FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

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

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Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

SaaS Payments 150

SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 150

Incredo

OCTOBER 17, 2019

or “how long should I spend on developing my software ?”. To answer your questions correctly, we need to ask for clarification and more details about your software, its complexity and company goals. If you search on Google, Youtube or Quora, answers will tell you that 7%, 9%, 10% or more is the common approach.

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SaaS Payments Compensation Payment Services Sales Recruiting 144

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.

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SaaSHolic

JULY 31, 2023

TLDR: Probably when your company hits $5M+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Let’s dive into it: Pre-Revenue → You In the earliest days, successful founders need to be extremely efficient: drive as much productivity as possible with the few resources they have until they “hit something.” Keep it simple.

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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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Scale Payments Technical Advisors Sales Recruiting 103

FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. In September 2022, Dopple publicly launched its new platform. They Launched With a Platform, Not a Product Another big advantage?

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Marketing Payments SaaS Payments 140

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 147

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). MRR gives your company that forward looking measurement and predictive revenue to actually grow your business. You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” Think about that.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. Iterate on process the same way you iterate on product. If a process doesn’t stick, don’t hesitate to move from it. Rohini: Sometimes the word “process” gets a bad rap. Michelle: I find that, too.

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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 And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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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. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 17, 2022

How unfortunate is it to see a subscriber canceling their recurring payment! Product analytics is the process of evaluating how your customers or users engage with your product. This enables your product team to identify and track engagement data and optimize the product. which will help you in the revenue growth.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Richman’s former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Kellblog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Say you sign a three-year deal with a customer that ramps in payment structure: year 1 costs $1M, year 2 costs $2M, and year 3 costs $3M. the right for 1,000 people to use a SaaS service) – so the payment structure is purely financial in nature and not related to customer value. Payment structure. $1M. GAAP revenue. $1M.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Billing may not be one of the most exhilarating parts of your company, but it is one of the most important parts of your business…it is how you get paid. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? 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. What would be your definition?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 117

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. There are many factors in being a great CEO, one of them comes down to being transparent with your team during turbulence. How are churn and new revenue trending over time?

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. “So I can see: is there an ecosystem around what’s happening that I can maybe try to tie into with my marketing?”

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. Could we somehow get them to definitely sign up? Then you get them to your website.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Why does Dave believe 99% of companies die? *

Sales Hiring 137

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 137

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. 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.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

The “primary risk [during pre-startup] is the failure to design a business plan and strategy that will enable the company to become profitable as it makes sales and earns revenue. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Stax

MAY 21, 2024

If you’re selling law practice management systems to law firms, you’re definitely not alone. This trusty software manages the busy work often assigned to multiple employees. In this article, we will explain the benefits of implementing payment management systems into your software. But improvements go much deeper than that.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Software Review 88

User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. Let’s start with some definitions. Filled in after a sales call, but before the first customer payment. Distribute your survey using Typeform or Google Forms. Collect useful feedback.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Enter the platform company. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

Payments 145

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 145

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? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does one have to move to enterprise?

Scale 124

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. It allows you to maximize a new feature’s value with minimal effort because the feature is part of this system or platform. Brian: It’s a huge challenge to get teams to do this and to do it well.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Software Review 106

User Pilot

APRIL 8, 2021

The “customers” part of this definition is important, since this is what differentiates customer analytics software from tools like Google Analytics, which look at data from website visitors as opposed to customers. Microsurveys are a great way to collect user data because they keep your users on your platform. How big is your company?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Software 52

FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. But I’m not going to know if it ultimately resulted in revenue. The other is the testing technique of surveying your customers to find out how they talk about your product. “I

Payment Methods 178

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments 178

Outseta

MARCH 18, 2019

Wes Bush is a SaaS marketer who has quickly developed a reputation as “the free trial vs. freemium guy.” I caught up with Wes to talk about his free trial vs. freemium framework, our own customer acquisition process, and the start-up scene in Waterloo, Canada. When does it make sense to ask for payment information upfront?

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 40

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer. And if some of them are, let’s say not the current definition of ideal customer today, it’s because we haven’t told them.

Scale 131

Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 131

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Well, that’s enough to motivate yourself to start creating your first course using the best online course platforms. Come out of your comfort zone, choose the best online course platform, and create your course outline for people who are ready to learn something that you already know. Why Choose an Online Course Platform?

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions Marketplace as a Service 98