Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. This post is part of an ongoing series for SaaS founders and CEOs on setting up their financial stack in a scalable manner.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shopify is a huge opportunity for developers looking to expand into the micro-SaaS space. The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. Why you need to track business metrics for Shopify App Developers 10 business metrics for Shopify App Developers 1.

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Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team Metrics 98

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In SaaS, you can grow your revenue only if your churn rate is low, so retaining at-risk customers is crucial. The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. Dopple’s earliest customers are already seeing a 40% increase in conversions, and 71% of their visitors interact with 3D-enabled products. What are the values of the brand?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps refers to succeed through your own efforts without relying on investments or help from anyone else. Bootstrapped companies must focus relentlessly on sales, cash flow, and profit because they don’t have the luxury of VC investments to fall back on. Basecamp is a bootstrapped company, for instance.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. TL;DR Digital analytics refers to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting customer data from digital sources like websites and applications.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. TL;DR Digital analytics refers to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting customer data from digital sources like websites and applications.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. TL;DR Digital analytics refers to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting customer data from digital sources like websites and applications.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. TL;DR Digital analytics refers to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting customer data from digital sources like websites and applications.

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User Pilot

MARCH 26, 2024

To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024. TL;DR Digital analytics refers to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting customer data from digital sources like websites and applications.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 122

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. Now that was something you found online and bought in person. My name is David Vogelpohl.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. Our team is in Room 111.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.” Product teams can better improve and develop products when customer success has helped identify what customers need. What was the first thing you bought online?

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. Whether founders want to admit it or not, less-than-ideal funding sources like personal savings and credit cards are more popular than you’d think.

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Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

Today’s methodologies and processes give us a lot of different types of leads. Fortunately, there’s a way to make the entire process of getting, nurturing, and closing leads simple, and it only uses one type of lead — Sales Accepted Leads (SALs). And the vast majority of people think they’re bad for business and branding.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services Sales 112

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. Payment processing. 10 of the best subscription business tools for SaaS products. Some examples of common pain points include: Churn.

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SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features Payments 59

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time. In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Integration platforms are ubiquitous in SaaS.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

If you're the process of selecting your web application penetration testing vendor and if you don't know how or why to make a final decision - your're not alone. How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)? How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team?

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Does it have to be in person?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 137

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 142

SmartKarrot

AUGUST 11, 2021

The same is true for companies who are dealing in SaaS products. The lifeblood of the SaaS business is its customers. You need to put in countless hours of research and development, relentless marketing campaigns, and tireless sales effort to earn a paying customer. And nearly 60% switch companies based on poor customer service.

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SaaS Payments Churn Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 19

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. Time is money (especially in the SaaS world), and whether you’re an early stage startup or an established business, development resources are almost always at a premium. costs money and 2. costs money and 2.

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Merchant Services Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments 51

OPEXEngine

MAY 4, 2021

Corporate finance experience is declining, while investment banking is rising, as a path to the CFO seat, CFO Dive data shows. The newer path to CFO is through investment banking. ” Of 53 software-as-a-service (SaaS) CFOs that CFO Dive covered over the past year, almost 30% started out in investment banking. .

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Payment Services Finance Communication Strategy 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How many meetings is normal to have in this process?

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Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 151

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. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to upgrade to the paid version once those basic needs are met. Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer.

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Scale Scaling Payment Methods SaaS Payments 145

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 2, 2019

Giving in to stress and frustration only leads to bad decisions that could eventually sink you. Some people tend to clam up and retreat when dealing with such personalities. Surely, disagreements with investors are unavoidable, but you have to understand that they’re mostly out to protect their investments.

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