Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff: Yeah.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Userpilot is a digital adoption platform (DAP) with strong CRO tools to boost conversions like user behavior tracking, funnel analysis, and A/B testing. Hotjar is a popular heatmap and product insights tool that offers cross-platform heatmaps, rage clicks, and scroll maps. See our pricing or get a free Userpilot demo !

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? If you’re searching for one of these platforms, what qualities are important to you? After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

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User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

Looking for an effective event tracking tool and wondering if Heap is the best option for your SaaS company? In this article, we’ll delve into precisely that – helping you determine whether Heap is the ideal choice for your event tracking needs. Schedule a demo today to explore its powerful event tracking capabilities firsthand.

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

Ok it’s time to grab your spot at the top sessions for SaaStr Money 2021 on July 14: The line-up of workshops and small sessions is incredible, and it’s FREE as part of our last Mega Digital Event before 2021 Annual. Investor Insights for Scaling from Seed to Growth Stage with Sage Intacct. Sign up here now!!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

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User Pilot

MAY 9, 2024

While Amplitude is a comprehensive behavioral analytics platform loved by many product teams, it does have some limitations that may be a dealbreaker for some companies. Amplitude comes with the following features : In-app events, cohorts & audiences, experimentation, and pathfinder. Let’s dive right in!

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow. Creators market their events to bring in new ticket buyers.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. In just the last year, Twilio saw revenue jump 57 percent year over year as customer accounts rose 23 percent. How AWS Does It.

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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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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2024

Strong growth, break-even margins, and very high quality revenue. Procore is still growing its customer count by a healthy 10% a year at scale. Just Starting to Get into Payments, Working Capital and Insurance / Fintech Procore is just starting to get into payments and fintech … at $1 Billion in ARR.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Documentation guides can be tricky so here’s an article on everything you need to know about Userpilot integrations and how you can build better user experiences by sending data from Userpilot to your other apps. We cover how our one-click integrations work, how to set them up, and which apps Userpilot integrates with.

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Payments Technical Review SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 93

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon Associates is one of the most trusted affiliate marketing platforms where anyone can start an income stream from the comfort of their home. Once you get the hang of the basics, however, it’s relatively easy to monetize your content. Here is how to get started and drive revenue with Amazon Associates.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Handling failed payments and customer notifications. Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. The second factor to consider is whether or not the solution was built for your type of business.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. I have written more about platforms here.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Without further adieu, here’s who is hiring a new VP of Sales in January: Spidertech , a SaaS platform serving law enforcement professionals, is looking for a candidate with B2B enterprise experience with a specific focus selling to government entities or public sectors. Yes, Your VP of Sales Also Has to Be a Great Salesperson Herself.

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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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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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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

No-code development platforms: Webflow – best no-code app builder for landing pages and websites. No-code SaaS tools for user onboarding and adoption: Userpilot – best user adoption platform for SaaS apps. Pendo – the best no-code onboarding platform for mobile apps. Business — $39/month.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

If Momentive / SurveyMonkey had stayed 100% self-serve and low end, it likely wouldn’t be growing much at all, with self-serve revenue now only growing 7%. Far forward to today, 1/3 of its revenue is sales-driven, but it’s the core growth driver, up 35%. #2. It’s not always best to force annual payments.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

FastSpring is a Super Gold sponsor of this year’s SaaStr event. Here’s why we’re attending SaaStr — and what you can expect from us at the event. You can get a 20% event discount by pre-registering to visit our booth ahead of the show. We also believe we process more SaaS revenue than these big-talk competitors.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 14, 2022

The revenue gained from a fixed pricing model is easy for finance teams to recognize; however, you could easily overcharge or undercharge your customers based on their product usage. Usage-Based/Metered Pricing: Usage-based pricing aligns monetization with how customers actually consume your products and services.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Preserving optionality.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 18, 2020

Both Facebook and Google refer to these user interactions as Events. What Are Events ? Events are user interactions that don’t involve loading another page on your website. In e-commerce, the prime example of an event is Add to Cart. Why Events Are Important. How to Set Up Events on Your Website.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When selecting a funnel tool, look for customization, integrations, segmentations , and dashboard options. Here are the best funnel-tracking tools to explore: Userpilot is a product growth platform that gives you granular insights into your funnels with heatmaps, custom events, product usage tracking, and more.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 8, 2022

Facebook and Slack used to be the best community platforms for online businesses: they are free, everyone is using them, and they are easy to use. However, new online community platforms emerged to offer better interface, more customization opportunities, and the chance to create your own mini social network.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2021

They are at 2,000 customers, a stunning 40% revenue and 46% billings growth, at $700m in ARR. We’ve been fortunate enough to feature CEO Rob Berynstyn at many SaaStr events over the years. Coupa plans the majority of its customers to be running payments through their platform in 10 years. 5 Interesting Learnings: 1.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 16, 2018

How do you measure mobile app monetization in the context of subscription revenue? Historically, mobile app monetization has largely been about scaling and optimizing ad revenue from in-app purchases (IAP). Today, publishers have a lot more choice when it comes to picking a monetization strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform.

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