Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. Businesses grow money for a variety of reasons. By selling shares, a business essentially sells its ownership in exchange for cash. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial , and start monitoring your subscription revenue accurately and easily.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

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.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2024

Adding another $5m, $10m, heck sometimes $50m into a startup via SAFEs to either punt on valuation issues or to extent runway can seem like a simple solution. Non-Dilutive Financing and Venture Debt Do Have Their Place, But They Have Their Risks, Too. That’s a great use of revenue financing and venture debt.

Finance 228

Finance Payment Solutions Payments Pricing 228

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Thankfully, with mobile payments from Stax , you can quickly accept and process payments from your customers. Learn all about mobile payments and why you may want to consider joining the Stax family to streamline payments and boost your small business’ productivity.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Mobile Payments Payment Services 88

Stax

MAY 2, 2024

Small business loans exist to allow business owners to prop up their businesses in the short term and cover temporary cash flow gaps. Is this financing option worth considering? Your future revenue acts as a guarantee. But this flexibility comes at a cost- MCAs are an expensive financing option.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 88

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The pre-revenue startup phase has a host of stresses that hopefully disappear as the company begins to earn revenue. Depending on the amount invested, it is possible that all members of the team are working full time jobs to support themselves and then doing that again to push their startup onto the market.

Payments 110

Payments Revenue Startup Development Team Review 110

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What are the best options for financing based on the stage of the company? What are the best options for financing based on the stage of the company? We speak about current drivers and tendencies in funding and fundraising, revenue-based financing, and the metrics that distinguish the fastest-growing companies.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Retention 52

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. The payback period metric doesn’t capture the difference in the quality of the revenue/cash collections.

Sales Hiring 333

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Payment Solutions 333

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education. These platforms provide functionalities that a diverse user base benefits from, such as project management, social media, automated workflows, or customer relationship management (CRM). What is Horizontal SaaS?

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2024

Why BluIQ by BluLogix Should Be Your Top Choice for Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team In the previous installment of our series on selecting a subscription billing platform , we discussed the importance of choosing the right platform and outlined key considerations for your evaluation. Say goodbye to manual subscription renewals.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Payments Payment Services Subscription 52

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Bookkeeping, accounting, and finance management are all critical to the financial success of your business. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Controller, CFO, and finance What is a controller? What is finance?

Finance 98

Finance Payment Services Payment Features Forecasting 98

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

If you’ve drawn on a line from your venture debt facility, money has been wired to your business banking account. Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. What happens now? We’d like to wrap up by focusing on how to manage debt post-closing.

Payment Services 92

Payment Services Payment Solutions Development Team Review Outsourcing Services 92

Baremetrics

APRIL 1, 2021

When choosing a payments processor, businesses have a lot of goals in mind. So, when it comes to comparing platforms, major players like Stripe and Shopify Payments are likely to top your list. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

Payment Methods 98

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 98

SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. Now is the perfect time to find your destined VP of Sales position, even if you’re still in the Bay Area.

Sales Hiring 325

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Payments 325

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making regarding financing deals, from revenue-based financing (RBF) to term loans and lines of credit. What should VCs make of revenue-based financing?

Venture Capital 61

Venture Capital Finance Payments Revenue 61

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The success of your business can be greatly impacted by your choice of payment processing model in the dynamic world of eCommerce and online business. To simplify the intricacies of payment processing, two well-known solutions have surfaced: Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) and Merchants of Record (MoRs).

Merchant Services 59

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Facilitation Payfac 59

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

But those three things are what got Starbucks its first profitable coffee shop in Seattle, not what allowed that shop to morph into an $80 billion business with 30,000 cafes around the world. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. That kind of growth? Salesforce?

Payments 186

Payments Scale Revenue SaaS Payments 186

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF). Higher revenue growth = Higher IRR for us.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It comprises outlining costs, accounting for taxes, monitoring payments, and contacting unpaid clients. It takes a lot of time, and this is probably not why you started your business in the first place. You can create client profiles, include payment methods, add costs, and even add your logo to invoices with a few clicks.

Payment Solutions 92

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments 92

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. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost. Koester warned us that standalone solutions, without being integrated into the existing workflow, often go unused.

Healthcare 113

Healthcare AI Payments Enterprise 113

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.

Payments 100

Payments Pricing Compensation SaaS Payments 100

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2024

TL;DR Xero and Quickbooks are two of the most popular cloud-based accounting platforms. In reality, neither platform is necessarily better than the other. The stand-out platform will reveal itself only when assessed against your business needs. Integrations Xero can integrate with over 1,000 third-party platforms.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Features Software Review 88

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? Micro startup acquisitions. And the investors?

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Baremetrics

AUGUST 28, 2021

As a business owner, you measure your incoming profits and revenue with several metrics. Some of the common metrics for this include net income, gross revenue, and net revenue. But what are the differences among these measurements, and which is the best measurement to tell you the financial health of your business?

Payments 90

Payments Revenue Payment Services SaaS Payments 90

Buffer Resources

JULY 11, 2023

Five months after launching was the first time my creator startup hit four-figures in earnings. This was all achieved while also running the operations for my family's traditional business as my nine-to-five. Deciding to launch this endeavor was a multi-year process of procrastination, fear, and doubt.

Payments 67

Payments Social Media Systems Review AI Search 67

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF). Higher revenue growth = Higher IRR for us.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

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.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sacks suggests thinking of every major platform shift as a pond. Before AI came on the scene, it was roughly a dozen years before a really big platform shift — Cloud and mobile were big, but it was time for something new to come along to reset and restock the pond with new opportunities. One of the questions all VCs ask is, “Why now?”

SaaS Payments 220

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions AI SaaS 220

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. UXPin is a code-based design tool that simplifies and unifies product development process by bringing code components to the design stage. This allows their team to focus on product, sales, and growth.

Payment Services 98

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions 98

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. With their newsletter, podcast, guides and cheat sheets, ChartMogul have taken an open-book approach to scaling their business, sharing everything they’ve learned with the customers who are growing alongside them.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

–Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. COVID has challenged so many businesses to adopt SaaS and also drastically changed the sales process.

SaaS Payments 96

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 96

Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” The recurring revenue (subscription) model is usually “opposed” to the transactional or pay-as-you-go model.

Payment Features 184

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 184

How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

The initial concern of every ambitious entrepreneur is to keep their startup costs as low as possible. Although there are several unavoidable costs an online business has to pay for, you can minimize some operational costs with the assistance of the best tools. What if you can get your hands on the best tools for startups?

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Payments 52

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

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Because word-of-mouth for us is actually much bigger fuel than the revenue that we’re collecting or churning or dropping or whatever.”.

Benchmarks 123

Benchmarks Churn Payments SaaS Payments 123

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52