Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. 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.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Why does Dave believe 99% of companies die? *

Sales Hiring 139

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 139

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Integrating customer-facing subscription management tools on your own site. Correspondence automation.

Payments 78

Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 139

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 139

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. How do you help your team make that link to value?

Payment Methods 207

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 207

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Heap is a robust product analytics platform that provides users with a plethora of in-depth insights into customer behavior and needs. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Similarly, you can share Session Replays with other team members.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Heap is a robust product analytics platform that provides users with a plethora of in-depth insights into customer behavior and needs. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Similarly, you can share Session Replays with other team members.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics studies user interactions with a product or service, allowing product teams to monitor, evaluate, and assess data related to customer engagement and behavior. This information is used by teams to optimize their product or service to improve user experience. Let’s dive in!

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

TL;DR SaaS reporting refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and presenting data related to the performance, usage, and effectiveness of a SaaS product.It assists businesses in achieving revenue growth, informed decision-making, and financial health by efficiently managing all aspects of operations.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Appcues is a robust product adoption and user onboarding platform for web and mobile apps. It enables product teams to create, implement, and test personalized in-app onboarding experiences. The platform also helps you announce new product features and collect customer feedback. Many of these include two-way integrations.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Software Review 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

SaaS Payments 265

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 265

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount. Or if you said you had $2,000 in monthly revenue churn, that means you lost $2,000 in monthly recurring revenue from either customer cancellations or downgrades. So, when should you start worrying?

Churn 145

Churn Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 145

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. Because there is not benchmarks. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

Payments 103

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

Where is the revenue leakage happening? Again, a great customer acquisition rate with a bad customer retention rate is akin to throwing water into a leaky bucket. For subscription-based businesses like SaaS companies, understanding how many subscriptions you lose each payment period is crucial. How fast is it happening?

Retention 52

Retention Metrics SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 52

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If your SaaS company doesn’t have a pricing strategy in place, you’re leaving huge revenues on the table. This means the strategies for setting subscription prices are very different than pricing traditional products—ongoing customer payments and complex product packages mean SaaS companies need to put more thought into their pricing.

Pricing 64

Pricing SaaS Payments Strategy Payments 64

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

survey User Churn and Revenue Churn Quick Ratio. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. They couldn’t successfully monetize Scott because he could do everything he wanted to for free.

Retention 136

Retention Strategy Payment Solutions Technical Advisors 136

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Your KPIs are driven by your business goals. You need to make sure they are SMART, quantitative and benchmarked. 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Not only that, it’s essential in businesses of all sizes. If it generates revenue, then revenue should definitely be a KPI!

SaaS Payments 90

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

User Churn and Revenue Churn. Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. They couldn’t successfully monetize Scott because he could do everything he wanted to for free. Guessing is a bad strategy.

Retention 52

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts. Source: ProfitWell We’ve covered why high churn is undesirable, but let’s turn our attention to why low churn is important and what it means for a SaaS business.

Churn 152

Churn SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? And so really it became a bad habit. Why is it no longer to come into large enterprises with a small contract and expand?

VP of Engineering 130

VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 130