The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

Payments 100

Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??) Look for tools that can scale with you.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

If all your customers sign up online and accept your terms & conditions, you don’t need this role. The great thing about a contract manager is that if you hire the right person, this role can also act as an internal project manager doing some legwork on security assessments. ” or “Can I wire payment?”

Sales Recruiting 64

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. There’s a link here.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

It’s especially great if you get payment up front and then know that customer is profitable from that point on. . We had one of our portfolio companies with 60% of their headcount reporting up through CS, and that’s how they focused and was the culture of the business. You of course would rather buy from your CS person.

Retention 61

Retention Payment Methods SaaS Payments Outsourced Development 61