Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. For instance, perhaps you position your product as a best-of-breed solution that can be deployed against a specific use case with a faster implementation and time-to-ROI than others.

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Healthcare AI Payments Enterprise 109

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CRM (customer relationship management) software can help with just that. ROI and Cost-Effectiveness: CRM is an economical and ROI-driven solution, which means that it yields a favourable return on investment over time. But the question then arises: how can one accomplish that in a field that is cutthroat and evolving quickly?

Payments 59

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 59

FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

This way, we can ensure that we’re not only improving our ecommerce solution to better meet your needs, but also the ever-changing demands of the digital economy. Want to learn more about the five ecommerce payment trends shaping 2020? Push for smarter payment processing. A push for smarter payment processing.

Payment Methods 80

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 80

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model? This model contrasts the traditional—and outdated—model where users purchase and install software on their computers or servers.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Growth is what moves the valuation needle and growth depends on innovation, speed and agility, not annual planning processes. Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Features like unique billing and subscription services have completely shifted the gaming business model. In a Games as a Service environment, payments are unique and personalized, offering a wide range of accessibility to incoming gamers. Games as a Service Payment Options. Games as a Service Business Models.

Payments 122

Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 122

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. Being “stuck in the middle” drives SMM SaaS companies to invest in one of two strategies.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

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. Science, conscious consumers, and next-gen founders will drive ESG’ innovation in 2022.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

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. Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

SaaS Payments 132

SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

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. But we provide a combination of APIs and software. Payments has been around for thousands of years. Dare I say SaaS. They were self taught developers.

Scale 152

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 152

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

More recently, the concept of “fund-strapping,” aka taking outside investment or external funding options with the intention of not having to raise any more funding again, has become another viable option for businesses. Build your startup in a way that you don’t need investment. The primary investment is usually time.

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Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

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. I’m Vicki Lin.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

What ends up happening is, they think these investors are so smart, and they think these investors, because they like and want to invest in their company, their company must be amazing and it’s going to go on to become the next big thing. Number three is not understanding their business model.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Getting the best inventory management software for your business will make all of it a reality. And if that isn’t enough, the software tool can also help you reduce operating costs, increase revenue, and most importantly, ensure greater customer satisfaction. How to Choose the Best Inventory Management Software for You.

Payment Solutions 103

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review Payment Services 103

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Software for developers tends to get lumped into one broad category. Open-source audiences demand high value in exchange for payment, but consistently innovate and provide impressive feedback loops for commercial purposes. These businesses usually move into the applications space. Open-source models.

Payment Solutions 68

Payment Solutions Development Software Payments 68

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

What is a Disruptive Innovation or Technology? The term disruptive innovation finds its first mention in a book written by Clayton Christensen. The book ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail’ talks about innovative technologies that have the potential to transform an industry completely.

B2B 10

B2B Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Social Media 10

User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

New customers bring in subscription fees, licensing charges, or usage-based payments, which are the lifeblood of SaaS businesses. As more customers are acquired, the company’s revenue stream expands, enabling it to invest in product development, innovation, and scaling operations. Book a demo now to learn more.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition SaaS Payments Payment Methods Metrics 104

FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. Test creative SaaS pricing model combinations to unlock revenue. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

SaaS Payments 140

SaaS Payments Pricing Payments Merchant Services 140

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations).

Engineering 145

Engineering Payments Technical Review AI 145

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5 After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue. How do you decide how much to pay yourself versus invest back in the business?

Payment Methods 114

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 114

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Remember, entrepreneurship is all about investing in your long-term success. Sure, there’s value in studying short-term data for day-to-day business planning, but don’t neglect your trend forecasting. Mobile apps and e-commerce stores are big business. It’s easy to integrate popular payment platforms, like Stripe.

Entrepreneurship 144

Entrepreneurship Payment Methods Trends Payment Services 144

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Innovating for People. 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

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? This is not a winnable solution.

Payment Methods 190

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 190

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s amazing how people can innovate when they’re forced to. Generally speaking, building a software product—even a minimum viable product—is going to take more effort and time than selling your skills as services. That’s the approach that we chose to keep ourselves financially afloat in the early stages of building Outseta.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Naomi Pilosof Ionita | Investing Partner @ Menlo Ventures. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. This lesson is a nod to the book, Monetizing Innovation.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

285: Hear 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. But what’s more powerful about NPS as a program is the system and the system is the root cause analysis and follow up.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

With such low SaaS product prices, you should be more careful with your large investments in lead generation and control your resources even more effectively.That means that the customer experience you provide should be streamlined and infallible enough to generate leads and convert customers on its own.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

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. More than that — the choice determines the future of your business. They are also confused with business models, of which revenue models are a part.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

SmartKarrot

MAY 14, 2020

This is the dynamics followed by all the companies selling tangible products and the software companies too continued with the same momentum in their initial days until the advent of SaaS based customer engagement model. . This is where a SaaS Customer Engagement model as an organizational process comes into picture.

Engagement 10

Engagement Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods 10

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space. MailChimp (Touchless acquisition) – MailChimp is an email marketing tool that uses a touchless acquisition model to acquire customers.

Scale 192

Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

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

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. How do we define Customer Success Coverage Models?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. During this period I’ve learnt more than I ever thought possible about the SaaS business and my personal growth has accelerated with each passing year. You can clearly see what the return will be from every dollar, euro or pound invested.

SaaS Payments 131

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services Business 131

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. Our own SaaS originated as an internal solution for a leading payment gateway provider. But a key challenge impacting the Fintech scene is investment—or lack of.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payments Technical Review Payment Services 75