FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. How are we going to do that?

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the most important changes sparked by the subscription economy, and the move to software as a service, has been the shift from customer support to customer success. The customer success leader is often the person who owns the renewal number. How will inflation impact our customer’s business and business model?

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. All of your data has to be right. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers.

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Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 143

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc. I’ve come to realize this saying describes an optimal strategy for a lot more than just an ad-supported revenue model. Email marketing tools have mastered this.

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Payments Revenue VP of Engineering Payment Methods 70

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many of these tips are oldies but goodies to cybersecurity experts, but I’ve tried to include a few unique tips with my personal explanation for each. Plus, the website [link] has a great tool for passphrase generation. I recommend using a simple cipher for a website plus a base passphrase. Sign up for [link].

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It documents the business your product is building. This treatment is a disservice to the value an in-depth, methodical, and iterative analysis can unearth. Fighting skewed data with segmentation. First, segment the users of your product in a way that removes any bias that skewed data may hide.

Scale 52

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. So how we accomplish something at the enterprise level in a one to few or a one-to-one or a one to few is very different to how you would accomplish it in a self service model.

Payment Methods 196

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. That makes measuring value easier because you’ve already identified what business challenge you’re tackling. Thank you Ceci.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 7, 2021

Software for dropshipping is a must if you are planning to start this e-commerce business model. To Be very sure about owning a profitable dropshipping business, you need to be wise enough with the software you are using for dropshipping. In the end, you shall also get to know the top 10 softwares for dropshipping store.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review Software 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 122

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While games are rendered in real-time on end-user devices based on input, VFX/animation shots are rendered offline in data centers and “pre-canned.” Further, with the assets, data, and transformations co-located in the cloud vs locally, developers can scale compute elastically to complete a specific task.

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Engineering Technical Review Payments AI 145

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Winning with Data. 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. You don’t have to be subservient, forfeit your self-respect, or fake enthusiasm about your product or service. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization.

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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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. My account runs my website. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

Thanks to the explosive growth of products like Dropbox, Asana and Slack, the self-serve model has been all the rage for close to a decade. The self-service model requires little to no selling whatsoever, saving time, labor and resources for a growing startup. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Revenue models often get conflated with revenue streams, probably because each is a single revenue source. They are also confused with business models, of which revenue models are a part. Revenue models help business owners determine how to manage their revenue streams and are required to complete a business model.

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Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. It’s a business crisis.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 164

Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

UK online education company EdPlace has emerged as a “parent champion,” providing online tutorial services designed to help parents support their children in their education (specifically Math, English, and Science) at an affordable price. Managing both B2B and B2C business models. The birth of EdPlace.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 19, 2024

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way businesses operate, offering scalable solutions accessible over the internet. This shift has not only transformed internal business operations but has also significantly impacted external market dynamics.

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