Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And they ended up in real statements.

Payment Solutions 101

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 101

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. There are two common modes here in lead gen and peer to peer e.g. Zillow, Thumbtack, Craigslist.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Online learning is a new trend which we are have encountered by now. Online learning and course are expected to rise with time and see a figure of $325 billion by 2025. Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. Why Choose an Online Course Platform?

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, you can sell services that lead to revenue coming in, you can put more money into the company as owner’s equity , or you can take out a bank loan as a new liability. For example, you can pay your hosting bill, which is an expense, or you could pay back a bank loan, which is reducing liability.

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Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

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 135

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

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Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

PHP can make your website better for SEO and better for your users. PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, is a programming language that allows users to create dynamic content on a website. The goal behind PHP is to help make your website more interactive and more interesting. There’s a lot of misconceptions about PHP for SEO.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 124

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Wide Range of Payment Options Stripe helps companies take their business international, with support for over 135 currencies. Both power a wide range of companies, but which is the best for your business?

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2022

Later in Nike’s journey, its bank, Bank of California, fired it. The bank refused to do any business with Nike. Without a bank, Nike was almost on the verge of collapse. “… the net-net is that I have no bank. 2) Hire a Team of Believers. And so were all other early Nike team members.

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Startup Payment Methods Sales Hiring Banking 97

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

Scale 150

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 150

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Now that was something you found online and bought in person. They have a lot of that going on.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 146

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. So Plaid, we build the infrastructure that lets consumers interact with their bank accounts on the web. Enter the platform company. Zach : Yet.

Payments 146

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 146

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. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. Your registration.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 115

All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Unlimited expense tracking and reporting from Gmail, Outlook, mobile app, Slack, phone gallery, mileage, and Per Diem. Personal card management. Personal card management. Phone Gallery. Direct Bank Feeds.

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Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Merchant Services 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. Our bank account takes a hit. Selling to Big Companies. Top of Mind.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business. The Cost of Bad Setup: You Can’t Trust the Data In the early days of Forecast+ , I recall meeting with a founder of a multi-million dollar SaaS company. When a payment comes in, it should decrease.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

And the vast majority of people think they’re bad for business and branding. If someone’s already bored on your website and wants to leave it, why is it bad to give it another shot and try to catch their attention before they leave? It’s triggered when the website visitor wants to leave your website.

Payment Methods 112

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales 112

Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Every call center ceo/manager should spend AT LEAST a full shift on the phone." A couple of them our team did. Selfishly enjoying the 5-10 minutes of silence when your phone didn't ring , while trying to throw your coworkers of their game until your phone rang. ??Constantly Don't let them know that.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. Well, to most of you, that may not seem crazy today.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 148

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows.

Sales Hiring 89

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 89

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Payment Methods 156

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. There are two common modes here in lead gen and peer to peer e.g. Zillow, Thumbtack, Craigslist.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay.

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Compensation Sales Hiring Development Team Review Sales Recruiting 103

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

He’s an incredible founder, person and a very, very dear friend, and changing the way SaaS as an industry will work and be structured in the future. And when I was young, I used to travel the country with him setting up his market store to sell clothes. Especially when there’s kind of that continuity on the team.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 210

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. ” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. A dunning process is the manner you go about recovering your customers' failed payments. Your team follows up and payment is recovered. Think about that.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 119

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

For example: Company A was funded by some of the founders’ savings, a small line of credit from the local bank, and profits from customers. Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team.

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Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 135

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 135

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. What is Tradeshift really? Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

Payment Solutions 144

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 144

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

But it sounds like the bad news is you’ve got a limited runway. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. They know everyone, and if they don’t, someone on their vast team does. Like if you have a three people in a team, what do you think that is recession proof right now?

Scale 196

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 196