SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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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. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. How Messente scaled with no funding. One way to scale: be location-agnostic. Instead of looking for hot new markets to market their services in, Messente let their customers lead.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. David used the U.S. as an example: “You charge in U.S.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

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.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops. The barbers still wanted cash payments too. So, while a customer might have scheduled a haircut through the Squire app on a mobile phone, they’d still have to stop somewhere to withdraw cash to pay for their haircut. “We

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

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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Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn 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. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Equity Allocation Dave, Dimitris, and myself have yet to pay ourselves any salary and continue to earn sweat equity in Outseta based on the time we’ve invested in building the business. Our lead designer, James, earns a combination of cash and equity for his time spent working on the company. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 55

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.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

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. How They Help Indie.vc

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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.

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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

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 161

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Logical Customer Segmentation: The Key to Scaling Customer Success. Customer Success-driven Sales. Sales is Part of Customer Success.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. 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. What You’ll Learn.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

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. I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 186

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. This episode is an excerpt from Aileen and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. 347: Ready to hire your first VP Sales? Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 160

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. This is a strategy that we’re replicating at Outseta, so far with James our lead designer.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

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. Des: And here we are. Which customers?

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

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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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 142

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. . When you land an enterprise client, you must be prepared to scale your business to meet their needs. Like what you are reading?

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Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. It made the rounds in tech circles online. Investment funds like Indie.VC First, Wistia had for years taken a long-term approach to growth.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. Did they come through a paid channel?

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