Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway.

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

Payment gateways you’ve likely encountered include PayPal , Stripe , and Amazon Pay. you’ll need some great engineers and a lot of time) Still needs to interact with 3rd-party systems along the way, for card authorization, etc. There are almost no payment gateways that support every country (except for PayPal), so do your research!

Payment Solutions 90

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 90

OpenView Labs

APRIL 11, 2019

The team developed a digital community playbook and created a viral growth engine focused on maximizing lifetime value & minimizing cost per acquisition. To build an effective and efficient growth engine , I start a foundational framework to assess and prioritize growth opportunities. Take PayPal and eBay.

Strategy 64

Strategy Payment Solutions PayPal Underperforming Technical Team 64

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The platform can handle payment methods such as credit cards, ACH Direct Debit, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and more—plus offline payments such as bank transfers and checks. Chargebee has made this super easy to do, taking weeks of wasted engineering time down to just a few days to integrate.” percent of overage revenue.

Payment Services 59

Payment Services Payment Methods Technical Review Payment Features 59

Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

Payment gateways you’ve likely encountered include PayPal , Stripe , and Amazon Pay. you’ll need some great engineers and a lot of time) Still needs to interact with 3rd-party systems along the way, for card authorization, etc. There are almost no payment gateways that support every country (except for PayPal), so do your research!

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Features SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It turned out that the virality was a tremendous lead gen engine, and we never had to spend a dime on marketing, but then it really took a salesperson to get the sale over the top. I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.

Scale 353

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 353

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 233

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 233

Point Nine Land

MAY 6, 2019

It’s an experiment game : most of the time, these companies have a growth engineer whose sole job is to run experiments to prove causation between a small change in the product and the k-factor. In the beginning, focusing on only one metric (activation, exposure or conversion) is good practice.

SaaS 73

SaaS Scale Acquisition PayPal 73

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Rather than the CEO running around telling the engineers exactly what to build, you now have product managers. First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

Startup 277

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 277

BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

Figure 4 – Not a real Paypal email. We’d then do a phishing campaign, collect metrics, and present on our findings. Finding vulnerabilities here goes a long way in establishing credibility and rapport with engineering departments, and there’s the obvious benefit of finding vulnerabilities before they go out. End result.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review DevOps as a Service Scale 40

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 193

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 193

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

And we know how important it is for you to be able to track your metrics on the move. They also have a VC feature that lets you track metrics for multiple ChartMogul accounts at once. Exclusion of transaction fees from metrics — added the ability to exclude transaction fees from your MRR and cash flow calculations.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So the first product we launched had an integration with PayPal that made it very easy for the event organizers to get all their ticket sales directly into their PayPal account as they were happening in real time. That’s the one key metric we use. I think that you’ve heard that before.

Payments 120

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Important SaaS Metrics and Unit Economics Unit economics and SaaS metrics like churn rate will always be important. But when valuing a business, it’s important not to get too hung up on any single metric. Focusing on improving a single metric too much might not make a significant difference to your business’s valuation.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

VS. FastSpring $ Tax software for adding sales tax to website purchases $ Software engineers for creating software that adds foreign consumption tax to invoices and checkout $ Tax law specialists for calculating and remitting foreign consumption tax (e.g., Payment processing for U.S. Managing B2B transactions. Balancing transactions.

Payment Solutions 78

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services 78

FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A metric that has been growing in use, along with the emergence of Internet companies and web-based advertising campaigns that can be tracked. Search engine listings that are shown based on their relevance to a query, as opposed to paid-search results that are shown because a site owner paid for an ad or paid to be featured.

Payment Methods 65

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Outsourcing Services 65

Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Bing: Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, displays results in response to a user’s search query. Canonicalization helps to manage which of those URLs search engines index and credit. Canonical URL: The canonical meta tag that directs search engines to index the preferred URL for site content that is available from multiple URLs.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 40

User Pilot

JUNE 4, 2021

If you get your new user onboarding wrong, it’ll create a domino effect on all your product metrics: Product time to value goes up ; When your time to value goes up, fewer users are activated which means new user activation drops. Do you care about your metrics? First-week retention drops. …Leading to a low LTV:CAC ratio.

Software Review 98

Software Review Software SaaS Onboarding 98

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Formerly backseat metrics like ARR/FTE, free cashflow (FCF) margin, R40 score, and gross dollar retention (GDR) come to the front seat joining net dollar retention (NDR) and ARR growth. I disclaim that I am not a Musk fanboy and that, in general, I am disappointed by the PayPal mafia , which I once saw as so full of promise.

Software Review 119

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 119

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And it’s also a company that employees 50,000 software engineers. We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. Bill Clerico : It’s just a really big place. And so it’s a company that makes huge investments in technology.

Payment Services 136

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 136

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Wil Reynolds founded Seer interactive, which got its start as a search engine optimization company. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business.

Content Marketing 134

Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

And those of you who know Reid Hoffman from PayPal days and co-founder of LinkedIn, he has this great podcast series called Masters of Scale. And I would … There’s a sub lesson here for me; is that we started out this part of our journey by trying to define and aggregate customer health metric.

Scale 174

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 174

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. I'm an engineer that's a free agent" or whatever. Build a website with a photo and then add a PayPal button, but then make it where the PayPal button can only take $5 max. Introverted engineer's guide for public speaking. That's how things worked back then.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 140

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

I was an engineer. I was working as an engineer. I'm an engineer that's a free agent" or whatever. Build a website with a photo and then add a PayPal button, but then make it where the PayPal button can only take $5 max. Introverted engineer's guide for public speaking. That's how things worked back then.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Software Review Technical Review Payment Solutions 40