SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Emerging Insurance Disruptors: Are they Really SaaS? The financial services industry – banking, lending, insurance – has long benefited from deep competitive moats that limited competition and stifled innovation. Now with digital finance, innovation is occurring at lightning speed. with Notion Capital.

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Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. TL;DR A billing platform is a comprehensive system facilitating subscription management, recurring billing, revenue recognition, payment gateways, analytics, and dunning processes.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founders : William Tien.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. Founded: 2001.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 1, 2024

A merchant of record for digital products is the legal body permitted to handle client payments for digital goods and services as companies negotiate the intricacies of online commerce. Read more: Optimizing Cross-border Trade: Merchant of Record for SaaS Companies What are the digital products you may need a merchant of record for?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2012.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Why at that time?

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Since its introduction, the SaaS business model has grown in popularity and transformed many industries. Why are SaaS software adoption rates among businesses so high? These features make it easier for SaaS users to scale their businesses as they expand and help them run more productive businesses.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. This presents a significant challenge to Fintech SaaS founders. Our latest Fintech SaaS series intends to find out. Gone are the days of the free-money era.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Funding Your Startup. How To Evaluate Funding Options.

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FastSpring

JULY 12, 2019

Since most SaaS and subscription-based businesses depend on recurring payments to sustain themselves, it can pay dividends to keep a close eye on lifetime value and customer retention rates. It’s commonly accepted that SaaS companies spend anywhere from five to seven times more in acquiring a new customer.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing , when it comes to finding the billing history for Stripe customers, things are needlessly complicated. Stripe is a fully integrated suite of payment products.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 98

All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021. Even though it is not a bank, Curve is a service that is built on an e-money background. It provides unique services, which allows the user to be able to operate all of their cards with one digital wallet. Curve gives you a 30-day period to move past payments between cards.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Funding to date: $234M.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement. Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stripe is indispensable for the average online business, providing the many different tools, reports, and customizations that power online payment processing, but it isn’t without limitations. For example, the Stripe analytics dashboard is lacking the needed depth for SaaS businesses that rely on recurring revenue.

Payment Services 97

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 97

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. Anyone who searches for keywords related to your field should immediately come across your service. Integrating innovative software that can cull MRR values from CRM and payment processing systems is a valuable shortcut.

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Think Strategies

MARCH 27, 2018

Cloud Service Intelligently Streamlines the Accounts Payable (AP) Workflow Process. THINKstrategies announced today that Yooz has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Assets are all the things of value possessed by the company, whether financed by liabilities or equity. In the case of a SaaS business, your most valuable assets are the contracts you have with your clients and the platform they use. How are balance sheets unique for SaaS? Many SaaS businesses have zero inventory.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 18, 2021

Invoicing is a sales process where a seller issues a commercial document to a buyer requesting payment. This document shows all products and services rendered, the payment owed, and the contact details of both the buyer and the seller. Invoicing can be done for both recurring and one-time payments.

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Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 83

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. In this blog, we're going to dive into how to strengthen the Fintech SaaS cyber security frameworks. But Andy says Fintech SaaS is hitting a big challenge: mixing innovation with tight security. Keen to get started?

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Payments Data Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

a problem we’ve been wanting to solve for a while Payroll, the process of compensating your employees for their work, continues to be a complex and convoluted process for companies of all sizes. Payroll is a mission-critical process inside organizations but at its core, it’s essentially a data problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. According to CB Insights, 70% of tech companies can expect to fail – usually within just 20 months of their first financing round. But, still, it’s not impossible. Among the leading causes of death?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. Fortunate to have a really great set of investors and the process was going quite well. Zach : Yeah.

Payments 146

Payments SaaS Payments Banking Underperforming Technical Team 146

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Now, we use bootstrapping to describe the not quite impossible task of building your business without financing. If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping. What does bootstrapping look like for SaaS?

Business 96

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Because sales cycles can be long and complicated, entrepreneurs are most secure when they can find a champion who will keep the process moving through hiccups and obstacles.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Rob has a background in finance, but jumped into the startup world first at Groupon, where he was the GM for their Latin American division, before moving to New York to become the first sales hire for Justworks. The benefits of a career in finance on evaluating companies. How did you go from finance to leading a startup sales team?

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Finance Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services 59

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As a subscription-based SaaS enterprise, you need to be aware of these rules and follow them. In addition, we will discuss the implications for SaaS businesses, why the rules were changed, and the meaning of revenue recognition in general. By following ASC 606, all SaaS businesses will count their revenue based on the same benchmarks.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, these are the core processes to any successful business, and a failure to keep up with bookkeeping and accounting tasks means trouble—and not just with the tax authorities. Accounting is the process of recording and reporting the financial information of your company. Table of Contents. What are the functions of accounting?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. *

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 130

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Reese—whose career has spanned wealth management, financial services, payments, and fintech—said he viewed the CFO role as being “the champion of value creation.” And that’s something that I lead here and how I think about the role we play in finance and how it is so intersected with data and technology teams.”.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. The innovation and ability to push a startup idea into production mean the team has skills and knowledge that is invaluable to an established company. Key Features. 30-day closing period. No middlemen.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed. They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. The problem in private markets is private markets don’t adjust their pricing because it takes time until financing’s actually happen.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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