predictably grow your business in this article, a common trend that can make each one possible is by investing in the right marketing.

Business

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Just look at airlines. They may personally handle delivery like Doordash, take on financial risk to reduce friction of transactions like Faire, or provide loans to suppliers to help them invest in growing their business like Uber tried to do, or do multiple of these services like Shift. We’re not sure.

Marketplace as a Service