SaaStr

MARCH 18, 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. In fact, more than 80% of Americans in the last year bought through Stripe, but obviously through a business that ran on Stripe. Our team is in Room 111.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. I’d be the first to admit this wasn’t very effective and needed an overhaul.

Churn 71

Churn SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 71

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Likewise, checkout is the point where customers say goodbye to eCommerce retailers. In this article, SubscriptionFlow offers an ultimate tech solution for those who want to run their eCommerce business and need to make transactions from or to the South African region. And why do we emphasize so much on the checkout experience?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 59

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. A dunning process is the manner you go about recovering your customers' failed payments. Your team follows up and payment is recovered.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

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. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. What do I need funding for?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 132

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

HubSpot now offers freemium versions of their CRM, Marketing and Sales products. How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model? No business model is foolproof, of course.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. How do you help your team make that link to value? One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? And it’s a combination of things.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 196

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Ep 255: Vikas Bhambri is SVP Sales and Customer Experience @ Kustomer, the startup providing Real-time, actionable views of customers with continuous omnichannel conversations and intelligence that automates repetitive, manual tasks. What is the right way for startup founders to address sales rep onboarding? Missed the session?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 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. I mean, this is quite new.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. What Is the SaaS Business Model? The SaaS business model is basically a subscription-based service. You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue.

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Business Model B2B SaaS Payments Payment Features 10

FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. The person using your SaaS product may not have access to the credit card used to sign up. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails.

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Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 135

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Early stage.

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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. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. And of course, a strong sales comp plan needs to motivate reps to hit goals that grow the company while still maintaining a profit margin. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Know what to Include in a Sales Incentive Plan. Keep it Simple.

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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. 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. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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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

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial? Try Baremetrics free.

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Payments Sales SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Unlike revenue, where more is basically always better, and expenses, where lower is basically always better, cash in is not necessarily good and cash out is not necessarily bad. However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! Instead, it relies on accounting data.

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Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Loving our podcast content?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 163

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. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Before we get into the interview, a bit of background - I have hired Soren’s team at Working Planet multiple times. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston. Secondly, know your business KPIs and use those as a lens for evaluating marketing performance.

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 122

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. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SmartKarrot

MAY 13, 2022

3 Mobile Phone – The introduction of mobile phones to the general masses compelled businesses to pay more attention to customers’ individuality. Blockchain – disrupting banking and finance for businesses. Mobile Payments – disrupting the transactions between businesses and customers. Final Words.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should sales and marketing work together on pricing? 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. My account runs my website. What can you do to make the land as frictionless as possible?

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 257

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

SaaS Payments 111

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 111

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Let’s take a closer look at its benefits.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Let’s take a closer look at its benefits.

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Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. Her team loved working for her. COO, what does it mean?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

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Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 69

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

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