Predictable Revenue
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Companies think early sales is the same as product-market fit. But that comes when clients stay, expand, or refer others. The post The Product-Market Fit Journey with Zach Barney appeared first on Predictable Revenue.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
What does it take to build and scale a vertical SaaS giant over two decades? According to Tooey Courtemanche, CEO and Founder of Procore, its about focus, perseverance, and a relentless commitment to customer success. In a recent conversation with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin, Tooey shared insights into his 23-year journey as CEO of Procore , the leading SaaS platform for construction management.
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The Daily Egg
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
These days, a lead magnet should be shareable on social media, easy to consume on mobile devices, and compelling enough to stand out in search. The post The Lead Magnet Is EvolvingHeres 16 Fresh Ideas appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Web3 is putting up real revenue numbers. Over the last 30 days, the top 20 public Web3 projects generated $1.2B in revenue. This isn’t some theoretical valuation metric. This is hard revenue, derived from trading and other financial fees. And it tells a compelling story. A power law is clearly at play. While we might expect this in a nascent market, the sheer scale is impressive.
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USIO
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Efficient and reliable payment systems play a crucial role in maintaining vendor relationships, the backbone of every successful business. Digital disbursements have emerged as a powerful tool, not only streamlining payment processes but also fostering trust and collaboration between companies and their vendors. Simplifying Payments with Digital Disbursements The manual payment process is often riddled with inefficienciesdelays, errors, and high processing costs can create friction in vendor rel
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Payrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? Do you find yourself listening to industry leaders and colleagues use terms like PayFac, PCI DSS, and tokenization and casually scratching your head in confusion? Youve come to the right place. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.
The Moz Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Discover proven strategies for strengthening your brand's authority in 9 easy steps. From product excellence (featuring Tony's Chocolonely) to customer service mastery (like Amazon), learn how successful brands maintain their edge. This guide covers essential elements, including brand identity, omnichannel content strategy, customer advocacy, and adaptable marketing approaches.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
More operators behind fast-growing SaaS companies are turning to angel investing - not just as a way to diversify but to actively support the companies they believe in.This is core to GTMfunds thesis: providing investment access and opportunity to operators. Similarly, this session is about access - through shared insights from those whove been there.In this digital live event, seasoned operator-investors and full-time venture capitalists will share how they got started, how they source and eval
FastSpring
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
If you’re running a smaller digital business, you may find it challenging to hire great talent. Larger technology companies can pay more, offer more benefits, and provide a more marketable brand on a candidate’s resume. So how are smaller companies supposed to compete with large brands for the best talent? In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most e
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. They dance between asking for too little, leaving money on the table, and asking for too much, only to lose the customer’s interest. The very best companies lead their customers in that dance. They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
50 cents of compute for 500 dollars of value — Sam Altman (@sama) February 3, 2025 So just how much will AI remake classic B2B software? We are still learning. On the one hand, new AI-first entrants are rocketing to $10m ARR in a year. On the other hand, the classic leaders in SaaS have rebounded from 2024 lows both in terms of growth and market caps.
USIO
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Becoming your own Payment Facilitator (PayFac) sounds greatuntil you realize its a regulatory nightmare , a financial black hole , and takes longer than your last DIY home improvement project (which, lets be honest, is still unfinished). Fortunately, PayFac-as-a-Service (PFaaS) exists to save you from the $1M+ upfront cost, 12+ months of setup time, and the headaches that come with managing payments, compliance, and risk.
Payrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
What is a master merchant? A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. The master merchant holds the master contract with an acquirer and can offer subcontracts to online merchants and content providers, allowing them to offer credit card and other payments through their online stores and experiences.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
Clouded Judgement
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now “Grouping + AI” for Triage One area I’m quite excited to see AI revolutionize is “grouping + triage” workflows. There are so many of these workflows out there today, and many of them are quite manual.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
SaaS pricing isn’t static – it’s a living strategy that grows with your company. In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Each growth stage demands its own pricing approach, and getting it right can mean the difference between stagnation and explosive growth.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
During a recent Theory Office Hours with Kady Srinivasan CMO at Lightspeed Commerce, Dropbox, and Klaviyo, we discussed several powerful insights emerged on how early-stage companies should approach marketing. Here are the highlights : Define Your ICP Before Anything Else The most fundamental decision for any startup is determining your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP).
