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Our SaaS Start-up's Expenses, Equity Allocation, & Marketing Results After Three Years

Outseta

Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. Finally, we increased our marketing spend in 2019 by testing some paid advertising channels, attending MicroConf for the first time, and sponsoring Indie Hackers meetups. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

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Outseta Company Update - September 2018

Outseta

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users. Indie.VC - Indie.VC

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The New Rules of Indie Hacking Through A Recession

Outseta

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?