Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

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. What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 137

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

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. For example, banking. Most African markets never had a banking infrastructure the like of which we used to here.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 169

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 124

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. So Plaid, we build the infrastructure that lets consumers interact with their bank accounts on the web. The core thesis behind it is banking was built for a world that didn’t envision the internet. You link a bank account and then you can immediately do what you want to do. Zach : Yet.

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Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 149

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Grasswire, it was because we had no team and no monetization strategy, which I do not recommend. All of the cool ideas that you had, you would get really clear feedback about what was going on, but if it was a good idea, it would really move the needle in revenue and volume.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 143

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. So actually having a good process for getting that buy-in is extremely important. And then the last one is not creating an environment around transparency around money in the bank and KPIs. We had half a million in the bank.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 170

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Predictable Revenue. Wooden on Leadership. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 205

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. . Remember that deploying enterprise software can cost a company millions of dollars, so you must show that your product is worthwhile. Enterprise clients can hire the top employees.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 152

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath. Although SaaS companies share many features across their business models, there is enough variation that requires differentiation in the financial model. Set up the Model Structure. Operating Model.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2019

Square is a $30 billion market cap company that is an all encompassing payments and commerce business that serves the small and medium sized businesses of the world. Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. Our second sponsor is the leading sales engagement platform, Outreach.io.

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Payments Scale Sales Hiring Payment Methods 56

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Here’s proof: In 2008, Hilmon was running a media business with about 80% of his revenue coming from commercial real estate and banking. Challenger, solution-based selling, value-based selling — whatever it is, get a good one and use it consistently.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 137

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But we’ve had to figure it out over the last 10 years to understand how to find these small business customers. So they project the small businesses will spend more than 600 billion dollars globally on technology, that’s obviously a huge business, and many of us here serve businesses, not just in the US but also abroad.

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Payment Methods Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Business 102