SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Does it have to be in person? How should this data feedback into your product roadmap and pipeline? * So if we start on the first type of SaaS businesses that sell to SMBs and often one to five person teams, and they likely will always sell to those types of teams. Yes, it does not scale, but the beauty is the product.

Scale 127

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

User Pilot

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. Collaboration between product , marketing, and sales teams is essential to effectively identify and target high-value customers. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) – for example from subscriptions.

SaaS Payments 106

SaaS Payments Customer Lifetime Value Payment Solutions Acquisition 106

ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

Chasing the wrong priorities and investments can quickly snowball and compound over time, resulting in stunted progress and flatline growth. That’s why it’s essential to invest in the people, processes, and technologies that create the most value for your customers and your organization. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M

Customer Success 90

Customer Success Payments Payment Services Scale 90

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. What is Buffer. Tweet this quote.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? The fact that there’s no standard reporting method for churn doesn’t help. Nathan Latka interviews founders and publishes their SaaS metrics on his website —the average gross churn rate of the 300 listed companies is 16.8%.

Churn 55

Churn SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 55

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. The Types of Platforms.

Payments 56

Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. In just two days, the Chargify crew goes live and beyond subscription —and they’re taking us with them.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

Phil: Being part of the Customer Engagement team here, I think a lot about product onboarding and expansion, so you can imagine how excited I was when we launched Product Tours last month. Patrick, can you describe exactly what Product Tours is? It starts with so many businesses, which are subscription businesses.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding Software Review 106

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. Reworking your product.

SaaS Payments 229

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 229

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Can one person buy via a credit card or will multiple stakeholders need to be involved? Goal of website.

Business Model 195

Business Model Scale Pricing Payment Methods 195

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. And we probably needed them yesterday.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

We invest in companies that transform the way people work. We mostly do seed-stage investments and a little bit if Series A. The verticals we focus on are obviously the office productivity, dev tools, but also some of the more antiquated industries, including construction, agriculture, manufacturing, et cetera.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 143

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? On your way to building a go-to-market strategy to launch a new product, you might wonder the former question a lot. GTM metrics are pieces of data or indicators that help product marketers like you keep track of the success of their strategy.

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Marketing 104

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Activation: Users realize the value of your product ( Aha! Retention: Users keep making repeat purchases after their initial subscription payment. Revenue: Users invest more in your product (expansion revenue) by upgrading and purchasing add-ons. How to build a growth marketing strategy? A/B testing.

Growth Marketing 98

Growth Marketing SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Methods 98

SmartKarrot

JULY 13, 2020

Since they live or die off this scheme, you might want to take a notch up if you wish to see a boom in the SaaS market. In a subscription-based business, it is expected to regularize a recurring revenue to a monthly figure. By using the method of ARPA, you MRR = 10 x $50 = $500. Opt for Prepaid Payment methods.

Payments 10

Payments Payment Methods Revenue SaaS Payments 10

SaaSOptics

APRIL 14, 2022

SaaS pricing is typically done on a subscription basis where customers pay a recurring monthly or annual fee to use a company’s software. By transitioning to a usage-based pricing model, customers are only billed strictly based on the value they receive from your product/service.

Payments 98

Payments Pricing SaaS Payments Payment Services 98

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The self-service sales model is thus all about low-priced products accompanied by a fully automated customer journey. Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. Focus: Product and Customer Journey.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. A SaaS company maintains responsibility for the servers, database (and the data they contain), and other software that allow their product to be accessed and used. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You want to trigger in-app experiences based on analytics – Heap doesn’t offer built-in tools to personalize the user experience based on product analytics and insights. A product adoption platform like Userpilot can help you bypass the process of finding the right engagement tools.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Pricing 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Basically, every user interaction is an event, and this can be everything that the user does in the app or on the website, for example, clicking on a button, completing a form, viewing a page, closing a pop-up window, etc. Userpilot is a product growth platform that drives user activation , feature adoption, and expansion revenue.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

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. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

The key causes of customer churn are poor customer support , buggy product, wrong product-market fit, bad user experience, poor onboarding process, high pricing, and long time-to-value. Use welcome screens to segment customers and understand their jobs-t0-be-done to personalize their onboarding.

Underperforming Technical Team 98

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

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. Our job is to peer around corners and make bold bets.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. You pay a subscription. ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. Why the hell is it so hard?

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. We were on the phone selling our software before we’d even really begun to get the first few customers in and figure out what do they really need? Your product has value for them.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. Which was that pioneering inside sales motion driving a lot through online and through WebEx at the time.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Michael goes into a lot more detail about identifying new international markets to expand into around 14:30. Global SEO: The First Thing You Need to Verify One of the first things that Michael checks when he’s working with a new client that has a website translated into multiple languages is their hreflang tags.

Payment Solutions 118

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Strategy Software 118

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

This post will help you wrap your head around the main concepts in product analytics, and how to implement them to grow your product! Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics? It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. Product analytics is objective.

SaaS Payments 84

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 84

wepay

MARCH 23, 2018

SaaS businesses tend to believe in and use aggressive growth marketing approaches – at least once they are past the phase of building product and figuring out product-market fit. But growth marketing and marketing for growth aren’t quite the same thing, and every SaaS business is unique.

SaaS Payments 40

SaaS Payments Marketing SaaS Payments 40