SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Director of Finance. VP Finance (13 Employees). Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions. So I think just opening your aperture when you’re thinking about marketplace, not assuming it’s just a small commercial SMB market sales.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

SMB capital access - In addition to consumers' feeling the tightening of the credit market, small and medium businesses suffered as local and regional banks' pursestrings contracted in tandem. An alternate form of loan, crowdfunding is being used for everything from financing vacations to hardware development.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. The first system is what I call the sales finance system. So, the first system is a sales finance system, so let’s start with sales.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Funding becomes more tight, which means that only the most impactful and disruptive opportunities get financed. This might not sound like the most exciting time to be an investor, but many of the world’s best companies, like Google, PayPal, and Facebook, were started under very similar conditions.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

High-quality companies will still be financed, if on less stratospheric terms. Structure generally means financing terms, such as multiple liquidation preferences or participation (definitions here ), that favor new investors over existing investors and the common stockholders in a liquidation. The structure pendulum: it’s back.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs. If you’re using PayPal, we recommend switching to another service like Payoneer. Subscriptions on PayPal are non-transferable, so you’d have to switch over to another service.

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