Stax

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Founded by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday encourages consumers to shop at local small businesses. Participating in Small Business Saturday can help SMBs boost revenue, foster customer loyalty, and strengthen the local economy. The 13th annual event is set for November 25th this year.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a stunning $25B+ market cap. Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. So they let folks use the platform the way they wanted, from paper checks to fax and more. #2. But each one is different.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. 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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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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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Margin that is like software.

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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

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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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Interested in customer relationship management (CRM) software that’s free forever? These zero-dollar-per-month platforms are packed with great features. I’ve picked out the top five free CRM software products on the market. The Top 5 Options For Free CRM Software. How to Choose the Best Free CRM Software for You.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Throughout this series, we have provided many resources to prepare you for this stage of your business journey. With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., What happens now?

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although credit cards have been around since the 1950s, in recent years, they’ve started to dethrone cash from its position as king of payment methods. With a whopping 84% of American adults owning at least one credit card (the average is 3 credit card accounts per person), card payments reached $9.43 trillion in 2021.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. There was a new emphasis on building software for people. Should you push more on GTM?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s a good idea to set up a business security system before you need it. A lot of people see cost as a barrier to installing a reliable business security system. That used to be true, but today, there are tons of really affordable solutions. There are DIY wireless systems available for a song. That’s fine.

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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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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2019

In a recent survey , BetterCloud reported that 73% of companies say nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2020. Recently, Gartner paired up with Google and shared in a webinar that while US software search volume is up 4% year over year (YoY), international search volume is up 12% YoY.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

He compares evergreen content to a bank account – you start with small incremental gains and with interest accumulating over time, it can yield enormous results. Integrations with other products can add valuable functionality making your own product stickier. Today they boast more than 20 integrations. They email.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Hurst: Yeah, so what I meant here is that as what would have historically been considered enterprise grade software becomes accessible to anyone with a laptop or phone at home. What did you mean by this?

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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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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Would I want my bank accounts and all my accounts published on the web? Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Would I want my bank accounts and all my accounts published on the web? Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB.

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