Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., We also sought the advice of several software providers who work with fintech borrowers to get their best approaches to managing one or more debt facilities. Certain software and services providers have the ability to do all 3; other times the roles are divided.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Development Team Review Outsourcing Services 95

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. RD Station.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. Today we’re going to be talking about a really interesting topic, I think, what brands look for when considering acquiring software companies.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Naomi Pilosof Ionita | Investing Partner @ Menlo Ventures. I think monetization doesn’t always get the airtime it deserves.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s a good idea to set up a business security system before you need it. For too many companies, the decision to make this investment is reactive. A lot of people see cost as a barrier to installing a reliable business security system. That used to be true, but today, there are tons of really affordable solutions.

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Payment Solutions Business Wireless Payment Methods 110

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

Connect with Jakob on LinkedIn to stay updated on all things sales and let's dive into looking at the sales tools, which will power your sales process and take you to your next level of growth. Do you know of software, which belongs on this list? Drive Revenue. Terminus - Account-Based Marketing Platform for Quality Growth.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 111

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math. They’ve cut the amount they want to invest. So you’d raise $100 million fund.

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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. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business. Salesflare – Simple yet powerful CRM for small businesses selling B2B. Pipedrive – Sales CRM & Pipeline Management Software (use this link for 30 days extra trial).

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 104

SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2019

We invest from the very earliest stages to the latest stages of software and consumer companies and we’re based in California. A lot of these businesses use a common marketing technique in order to grow really quickly, and that marketing technique is free trial. What does this mean? Here’s another slide.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

Scale 102

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 102

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services 99

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bill.com has become an SMB powerhouse, with 120,000+ customers and a stunning $25B+ market cap. Bill.com had to develop a network that today has millions on vendors processing bills and payments on it. So they let folks use the platform the way they wanted, from paper checks to fax and more. #2. But it paid off.

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SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Scale 56

CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Margin that is like software.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 196

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our investment in Graneet. Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. Hundreds of thousands in Europe.

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Technical Cofounder Construction Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

During this year we’ll also start sharing the country sales tools stacks series entitles “Sales Tools made In…” Finally all that is being tied together in integrated tool stacks with some of our friends at the companies listed here. Salesforce.com – The Customer Success Platform To Grow Your Business.

Scale 99

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 99

FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

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Scale Sales Payment Methods Merchant Services 157

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Many times, a customer can just use a credit card to start using a vendor’s solution. These contracts are very common in ‘revenue share’ models (i.e.,

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Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com. Why does Harry believe investing in customer success is far more important than customer acquisition? * Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 159

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for?

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Scale 132

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As we head into the final stretch of the year, here’s a look at some of the top operational and business trends that we are hearing about. Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. Keep it iterative. This is a partial explanation of why the U.S.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Trends Payment Solutions 59

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

The best way to illustrate what I mean is by examples, and I’ve used the email marketing software category to illustrate some of the different models taken by different companies in the space. Revenue Model – A description of how the company generates revenue. Factors to consider. Product capability.

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Scale SaaS Payments B2B Strategy 192

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. All that money went from public to private because, holy crap, Sequoia invested at Zoom at a billion.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 202

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? I don’t know anyone right now.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Scale Payments 194

ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. What questions reveal the most?

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Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 127

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158