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Meet Wyatt Jenkins: From Construction Sites to Chief Product Officer If you want to understand how vertical SaaS companies scale to $1B+ in revenue while staying true to their customers, there’s no better person to learn from than Wyatt Jenkins, Chief Product Officer at Procore Technologies. Wyatt’s journey is uniquely suited to leading product at a construction technology company.
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
USIO
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
An efficient, flexible, and scalable payment ecosystem can drive growth, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are at the heart of this transformation, enabling businesses to create customized payment workflows that meet the unique demands of their operations. The Role of APIs in Modern Payment Systems APIs act as bridges between different software systems, allowing them to communicate and share data seamlessly.
Payrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
What are integrated payments? Integrated payments are payment processing capabilities that are incorporated into a software companys platform to provide their user base with the ability to accept and manage payments for their businesses. The setup connects payment processing with a point-of-sale (POS) system software that can sync with other business-critical systems and streamline processes.
The Daily Egg
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Hyperlinks links are blue because in the early days of the internet, web browsers used blue as a default color. Blue was chosen for the. The post Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? The Short Story appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Last year was Buffer’s first profitable year after two years of losses. This turnaround has been a huge accomplishment for our team. Given our focus on long-term sustainability and growing through revenue from customers rather than funding, it was a symbolic achievement in service of the path we’ve chosen. We closed 2024 with a net profit of $202,459.
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A failed payment isn't just a lost transaction - it could mean a customer churning for good. But not all payment declines are the same. For SaaS businesses, decline reasons vary, shaped by customer demographics and the nature of your service. Understanding your decline reason make up can be a game changer when it comes to improving retention and revenue.
The Moz Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Join Peter Richman from Plug and Play as he tackles a common marketing dilemma: should you maintain multiple domains or consolidate them? Learn the key factors affecting this decision, including SEO impact, resource management, and audience targeting. Discover why larger websites often have greater pull for attracting links and traffic, and when maintaining separate domains might make strategic sense.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Every great hire starts before their first day And often even during the interview process — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 12, 2025 #1. The Best VPs Start Before They Start The best sales leaders start reaching out to a few great customers they already know. The best marketers are already building out a spreadsheet to increase pipeline and show it to you for feedback.
FastSpring
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Cart abandonment is a significant challenge for online businesses, with many potential customers leaving their carts without completing their purchases. Fortunately, FastSpring offers tools and integrations to help you track and recover abandoned carts, ultimately boosting your conversion rates. Below is a step-by-step guide to using FastSpring to address cart abandonment effectively.
Payrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
What is a payment processor? A payment processor facilitates the flow of transactions typically made with credit cards, debit cards, and other digital payments. To operate as an integrated software vendor (ISV) or payment facilitator, a software company requires a relationship with an acquiring bank and a payment processor. The processor is responsible for processing and settling the transactions initiated by the payment facilitators merchants, but they can also offer so much more.
Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll
Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng
The Daily Egg
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
This conversion optimization rate (CRO) checklist is designed to help absolutely anyone audit their site and make the most out of their traffic. I did. The post Copy Our Proven Conversion Rate Optimization Checklist appeared first on The Daily Egg.
Buffer Resources
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
As a consultant, having a flow of high-quality clients is a must for steady, sustainable business growth (and making the rent every month). Thankfully, LinkedIn can make this a whole lot easier. While many lead generation channels need constant investment in ads or sales (things that solo consultants often don’t have the budget for), LinkedIn offers a way to bring new clients to you.
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
A decade ago, most startup pitches ended with a calculation justifying the amount they sought to raise. In other words, the raise was an output of the financial model. But for the most sought after companies, the raise amount is disjointed from the capital needs of the business - instead it’s driven by the fundraising auction. Great fundraisers are the teams that build the most auction pressure.
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