Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Facilitation 88

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. Pricing models must be adaptable – 4/5 on this. How will inflation impact our customer’s business and business model? Toast isn’t a rare outlier either.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . The growth stages are defined as: Early Stage – Product/Market Fit Stage, .

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

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. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple.

Acquisition 137

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 137

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 solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

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. Align Revenue To The Value You Create.

Payments 70

Payments Revenue VP of Engineering Payment Methods 70

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. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Fighting skewed data with segmentation. First, segment the users of your product in a way that removes any bias that skewed data may hide. It documents the business your product is building, y et it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight.” Not always.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

And while there is a focus on G Suite security, I’m happy to answer questions about how to secure any system using these tips. In fact, they explicitly acknowledge that routine password changes make your systems LESS secure. Some of the tips are even a bit controversial, but I’ve tried to give the important reason for “why.”

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Technical Review 40

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. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

Growth Hacking 105

Growth Hacking Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 105

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 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

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.” The name RenderMan was coined in reference to the Sony Walkman for a futuristic rendering software that was so tiny it could fit inside a pocket.

Engineering 145

Engineering Technical Review Payments AI 145

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. Best Features to find in software for dropshipping.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Software Review Software 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. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? So they kind of got that wrong, right?

Payment Methods 188

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 188

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.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Winning with Data. 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. The New Solution Selling.

Scale 141

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 141

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. 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. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments.

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Payments 156

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Revenue models often get conflated with revenue streams, probably because each is a single revenue source.

Payments 40

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. Matt Garratt: So I think that is some good news.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

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. Provides excellent customer service.

B2C 40

B2C Merchant Services B2B Payment Services 40

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.

Marketplace as a Service 40

Marketplace as a Service SaaS Payments Payment Services Artificial Intelligence 40