ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s when it occurred to him: the process of scheduling an appointment with the barber was the same as it was 20 years ago. In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops. The barbers still wanted cash payments too. Dave had found his niche and Squire was born.

Payment Solutions 52

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. 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. Buffer spent $3.3 John Doherty of Credo.

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Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

While our regular company updates focus largely on product updates, this one is intended to pull back the curtain and provide some insight into how much it costs to build a modern SaaS business, how we’ve allocated equity amongst our team, and what we’ve done from a marketing perspective to grow our user base. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

SaaS Payments 55

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

When bootstrapping a business, you are using your personal assets—cash, of course, but also your garage, home office, personal car, laptop, and anything else you can extract value from—to build and expand your business. What does bootstrapping look like for SaaS? You will be funding your dream using personal savings.

Business 96

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS.

Development Team Review 157

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users. Indie.VC - Indie.VC

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. After singling out 38 brilliant SaaS stars , we had a suspicion we were going to find some notable fuelers of growth. Horizons Ventures.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments.

Scale 194

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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. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

Enterprise 10

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Your company will begin repaying the fund 12 to 36 months after the investment is made.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

I’ve come to believe that there are only two scenarios where it undeniably makes sense to raise venture capital: You’re building something so capital intensive that it can’t possibly be built without massive amounts of money. If the second describes you, well done—venture capital may very well make sense for you.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Jason Lemkin: Unicorn generation, how does that inform your thinking in terms of types of investments?

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 165

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. When the future is predictable, people like to invest. I’ll give you an example in your personal life.

Technical Review 194

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 194

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 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. Here’s what he had to say.

Scale 98

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. And that’s been really fun during the pandemic.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Technology Enables Strategy; Doesn’t Define It. Sales Process Engagement.

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