SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Cloud 166

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 166

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. We’re not sure.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this? A few more.

Cloud 101

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 101

Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

Recurring billing is a subscription payment model that automatically charges customers at regular intervals for access to a product or service. This business model is used for subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other solutions offered on a recurring basis. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Features 88

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2023

Once a company has decided it wants to embark on the journey to become public, the first thing it must do is select a group of investment banks. At the end of the day each company only goes public once, while investment banks have taken hundreds (if not thousands) of companies public and have a wealth of experience to tap into.

Cloud 49

Cloud Marketing Banking Pricing 49

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

SaaS Payments 83

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 83

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything. Do you not think that actually we’ve just transferred to cloud lock-in versus on-prem lock-in? So what do I know right? vendors right?

SaaS Payments 130

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

Valerian Tech

JUNE 26, 2023

While each company's specific circumstances and business model foster its own unique set of issues to navigate, there are a few key areas that commonly prove challenging to fintech management. Introduction Fintech companies continue to revolutionize the financial industry.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Scale User Experience Banking 52

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These are only a glimpse of what automated SaaS billing software brings to the table for a subscription-based business model. Long-term customer retention is a major challenge, and the high churn rates of this business model can make it difficult for companies to build stable revenue. Accounting and bank reconciliation.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The current Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business landscape is going through a mass subscription revolution. Thanks to the advent of cloud computing, SaaS businesses are no longer selling their products in the forms of hardware. This has greatly facilitated the widespread implementation of subscription based billing models.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Facilitation 59

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2023

So, whether you’re hiring or you’re selling or you’re running a leadership meeting, a lot of the time you’re banking on your natural skills and experience to get you to a good result so you can move on to the next thing. A lot of young entrepreneurs are so earnest, they wear their strategy and business model on their sleeve.

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Leadership Company Culture Startup 191

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

You’re playing in the premier league of the world when it comes to cloud, when it comes to SaaS, when it comes to AI, and that means if you’re not number one, the power law that Peter Thiel talks a lot about is going to kick your ass harder here than anywhere else in the world. How far is SAP to become a cloud company again?

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 145

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Type 1 SaaS Architecture – This type of architecture basically requires runtime and data isolation, but not necessarily on the cloud. Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. Type 2 SaaS Architecture – Unlike Type 1, this architecture needs runtime and data isolation on the cloud as well.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Passion and dedication of the founder and the business model’s distribution potential are key points for investment models. Vitor Torres shared his journey in founding Contabilizei and how they integrated accounting with banking solutions to provide a full-stack experience for their customers. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review VP of Engineering Development Team Review Software Review 90

Chart Mogul

APRIL 15, 2021

At the same time, his team is helping the larger organization bring its product line to the cloud. This made it essential for them to track and forecast cash in the bank in order to make sure they were growing sustainably. It has given him the opportunity to scale the team and double down on building the best product. Click To Tweet.

Acquisition 83

Acquisition Data Scale Banking 83

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated. At the exact same time, that company hadn’t moved basic applications to the cloud. So, whether it’s cloud storage or cloud video or messaging.

Sales Recruiting 148

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 148

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did. Banking and FinTech, all over the place. So we spent a lot of time there.

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 189

Chart Mogul

APRIL 15, 2021

At the same time, his team is helping the larger organization bring its product line to the cloud. This made it essential for them to track and forecast cash in the bank in order to make sure they were growing sustainably. It has given him the opportunity to scale the team and double down on building the best product. Tweet this quote.

Acquisition 52

Acquisition Data Scale Banking 52

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I’ve been a business partner of Finance and the CFO in several public companies in past lives, and SaaS Finance today is a more demanding operation than Finance was in traditional software companies. SaaS companies tend to have more Finance headcount than traditional, non-Cloud companies. SaaS Finance Benchmarks.

Finance 40

Finance CTO Hire Headcount SaaS 40

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2019

And, during that period of time we began to see the early phase of cloud and SaaS companies, and we saw the change in the business model and had conviction that it was a powerful change and would really fundamentally alter the way we thought about software companies. And, by the end of that day, worst day of my business career.

Scale 141

Scale Leadership Finance Software Review 141

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But I also handle our integrations with things like CloudFlare, New Relic, and all the major cloud providers. Here, we’re validating all the assumptions that we had to make in the initial business case to put together an offer. And they’re literally going to ask for bank statements. David Vogelpohl Very interesting.

Software Review 147

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 147

ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Hiring without money in the bank presented a challenge, but she said offering part-time hours or equity in the business was a good solution. Twilio , cloud communications platform, also found success after launching in the midst of a financial crisis. It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank.

Data 52

Data Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value Subscription 52

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement. Change to cloud-native. First-generation cloud solved a deployment problem; second-generation solves a development problem as well. Are multiples down?

Blockchain 142

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. Along the way too, we also set up a business called the Cloud. Norman: Yeah.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. Jonathan: And you describe yourself as a technologist first, or a business person? Jonathan : Did you ever get advice during the downturn to like, hey, raise money now so you have stuff in the bank? That is a business model. Vlad : Yeah.

Scale 144

Scale Business Sales Hiring CTO Hire 144

BetterCloud

OCTOBER 16, 2020

There was really no one in the company to manage the application website, so I became the person that was maintaining this bank of modems, our servers, and the website. We had tight margins so we really relied on new technology to reduce costs and make our business model work.

Travel 52

Travel Leadership Technology Interviewing 52

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

Over the last 10 years and 5 years with the advent of SaaS mobile cloud platforms, it’s become hard to connect so many things together and do it in a way that’s efficient and doesn’t drain a bunch of time. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal. It came from pretty humble beginnings.

Technical Advisors 158

Technical Advisors Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 158

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Why SaaS is your business model, not your mission. Missed the session? Here’s what Andy talks about: *Selling the way your customers want to buy. Andrew Filev.

Sales Hiring 143

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 143

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. We were split up into groups. He was put on a table with me, but with a group that he was unfamiliar with. That really stuck with me.

Scale 130

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 130

SmartKarrot

JUNE 2, 2022

As a B2B company, you may be having a subscription-based business model, and the frequency of purchases may be less as the customers opt for half-yearly or annual packages. Learn and earn – Business partners get to earn points for completing their educational modules. Remember the days when you saved money in a piggy bank?

B2B 10

B2B Scale Travel Education 10

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

Social Media – disrupted the traditional models of advertisement Cloud Computing – disrupted the internal working environment of companies. Big Data – disrupted the traditional decision-making patterns of businesses. Blockchain – disrupting banking and finance for businesses.

B2B 10

B2B Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Social Media 10