Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Finding channel/market fit. Are we still a startup? Pre-Startup.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

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

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Sometimes we call ourselves experts in failure. Like any good list, I have a top ten list.

Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 168

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 128

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 128

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple.

Acquisition 139

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 139

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. Gaining new customers.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

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

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

These customers believe in you—s igning a longer contract is a strong sign your customers are willing to commit to your product. If they're willing to make such a big monetary commitment, they're likely more invested in using your product to win and less likely to churn out after a short time period. What is a good churn rate?

Churn 55

Churn SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 55

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. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. So I knew nothing about building a card product. Why don’t you put them on a card?

Merchant Services 76

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 76

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr.

Investment 161

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 161

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? On your way to building a go-to-market strategy to launch a new product, you might wonder the former question a lot. GTM metrics are pieces of data or indicators that help product marketers like you keep track of the success of their strategy.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 105

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. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 271

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

With more players entering the SaaS market and the growing use of digital technology in marketing, traditional marketing alone cannot sustain your business. Therefore, leveraging growth marketing is crucial to stand out among your competitors. Activation: Users realize the value of your product ( Aha!

Growth Marketing 98

Growth Marketing SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Methods 98

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. 10% is a problem.

SaaS Payments 244

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 244

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Business Snapshot Years in business: 6.5 This sounds complicated but it’s really a simple equation to make sure our prices are high enough—especially as we continue to improve our product (which often means higher expenses!). If I need to deny myself investments, I see it as proof that my business model is off.

Payment Methods 115

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payments Business 115

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) is the monitoring, gathering, and analyzing of user actions and data using monitoring systems, allowing you to acquire useful insights into your users’ desires, concerns, and challenges.It Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SmartKarrot

MAY 17, 2022

The startup stage is also called the problem/solution fit stage. Working on the MVP and improving the core features, so you achieve the right product/market fit Hiring the key personnel who understand the mission/vision Getting the payment from customers Collecting the seed money.

Startup 10

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales Hiring 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

Payment Solutions 148

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 148

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Basically, every user interaction is an event, and this can be everything that the user does in the app or on the website, for example, clicking on a button, completing a form, viewing a page, closing a pop-up window, etc. With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User analytics is the process of capturing and analyzing user behavior within your product. This helps to understand how different segments act in-app, identify friction and drop-off points, and make data-driven decisions. With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

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. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Are you a marketplace or are an e-commerce retailer?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With Heap, you can track user interactions in real time across all touch points within your product. Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. B2C, low vs. high volume transactions, and subscription vs. consumption vs. hybrid business models.

Payments 53

Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

When it comes to getting the word out about your product, ask yourself, “Who do my customers and prospects turn to for advice when they are looking to learn about great solutions or make a buying decision?” For accounting and payroll products, the No. Can you invest in customer acquisition too early? I built an audience.

Acquisition 156

Acquisition Strategy SaaS Payments Payments 156

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 160

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 160

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. When we went in and set goals, it was sometimes related to wanting to move like, “We want to reduce payments costs.”

CTO Coach 125

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 125

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. Complex Use Cases: Typically, the more complex a use case or business model is, the more differentiated our product is.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring SaaS Payments 40

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The product itself should be developed with single user persona or small teams in mind, while every touch point between the potential customer and the actual purchase should be lean and optimized for self-service. This is a unique SaaS sales model and the benefits are stark. Picking the ideal software sales model.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

Obviously Product/Market fit is a big factor here, but assuming you have a relative level of Product Market fit, I think the next thing key factor is having the right Go To Market model. It’s not the specific marketing tactics you use, but more the high-level description of how you acquire customers.

Scale 192

Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

If you’re selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to switch to subscriptions, your path to roll out this massive change to your business is filled with peril.

Subscription 151

Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions 151

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. Customer Success is transformative.

Customer Success 136

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