SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. Ideally, as a company scales, headcount doesn’t scale exactly in tandem. Ah…you know there can’t be a B2B software article that doesn’t mention churn, right?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 52

The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

Contentful, formerly known as a UI-free content management system (headless CMS), now views itself in a broader light. as Twilio served the communications market and Stripe the payments space, Contentful wants to handle the world’s digital content. In more practical terms, Contentful doesn’t want to help companies build apps.

API abstraction (application programming interface 52

API abstraction (application programming interface Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Once the 1.5x 2 Main approaches to RBF.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction. If you like it, tweet it! ]

Startup 189

Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 189

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

Payments 100

Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2022

Use story mapping before designing and coding the final solution to visualize potential user flow and put brainstormed ideas on paper. Qualitative UX data analytics tells the logic of the user experience with a web app. UX-Analytics-Instead-of-App-Analysis. Tag features and track engagement with Userpilot. What is UX analytics?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Data Payment Solutions 52

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Once the 1.5x 2 Main approaches to RBF.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Like a large tanker at cruising speed that cannot quickly take a turn, a startup with a fast-growing headcount and a high burn rate loses some of its ability to quickly react to new information, new insights, or changes in the market.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

New data about buyer psychology in B2B software purchases from Datanyze found that more than 50% of buyers would respond to cold pitches from people they know in person or from LinkedIn.) Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive. You’ve got the connections and authority. And this is a big deal. Need a proof point?

Sales Hiring 85

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Payment Services 85

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 111

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Features 111

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Like a large tanker at cruising speed that cannot quickly take a turn, a startup with a fast-growing headcount and a high burn rate loses some of its ability to quickly react to new information, new insights, or changes in the market.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??) Look for tools that can scale with you.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. So, in the following list, we share how easily each solution integrates with other software.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But for some reason this is precisely what the 99% of software companies are doing when they implement the SDR/AE sales model. We just were never going to get that headcount. Was it enjoyable?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

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. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

If you’re able to identify the customers who had really explicit pain with their prior provider that drove them to choose your solution, these are going to be really great customers to enlist as advocates as well. It’s almost like a point system where if you do this, then you get Y. What am I going to get?

Scale 142

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 142

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But Tara Bryant, SVP of Sales at Pipedrive, thinks this is a mistake if you don’t have the right processes, systems, and metrics in place first. When I started, they had a big growth plan as far as headcount, but they were a little bit looser on processes and cadences and things like that framework I was talking about.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

A sales operations manager makes your sales team more effective, so you get more done with fewer headcount. ” or “Can I wire payment?” The startup sales operations manager acts as a right hand to the sales leader. In the early days when the sales team is small, this role is tactical, operational, and strategic.

Sales Recruiting 64

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. And this is highlighting something that we’re really seeing across the board.

Sales Hiring 159

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

Tech integrations make for a very natural narrative about why and how solutions should be co-sold together or cross-sold into each other’s customer bases. Customers value the ability to build their own solution stack , and they routinely look to their existing vendors for help. Middle of the funnel: warm your cold deals.

Scale 95

Scale Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

It’s especially great if you get payment up front and then know that customer is profitable from that point on. . We had one of our portfolio companies with 60% of their headcount reporting up through CS, and that’s how they focused and was the culture of the business. Because ACV is important, vertical vs. horizontal is important.

Retention 61

Retention Payment Methods SaaS Payments Outsourced Development 61

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Zapier’s support organization currently stands at close to 100 in headcount – almost a third of the entire company. We listened to them to try and understand what they needed to succeed, whether that was a break in their payments, or to automate further because they were now working from home. Balancing technology with a human touch.

Payments 118

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 118

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. The number of employees when things get particularly troublesome are three, 10, 30, 100, 300 and 1,000 - before company headcount hits these milestones you’ll need to rethink how you operate.

SaaS Payments 131

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services Business 131