Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. For established SaaS companies, the average churn is between 5% to 7% per year, early-stage startups should expect an average annual churn of 10% to 15%. Bad customer service. Poor onboarding.

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User Pilot

MAY 14, 2021

Growing numbers of SaaS companies are adding an onboarding survey to their customer sign-up flows. Those that do often gain insights into the needs of their customers, which ultimately translate into an improved product experience for users, higher activation and greater retention. What types of questions should SaaS include, and why?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2018

The next generation of messengers will be built to help businesses accelerate growth by actually helping teams do work, like process payments or schedule meetings. At Intercom, we decided to have our Demand Generation team look after Messenger on our website and our Product Marketing team look after Messenger inside our app.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments 176

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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Krish made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found one of India’s fastest growing SaaS companies in Chargebee?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. Jera Brown interviewed Dopple founder and CEO Justin on how he launched Dopple and found success by pivoting to a new market. It starts with self service. Justin Scott My pleasure.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Alice : Definitely pre-product market fit. Guillaume : Keep the mic.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We didn’t worry too much about are you trying to bill for your own SaaS product or are you actually trying to integrate Stripe to offer to your customers.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

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. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Dave make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How do they set up the process from there? How do they set up the process from there? *

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

So to illustrate this, I want to talk about getting deep product/market fit, and specifically one story of a founder that I admire by the name of Parker Conrad that he has told in the past. I realized that I was missing something fundamental in that first company that was deep product/market fit.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Which product analytics tools should you be using? And what type of analytics really matters for a product marketing manager? Some analytic tools are confusing, some are difficult to use, and some are downright irritating, making it hard to access the product growth insights you need. What are product analytics tools?

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Product Marketing Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 94

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Michael Bonfils is a marketer first, and a translator second. That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. An Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing. 00:01:00] Enjoy. Michael, thank you for joining.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 126

User Pilot

AUGUST 29, 2021

Amplitude Analytics is one of the most popular digital analytics tools for SaaS businesses. Amplitude is a Digital Optimization System used by the most highly valued brands and disruptive teams to better understand and personalize their digital products in order to maximize the business value of their product innovation.

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Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear 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. What questions must you ask?

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This guide will arm you with the three most important things to address with your executive team before committing to the Enterprise market. Related: The SaaS Executive’s Guide To Building A Winning Go-To Market Strategy. 2) Product Readiness – Do you have the essential Enterprise features? Bonus Takeaway.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payments Enterprise 58

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

To help you understand and improve your customer acquisition, we asked SaaS leaders within and outside of Intercom to reveal their top customer acquisition tactics. Before I joined Intercom, I led all of Intuit’s small-business products and services, including QuickBooks accounting, payroll and payments.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 103

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

First step, we have who has worked with a number of SAAS companies in New York City as a CFO, and is now CEO of Concert Finance, a sales commission platform. This is generally the first zero to $1 million in ARR, with the founder trying to find product market fit and getting those very first customers. Jessica Lin: Awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And let me tell you, it was definitely not at all cool at that time, but it inspired me to realize that there are some things that humans are particularly great at doing, and then there are things that we can automate in ways that make people’s lives better. We were definitely early. At the time, we were all based in Dublin.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Baremetrics

APRIL 20, 2020

It’s something every founder, marketer or anyone that works in SaaS can learn to do. If you’ve ever been curious about how to do cohort analysis (not just a definition of what it is) and how to use it to improve your business—without all the jargon—this one’s for you. What is Cohort Analysis? Here’s a quick overview of each.

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Churn Retention SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Best Product Analytics Tools for SaaS. How to Extract Insights from Product Analytics. Speaking of which: why not learn how to boost your feature adoption with our Product Adoption School? What is Product Analytics? Why is Product Analytics important? Product analytics is objective.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 65

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. The bar is definitely higher, but I don’t think that it has to be. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. The Definitive Guide to Customer Success 2020. The Definition of Customer Success.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. Aileen Lee: We’re definitely more [crosstalk 00:10:51]-.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

User Pilot

MAY 25, 2021

81% of businesses use video as a marketing tool. And why is the subject of microvideos an important one for SaaS businesses? Microvideo definition. SaaS businesses are increasingly using microvideos inside their knowledge base, to explain UI elements in-app, or to build brand awareness. Microvideo definition.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Education 52

Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. Sure adding sales & marketing help fuel the growth, but these business were growing pretty rapidly before they injected the sales & marketing rocket fuel. What is a Go To Market model? Product complexity. Factors to consider.

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Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 100

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2019

After finding funding and product/market fit, your next steps as a founder in the hypergrowth phase can determine the future of your company. How did you come to found MessageBird and really one of the fastest growing and most exciting opportunities in SaaS in Europe today? Then we couldn’t process the payments.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Scaling SaaS Payments 100

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Retention truly is the foundation of growth for software as a service (SaaS) companies, but oftentimes, it is overlooked and undervalued. High SaaS churn is a corollary of poor retention - but it can creep up unannounced, and rather than deal a single fatal blow, it causes death by a thousand small cuts.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million now Homeadvisor).

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Jeppe make his way into the world of startups and SaaS with his becoming CFO @ Tradeshift? So they have fairly simple processes, but they might be many people. So we target a very big market and we target any industry and in theory we can target any country. Loving our podcast content?

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