FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 118

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. What is RBF?

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

SaaS enables customers to trade the large capital expenditures associated with traditional enterprise software for smaller operating expenses: a lower cost of entry, and minimal IT infrastructure to manage. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue. However, that benefit comes with risks.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Today, we're pushing for discounted plans, adopting more flexible payment terms, and turning your product into a marketing channel. Our friend Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView —the expansion stage venture capital firm—says it’s time to revisit your pricing. Pricing, let's talk. ProfitWell featured user.

Payments 59

Payments Technical Review Scale Venture Capital 59

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. What is RBF?

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn 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. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founded : 2013. TradeGecko.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. That’s true: Elements such as a global business focus and experienced professional moderators (that’s me!) That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 124

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

How to show different revenue streams in vertical SaaS A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Jobber announced (besides a $100M Series D) that its 200,000 customers — small businesses that provide home services like lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, and painting — have earned $13 billion in revenue in 2022.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. Buffer spent $3.3 Reilly Chase of HostiFi.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

Our data shows an uptick in 2023, possibly a … What can be said about growth in the SaaS marketplace in 2023? New business is the slowest it’s been in years. Our data shows an uptick in 2023, possibly a light at the end of a long slow-growth tunnel. Renewal, payment, happy days. It’s unique.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

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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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Beginning Stage: At the start, you’ll either not have any revenue or far less revenue than is sustainable. Customer-Funded Stage: At some point, your revenue stream will get to the point where customers can finally fund the day-to-day operations of the business. Focus as much as possible on your burgeoning revenue stream.

Business 96

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

ProfitWell

JULY 7, 2020

You're wasting revenue by fixing it. Listen wherever you get podcasts: The silent killer of your subscription business. So, let’s walk through the top three hidden areas of churn you might not be thinking about: failed credit card payments, lack of annual contracts and not utilizing value metrics. Failed credit card payments.

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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Venture Capital 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. They either work to manage things via spreadsheets, attempt to build their own, or try using a product management platform for this despite the poor fit.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Typically founders will pay 3%-7% of monthly revenue until they have repaid the fund 3x the amount invested.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Let’s take a look how upgrades/new revenue are doing: The MRR Gain Index is up 1.5% We’re seeing new revenue coming in and less customers churning.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) Sales Process Engagement.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

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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Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 40

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

But since there are so many to choose from—we’re talking Nuuly, Haverdash, Stitch Fix, the list goes on—RTR is looking to a new membership option to convince shoppers to get on board with its platform over others. We’ve dug into the data here to find that simplicity in pricing doesn’t always win. And this may be a good move for them.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Venture Capital 52

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

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

Technical Review 192

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 192

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. Now, what does the data tell us, are there any (or many?)

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. This can sometimes be underestimated by thousands but you should not be scared to make the first steps.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

However, even if you’re working with outsourcing services, HR and Finance teams still have to juggle multiple spreadsheets where they reconcile data from various systems (HR, accounting, ERP, etc.), Payroll is a mission-critical process inside organizations but at its core, it’s essentially a data problem.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin: I made up a number just based on a very limited data set. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 164

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue. Jason Lemkin: I made up a number just based on a very limited data set. And it’s kind of like MuleSoft for warehouse robotics for integrating.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question, as the right timing depends on a couple of factors, including how much capital you’ve raised, how fast you’re growing, and if one of the founders has prior experience with or a talent for financials. From my own experience of joining the finance department of a startup in year 10 with ca.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Now before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. Now, what does the data tell us, are there any (or many?)

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. They defined what data insights is. When you’re raising your Series B, you have meaningful revenue. We started the fund last year, actually.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . This makes sense for some services vital to a consumer, like payment processing to an online merchant.

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