SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Funding to Date : $37M from Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, and others. Funding to Date : $37M from Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, and others. It helps companies launch and sustain a scalable customer growth machine and allows them to achieve better ROI on their digital ad spending. Funding to Date : $26.2M

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

ChurnZero

MAY 25, 2023

Forecasts help business leaders identify the risk of churn or opportunity of growth in terms of business impact. They rely on forecasts to secure funding and allocated resources. Segmenting these metrics is important to highlight growth as a result of upselling, cross-selling, and customer expansion efforts. Renewal forecast.

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Forecasting Customer Success Outsourced Development Metrics 97

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

We looked at the data and discovered a few vital moments in the funding history of the region. Starting from 2001 with the establishment of DGF Investimentos, there has been a steady addition to the roster of funds, with key periods where a few were started around the same time. One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Accepting credit card transactions is no longer a decision of whether to but rather how to. With cashless now BEING king, credit and debit cards are the primary method for your customers to make payments. Pre-pandemic, 62.3% of consumer payments came through card payments. And electronic payments were at 14.2%, closing in on cash at 15.5%.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We also analyzed how these products have grown over time, and where growth is coming from. Of the remaining list members, a whopping 48% are completely bootstrapped, with no outside funding, according to PitchBook data. But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? The tech stack.

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Generative AI AI ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence 145

Buffer Resources

JUNE 5, 2023

When I started my digital marketing company, BDY Consult , seven years ago, I kept running into a problem that’s all too common for mission-driven founders. The customers who I most wanted to serve—small business owners and solopreneurs, particularly in historically underserved communities—could rarely afford my services.

Outsourcing Services 93

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale Business 93

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Even as the company begins to expand, it’s important to prioritize these one-to-one conversations because understanding how your users interact with your product is actually the key to healthy growth. As the General Manager for HubSpot’s Service Hub , Michael knows a thing or two about keeping customers close. Short on time?

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2022

Incredible CRO/CMO Growth Track! Get funded at Annual! We’re back for the 8th SaaStr Annual, Sep 13-15 , at the outdoor / open air San Mateo country fairgrounds between SF and Palo Alto. This worked so well last year, we’re staying at the 40 acre campus, just going even bigger and better! Calendly (!), Cloudflare (!),

Scale 187

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Scaling 187

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

However, where it gets particularly interesting is in the roster of growth stage companies. The third stop will be New York, where 400+ SaaS leaders will gather to connect and share what they’ve learned about growing and scaling their SaaS. The SaaStock ecosystem on the East Coast.

Scale 145

Scale SaaS Sales Hiring Operational efficiency. 145

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The invite-only event has only one prerequisite: SaaS founders need to have achieved either $3M+ in ARR or have secured Series A funding. In what can be rightfully deemed the era of the entrepreneur, we often gravitate towards glorifying founders; their successes and lifestyles. What happens at SaaSociety.

Scale 155

Scale Scaling Entertainment Travel 155

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I admit that I’ve been more than a little slow to put out this post, but at least I’ve missed the late December (and early January) predictions rush. 2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. 2020 Predictions Review. Ongoing social unrest. No explanation necessary. Swing and a MISS.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Given the volume of first time entrepreneurs and the broad growth of interest in entrepreneurship, I think these programs are invaluable. Education - Examples include General Assembly runs a substantial education program and YCombinator operates Startup School and First Growth’s Venture Network. It’s just enough to get someone started.

Entrepreneurship 100

Entrepreneurship Banking Education Finance 100

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consider moving your centre of business to a bustling tech hub (check out these perspectives on the startup scenes in New York City and Estonia ). . Does your product-led growth strategy deliver on its promise to customers and prospects? . Phase 1: Idea. Average seed round in 2021: $5.6M. What is your superpower?

Sales Hiring 82

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Marketing 82

The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

Now that we have a reasonable grasp of what Contentful does, let’s talk about growth: No, that’s not an errant space. Contentful’s CEO declined to share essentially anything concerning its business growth, aside from that when Contentful raised its Series E it was around an “inflection point” for the company. What does it do?

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

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This simplistic model of growth worked to get the support team to about 25 people. We had funding, an accelerating sales team and customer count, and awesome tech. And at least for me, I never even saw the growth storm coming. But how did we go so quickly from growth dreams coming true to a 4 month support nightmare?

Customer Support 79

Customer Support Sales Hiring Scale Acquisition 79

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

More than 500 SaaS companies participated in this year’s survey, which covered topics like financial performance, product led growth adoption, founder priorities and much more. Adopting product led growth means embracing the End User Era. But benchmarks alone are not enough. We’ve got to make the leap from benchmarks to action.

