Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR.

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Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. Recover payments and reduce churn ? Stripe, the payment processing platform, has a new chief financial officer, Dhivya Suryadevara. She comes from General Motors where she served as the first female finance chief.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior? I’ll talk about the topic of fundraising during a pandemic.

Development Team Review 157

Development Team Review Software Review Management SaaS Payments 157

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Click Ventures. Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. SAIF Partners.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. Did they come through a paid channel?

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed. This is the US Venture Capital Market.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 195

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. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. ChurnZero secured $7 million in a Series A funding round in 2019 led by Baird Capital and supported by returning investors like Grotech Ventures.

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Why did some survive and some others did not?

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Why did some survive and some others did not?

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52