Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff Sloan: Thanks for having me, Angela.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well. The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. This is really common, but it doesn’t have to be; if you have the right digital marketing strategy in place, growing your business is easier.

Underperforming Technical Team 145

Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Development Payment Methods 145

User Pilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? TL;DR Customer churn refers to the rate at which a business loses customers within a specific period. Reasons why customers churn: #1: Customers churn when there is a bad product-customer fit and your product’s features don’t align with their needs.

SaaS Payments 98

SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 98

Incredo

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

3) Almost any business in the world needs this or that software for its own needs. Software to track analytics, transfer payments, manage inventory, create videos and for many other things. 5) Everyone minds his own business. 2) Software companies can pay high commissions because they don’t sell physical products.

SaaS Payments 139

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services Sales Recruiting 139

Neil Patel

MAY 3, 2021

It’s more likely to be UX design or software development. With the internet and software playing such an essential part in our lives, more and more skilled programmers are needed to develop and maintain the tools we need to thrive. Interacting with Websites. It’s become much easier to build and run websites in recent years.

Payment Methods 108

Payment Methods Cybersecurity Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 108

User Pilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Satisfied customers are loyal customers who will stick to your brand and continue doing business with you. It is a UX research method that measures how easy it is for users to use your product. Ultimately, your choice of testing method will depend on your goals, product development stage, and more.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Services 98

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ? Tough question.

B2B 117

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 117

Stax

JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this. Let’s get started.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payfac Payment Services SaaS Payments 88

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

PHP can make your website better for SEO and better for your users. PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, is a programming language that allows users to create dynamic content on a website. The goal behind PHP is to help make your website more interactive and more interesting. There’s a lot of misconceptions about PHP for SEO.

Underperforming Technical Team 124

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 124

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Recurring Business Revenue. If you want to be in this niche, perhaps consider narrowing it down by choosing only to use small businesses or those from a specific region of the United States.

Outsourcing Services 123

Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding.

Payment Solutions 110

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 110

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re looking the best online payment processor, you've likely come across options including Stripe and Zuora. Both power a wide range of companies, but which is the best for your business? Wide Range of Payment Options Stripe helps companies take their business international, with support for over 135 currencies.

Payment Methods 75

Payment Methods Payment Services Technical Review Merchant Services 75

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Starting a business, even a bootstrapped one, is expensive. Wrike is a versatile and comprehensive project management tool, perfect for startups and businesses of all sizes. Wrike also makes collaboration seamless with shared calendars, file sharing, and team reports time tracking. Bootstrapping Tools to Create a Website.

Payment Methods 110

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payments 110

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But Dopple’s team took the opposite approach. We want people that are trying to do something a little different and lean into future-proofing their business.”

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 140

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. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

Scale 157

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 157

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

FastSpring

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What we really want to talk about are resolutions that will make your digital business better than it was last year. Regardless of whether you just had the best business year of your life or are considering a full overhaul, here are some resolution ideas to kickstart the new year. This is probably every business’s #1 goal every year.

Payment Methods 62

Payment Methods Business Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 62

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. How you should think about building a sellable business. Jump to highlights.

Software Review 146

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 146

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

Scale 147

Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 147

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. Bad customer support: Poor customer support leaves customers without help or thinking their complaints are not taken seriously.

Churn 98

Churn Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 98

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. A business is SaaS or SaaS-like if it sells anything else software-related.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

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.

Scale 119

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 119

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Sure, every business may have their own world-changing differentiator.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone. But what makes B2B content good ? Tough question.

B2B 56

B2B Technical Advisors SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 56

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 How are we going to do this? How are we going to do that?

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. If you get the setup wrong, you end up with bad data, incorrect reports and forecasts, which has a material impact on the business.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

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. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut. Thankfully, there is Baremetrics to do all of this for you.

Payments 98

Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 98

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

To tap into the market, companies need to gain an edge over their competitors in all aspects of their business. Fortunately, for any pain point you can think of, someone has carefully crafted a best-in-class subscription business tool to solve the problem. Payment processing. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Scale 162

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Marketing 162

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

Payment Methods 195

Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payment Features 195

FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

Customer Success 156

Customer Success VP of Engineering Payments Payment Methods 156

ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

While it may be tempting to resort to Hail Mary tactics (such as deferred payments and discounts) to reduce churn, you must instead focus on sustainable and scalable retention strategies. Define what customer health looks like for your business. The key to making your scorecard valuable is to develop a customer health score scale.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services Payment Methods Scale 94