SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Finding the perfect VP of Sales position can be daunting, especially in the middle of a global pandemic. Candidates need to find opportunities that not only fit their sales experience and stretch goals, but also companies that are coming out of the pandemic with momentum. Who is looking to hire a VP of Sales in January / Q1?

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’re here to tell you that all revenue is good revenue. But there are nuances that you need to know when operating your SaaS business when it comes to revenue. Those nuances come into play when understanding the different types of revenue in your SaaS business. What is Revenue? Types of Revenue 1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Skyflow ’s data privacy vaults deliver security, compliance, and governance via a simple API. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money.

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. Use Affiliates As Local Sales Partners MapTiler maintains developer documentation in English — and as the primary business language throughout the world, this works well for most of its users.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

TLDR - the recent debt ceiling deal may actually pose a drain on liquidity (in addition to ongoing QT) as the government sells T Bills to refill the Treasury General Account (this starts today!). Open Market Operations: This involves buying and selling government securities to influence the amount of money in the banking system.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

It takes an enormous amount of time, money, and headcount for SaaS companies to handle VAT, GST, and sales tax (and any other form of indirect tax) in-house. That’s why most businesses turn to tax software and/or tax consultants to help them manage indirect tax.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This is how surcharges have become a staple solution, and they’ve helped businesses stay afloat in the sea of overheads. Surcharges are diverse in form and purpose to serve businesses across sectors. Here are some examples of surcharges and how businesses employ them to maintain sustainable operations. Fuel surcharge.

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Stax

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Did you know that in 2021, merchants ended up paying a whopping $105 billion in credit card processing fees? Even though they’re one of the most popular payment options today, accepting credit cards at your business can turn out to be a significant expense. In exchange, businesses pay a host of different fees (e.g.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2024

This includes setting up initial accounting practices and systems, HR, payroll, banking, financial controls, and tax compliance. Financial Systems When setting up initial finance systems, it's important to think about scalability. It's easy to integrate with external apps and services.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Fed’s Repo market had to essentially be bailed out by the government. The first thing SMBs did was look at their credit card payments and cancel everything they could. Anyone processing a lot of SMB and credit-card deals saw churn probably double. We still doubled sales in 2009. No one really expected this.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2019

As the online shopping trend continues to grow, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that more customers are taking a greater interest in how merchants handle their payment information. Understanding the basics of Payment Card Industry Standards is fairly straightforward, but maintaining full compliance can be challenging.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2022

Payhawk is the financial system of tomorrow that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, cash management, and pre-accounting into one integrated experience to give you maximum control and visibility over your business spend. Zoho offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

In its simplest form, cash accounting is a system in which a company records expenses and revenues as the money changes hands. Unlike cash accounting, accrual accounting recognizes revenues and expenses as they are posted using accounts receivable and accounts payable journal entries.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Below are 7 predictions about the startup software ecosystem. It permit companies to bring US dollars held abroad (from software sales in other countries) back to the US at a lower tax rate than before. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In cash accounting, you record all revenue and expenses when the cash enters and exits your checking account, respectively. This system is often preferred by smaller companies because it requires less expertise to implement. In the accrual accounting method, you record revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

This is usually accomplished with the double-entry system of accounting discussed below. Bookkeeping: What not to do SaaS metrics with Baremetrics Key Bookkeeping Terminology The importance of bookkeeping for your small business Putting your bookkeeping data to work. Wouldn’t something like this be great for your business?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. It requires rethinking everything from billing and revenue forecasting, to the role of Account Executives, to how to drive a customer success mindset across the entire organization.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Baremetrics can integrate directly with your payment gateway, such as Stripe, and pull information about your customers and their behavior into a crystal-clear dashboard. When running a SaaS company, tracking revenue becomes a unique challenge. What Makes SaaS Accounting Different from Traditional Accounting?

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Solution Demand.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But if you thought the same policies for collecting sales tax in physical brick and mortar stores applied to digital businesses, think again. In the United States alone, sales tax is governed by 45 different sets of state-level laws. Location is everything for ecommerce sales tax.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They are items that can be converted into cash, and assets can be owned by an individual, company, or government. Baremetrics monitors subscription revenue for businesses that bring in revenue through subscription-based services. Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start managing your subscription business right.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funnel tracking software can solve this problem. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels. You can use them when monitoring in-app experiences, launching new features, and tracking campaign performances. Want the best of everything?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry. It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas.

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Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2020

This is why you should stay away from unsustainable hail-mary tactics to reduce churn in your business. Deferred payment terms on subscription renewals, additional discounts, free professional services—these offers might work now, but can you afford to keep applying them next quarter or next year? These customers will churn.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 3, 2024

Did you know that the origins of the newspaper lay in Ancient Rome, and specifically in the Acta Diurna (or the “Daily Acts”) that the Roman government used to dispatch every day to inform its citizens of any new policy or whatever else was being discussed in the Senate?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Dictionaries and founders alike can’t agree on the definition of what it means to bootstrap a business. Bootstrapping purists insist on only using revenue from customers to fund the business.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance. Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Who is the Google of Brazil?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support? FastSpring is ready, and we want to ensure your success by providing key steps you can take to ensure a smooth and successful peak sales season.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Everyone I work with uses document management software, and you should too. Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. The Top 5 Options for Document Management Software.

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