Benchmarks 41

Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Scale SaaS 41

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Streaming platforms are taking many forms, from gaming video hub Twitch to more retail-led concepts such as ShopWith, which allows users to follow fashion and beauty creators, learn about featured products and then purchase them. People are longing for authentic interactions in the real world as much as in the digital world.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategy Entertainment Social Media 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In this second session of the CRO Confidential series, Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond chats with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin about whether tech founders still need to be based in SF, the current correction of the VC market, and what to look for in an investor. Honestly, it’ll be challenging to completely replace San Francisco as the B2B hub. .

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring B2B 183

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Okay, cool.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

Today’s methodologies and processes give us a lot of different types of leads. We have product-qualified leads , marketing-qualified leads, sales-qualified leads, and many more. As someone who works in sales, handling all these types of leads can be overwhelming and exhausting. How to generate SALs. How to close SALs.

Payment Methods 111

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales 111

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

After singling out 38 brilliant SaaS stars , we had a suspicion we were going to find some notable fuelers of growth. Because of the local focus of the list, we have omitted some global funds that are active in the region when it comes to SaaS. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I’ve had the benefit of a front-row seat to Stripe’s growth and expansion into new markets. We do some research to identify how many funded startups exist in the area, and what percentage of consumers are buying things online. The businesses we serve are either global, or on a path to it, so Stripe has to be global too.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Sales Hiring Payment Services Payments 40

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Funding to date: $311M. Funding to date: $27.2M. Collibra is a definite leader in the field, and as proof recently raised $100 million in series E funding ! Funding to date: $234M. With 500% year-over-year growth and a recent successful $35 million Series C round , Kustomer know their game. Founded: 2007.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

TL;DR A merchant account is a type of business bank account that facilitates electronic payments, including credit cards, and acts as a temporary holding place for funds incurred from customer transactions. Instead, it acts as an intermediary holding place to secure and verify funds when a customer makes a purchase.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To counter this “too big to fail” risk—and to promote the UK as a global tech hub—the UK kicked off a policy initiative to become a global superpower in financial services and technology. The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them.

Merchant Services 120

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 120

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Funding becomes more tight, which means that only the most impactful and disruptive opportunities get financed. Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. If you want to be kept informed of our new posts you can subscribe to our content newsletter. but it’s a tradition now).

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Early-Stage Funding & Customer Success. ChurnZero raised a $2.5

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Choosing the right tools for your business and assessing if it delivers value for your money is essential for optimizing product growth. Amplitude has a freemium pricing model with one free and two premium plans: Growth and Enterprise. The Growth plan includes advanced behavioral analytics, actionable analytics, etc.,

Pricing 96

Pricing Software Review Scale Customer Support 96

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Funding to date: $311M. Funding to date: $27.2M. Collibra is a definite leader in the field, and as proof recently raised $100 million in series E funding ! Funding to date: $234M. With 500% year-over-year growth and a recent successful $35 million Series C round , Kustomer know their game. Founded: 2007.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Instead of focusing on one market alone and growing slow, Max decided to approach growth differently – working with enterprise customers he would follow existing customers around the world and expand in each market where they were present rather than seek to find new customers in one place.

Enterprise 133

Enterprise SaaS Technology Marketing 133

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Progress gets measured by learnings – not growth, revenue, or retention – so you get to try new ideas, take bigger risks, move fast and break things. For innovation hubs to be successful, the leadership must clearly articulate the vision and create space within that vision for innovation to happen. And it’s a sound strategy.

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Innovation Scale Startup Government 226

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Typically, SWOT analysis is used at an operational level to help business leaders assess a company’s current position in the market and highlight areas for future growth. Pay-Per-Click ( PPC ) marketing can be one of the quickest and most effective ways to drive customers to your site. But it can be hard to make money through PPC ads.

Sales Hiring 138

Sales Hiring Advertising Branding Consulting 138

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Rodrigo then worked at Centria Partners, as well as at the US-based healthcare VC fund Aurora Funds. Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked? What did not work?

Sales Hiring 192

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 192

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2020

406: Kate Taylor is Head of Customer Experience at Notion, one of the fastest-growing startups of the last 5 years with over $68M in funding from some of the best in the business including Index, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Josh Kopelman and Aydin Senkut to name a few. What is the role of sales in a product-led growth organization?

Scale 165

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 165

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the specialty electronic medical record sector. WebPT achieved 30% market share and transformed an entire vertical with a purpose-built solution in a tech-averse industry. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 169

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

If you live near a startup hub of some sort, you’ve probably seen their billboards and out-of-home takeovers. This week, I invited Michael to come on the show and tell us about their growth strategy. This June, they completed a fresh round of funding, bringing their valuation to $2.6 billion dollars. Short on time? Tara: Right.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36