Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. For many founding teams, pricing is one of the most difficult and complex decisions for the business. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. Startups adopt the pricing model well known in the industry.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? No base salary, commission only Pros: This model is great especially if you are a startup. Besides, your startup doesn’t have to pay taxes for commission-based only employees and offer benefits. See below! Profit-based commission Pros: Any company would like this idea.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. Buffer spent $3.3

Finance 111

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

What are 5 common SaaS sales compensation models? No base salary, commission only Pros: This model is great especially if you are a startup. Besides, your startup doesn’t have to pay taxes for commission-based only employees and offer benefits. See below! Profit-based commission Pros: Any company would like this idea.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2016

What is the optimal contract length with for your SaaS startup? It’s common to see SaaS startups initially price their products on a monthly basis, then add an enterprise “Call Me” plan which hides behind it an annual contract. Annual contracts bring predictability to a SaaS startup. Monthly, annual, multiyear?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

You’d probably work on growing your business, right? Maybe you’d spend it creating new marketing campaigns to generate more revenue. Regardless, the average small business owner spends five hours every pay period running payroll. The best payroll services exist to simplify the process of paying your employees.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The chart above, copied from David Skok’s great SaaStr presentation , shows the unit cash flow for monthly payment plans. This company invests $12k in month one to acquire a customer and receives $1k in payment, netting -$11k in cash flow. By collecting the cash up-front, startups neutralize this effect.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2023

Five months after launching was the first time my creator startup hit four-figures in earnings. This was all achieved while also running the operations for my family's traditional business as my nine-to-five. Deciding to launch this endeavor was a multi-year process of procrastination, fear, and doubt.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Good sales leaders are always on the hunt to bring in new talent that can help a business grow. Still, they don’t always nail down the details when it comes to the things that might entice a prospective salesperson — like a well-rounded sales compensation plan , for example. To put it simply: because it’s complicated.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The new joint solution is improved by having the OEM technology embedded into its application, providing increased value to the end customer. The licensor enjoys a new revenue stream. The key defining factor is that the OEM software is embedded into an existing application or platform, and it sells as part of that application.

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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. 4) Which compensation structures do SaaS companies usually follow? But most SaaS startups don’t realize that.

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Stax

JULY 1, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise-level business, efficient payroll software is essential. Yet it isn’t always cost-effective to hire an in-house team to manage payroll, especially for businesses with a small headcount. It may be helpful to look for a payroll process that also includes year-end tax filing services.

Payment Solutions 88

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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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. Table of Contents. Try Baremetrics free.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Table of Contents. start free trial.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, less because people value my accounting knowledge [1] but rather because people are curious about the CAC impact of such deals and how to compensate sales on them. The question on my mind is how do I look at this from a new ARR bookings, ending ARR, CAC, and sales compensation perspective?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Doing so generally requires building in additional trust, workflow tools and, in some cases, a shift away from traditional commission based monetization models. To capture these transactions, B2B marketplaces need to build significantly more value into their platforms.

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Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The compensation given to an employee based on the amount of revenue they generate for your business is known as a commission structure. There are two types of revenue that a tiered commission structure may follow, marginal revenue, and retroactive revenue: Marginal. Retroactive. Analyze Data.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). In the world of tech startups, that sounds tiny, but the reality is, the vast majority of acquisitions are around that point (or lower). Though, at this point, everyone other than me will be staying on (with their same compensation as well).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. And when we look at the business world, we identified that there has not been any innovation in the past 20 years.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Analytics is the active study of different types of data with the aim of discovering meaningful patterns and translating these into insight (such as historical analyses and forecasts), or action (such as those intended to improve business performance). . AB Testing.

Scale 105

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business. Understanding Equity in SaaS The standard definition of equity is the compensation that represents ownership. This insurance arrangement is especially common in startups. Try Baremetrics Free.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some startups can get away with managing HR initiatives on their own in the beginning, but this quickly becomes unrealistic and cumbersome if or when you scale your business. As a cloud-based platform, Amplify PEO’s platform can be accessed from any computer or mobile device.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

Depending on size and stage, variable compensation can be one of a company’s highest expense items, and a thoughtful approach is key. We invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and you know we live and breathe enterprise tech, by how much we nerd out on sales completely, with all of our enterprise portfolio companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Compensation. CRM platforms. Products that will involve an ongoing commitment, payment, or could affect the future in a large way. In fact, you’ll likely bring in more revenue by letting the difficult customer go because you can make several other sales in the time you would have spent working with the one difficult one.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each year, Comparably releases a list of the best companies to work for—in regard to items like compensation, career-personal balance, perks, and happiest employees. Launching and monetizing new services drive greater individual account growth. They have rent payments. Zuora's SEI drop. And the findings were astronomical.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we interview Rob Lopez , SVP of Sales at Justworks , one of the fastest growing businesses focused on HR including payroll, benefits and the like. How you can use mindfulness as a strategy to deliver new revenue. They integrate into your CRM. The impact of culture on future growth.

Finance 69

Finance Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services 69

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the number one sales engagement platform. And that includes things like registration and payments, messaging, communications, and how they really lead their community in sports activities and programs. That means about 10 million people have registered through our platform. Go to go.regie.io.

Leadership 72

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. There is certainly a fear that with a product-led motion, you don’t have to pay sales compensation. See you there.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 8, 2020

In this challenging time, try to retain as much revenue as possible but more focus should be on retaining the customers. Can non-payments be a risk? Puneet said that there might be customers who want to use the platform but don’t have cash to pay as of now. Changing payments plans (annual, quarterly, monthly).

Retention 40

Retention SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 40

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

From sales & marketing alignment to SaaS salespeople compensation. If you are satisfied with your sales model and need to learn about employee compensation model, just skip the first article. Choose the right one for your SaaS startup. SaaS Sales team compensation . CHOOSE THE RIGHT ONE FOR YOUR SAAS STARTUP.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. They built themselves into a core platform for HR 2.0 Enterprise is maybe around 60% of our revenue, it’s not the whole deal.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

And so, I consult and advise for startups about 35 startups over the last three, three and a half years. So talking about hiring your first VP of Sales is obviously everybody knows the stat about what percentage of startups fail. What percentage of startups ultimately will not make it? Anybody want to share that?

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