SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

Cloudinary VP of Developer Experience Sanjay Sarathy shares his journey to more than $100M and the lessons he learned along the way for building a PLG motion and an Enterprise sales motion. They didn’t initially envision being a large Enterprise sales organization. Let’s first start with how Cloudinary came to be. The takeaway?

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Stax

MARCH 15, 2024

Having and maintaining secure payment systems is integral for protecting yourself and your customers. Making sure there are secure payment technology policies and procedures within your company will guarantee the integrity of present and future transactions. Enter secure payment systems (SPS).

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Stax

MAY 30, 2024

TL;DR Understanding your target market is the first step to growing your FSM software business FSM software providers need to invest in product development and innovation to stay up-to-date with industry trends, forecast market needs, and respond with innovative solutions. Engage with the 5.17 Don’t forget to leverage testimonials.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Integrations? How does the provider protect against payment fraud? Is it the interface?

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Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

Innovative ISVs and SaaS companies know that one of the best ways to provide value to merchants—while improving your bottom line—is to provide integrated payments. For example, if you’re an invoicing software provider that lets SMBs manage their billing, then it makes sense to add payment processing tools to your platform.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Whether it’s creating better tools to write code and test code, better tools for customers to engage with reps, better tools for sales teams to engage with their prospects, all those things are happening inside of Bill. Alex: Immad has strong feelings about AI replacing engineers. GenAI comes in to make employees efficient.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations. It started with chatbots.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There are an infinite number of ways you can integrate FastSpring into your applications and systems in order to offload complexity and help drive success for your SaaS, software, video game, or digital product business. Of course, our support and sales engineering specialists are also able to help if you need assistance.

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FastSpring

MAY 14, 2024

How Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager can help your business, plus FastSpring integration. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Partnerships are driving more leads and sales than ever before, and this is only projected to grow. PartnerOps (or ChannelOps) is newer than sales and marketing ops , but it is important to driving growth in the age of the ecosystem. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Processing and remitting payments.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Now let’s discuss the benefits of using a SaaS subscription services billing platform in your SaaS company: 1.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2022

Payments still materially accelerating overall growth to 16%, and predicting revenue growth from payments and merchant solutions to more than double that of subscriptions and SaaS. Expecting a bit of a rebound later in the year, with more merchants joining the platform in 2H’22 than 1H’22. #4.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Whatever marketing strategy you choose, use Baremetrics to monitor your sales data. Baremetrics makes it easy to collect and visualize all of your sales data. Your SaaS company likely uses a CRM and/or payment processing software, and the data required to compute these core metrics can be all over the place.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking revenue on a spreadsheet is easy, but understanding the underlying factors influencing revenue growth rate is a different ball game. As you read on, you will learn: How to properly define revenue growth. Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Payment Processors. Payment Processing.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the below article, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about Thailand’s new VAT requirements for sales of digital products and services. Previously, this type of business was not required to register for VAT. Foreign e-services provider requirements What are Thailand’s VAT rates for E-Services?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Powered by a modern business messenger , it scales your ability to answer more questions from more customers without increasing headcount, budget, or hours logged. Future-proofing your support tech stack to meet both business objectives and the needs of modern customers starts with laying the right foundations. It includes: Live chat.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. By serving common business needs, horizontal SaaS platforms have a very wide target audience. What is Horizontal SaaS?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Who Is WorkOS and What Do They Have To Do With Enterprise Readiness WorkOS is a developer platform designed to make it really easy to become “Enterprise ready.” When you actually sell to the Enterprise customers, you need to go into their systems and integrate with whatever they’re using,” says Grinich. It’s not an option.

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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. Want to see more content like this?

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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 What success looks like for using both together.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2024

According to a survey of 2,270 affiliate marketers by Authority Hacker, the “average” affiliate marketer earns over $8,000 monthly, and 35 percent of respondents use social media platforms to sell.   When they do, the creator will earn a percentage of the profit of that sale. 

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. People build more products in sales, which spurs more innovation.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Release notes is our monthly highlight of our great features coming out on the FastSpring platform so you’ll be able to pick up and go with the latest features for your store. If you want to know more about FastSpring, reach out to our sales team for a demo , or try it yourself.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

A SaaS product enhances business efficiency with cost-effectiveness, scalability , maintenance-free operation, accessibility from anywhere, easy integration , and inclusive product design. HubSpot and Salesforce are both CRMs that offer customer analytics, survey tools, and extensive integrations.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. In this post, we're going to share where growth engineers come from and why they're here to stay.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2023

Payment processing. Payment reconciliation. Payment reminders. For example, many accounting software offer a way to collect payments, however, it’s typically only for United States payments, not international payments. sales tax and international VAT and GST. Global payment processing.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Having a CRM like Salesforce for membership management allows your company’s technical staff to focus on other, more productive aspects of business management like expanding the company’s clientele and revenue. This is why you can consider Salesforce to be the engine that various organizations use to develop their management systems.

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