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. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 118

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the modern business landscape, compliance is not just a buzzword but a fundamental requirement, essential for evaluating a startup’s capability to offer risk-free, reliable, and trustworthy services. Adhering to regulations prevents duplicated efforts, reduces errors, and guarantees efficient and effective processes.

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Payment Services compliance Startup SaaS Payments 52

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. Micro startup acquisitions.

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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. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. TinySeed , Earnest Capital , and Indie.vc

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Beginning Stage: At the start, you’ll either not have any revenue or far less revenue than is sustainable. Customer-Funded Stage: At some point, your revenue stream will get to the point where customers can finally fund the day-to-day operations of the business. Focus as much as possible on your burgeoning revenue stream.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

Christoph elaborates on how a long-term, strong economic market with low interest rates led to an influx of capital in the system. Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine SaaS products are often first on the chopping block when companies affected by shrinking revenue look to slow their burn rate. The result: a bubble.

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Trends SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

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.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 40

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. This can sometimes be underestimated by thousands but you should not be scared to make the first steps.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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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Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 185

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. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. Horizons Ventures.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

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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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders.

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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. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

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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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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. .

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Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

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. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

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. Recurring payments.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Want to see more content like this session? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 166

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin: Unicorn generation, how does that inform your thinking in terms of types of investments? I’m really passionate about seed investing. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 164

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 192

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

Our investment in Pento. Ola, Christoph, and I have been working very closely with Pento over the past two years and now is a great time to share more about our investment and our thesis for Pento. Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? million Series A led by our friends at General Catalyst.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In this article, we’ll look at why the choice of bootstrapping vs VC funding could be the single most important choice you make in your business as well as some of the factors that can help you determine which path is the right one for you.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In this article, we’ll look at why the choice of bootstrapping vs VC funding could be the single most important choice you make in your business as well as some of the factors that can help you determine which path is the right one for you.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Michael and his team created a lucrative reward system for startups , which they were able to do through group purchasing (taking advantage of a vertical that allowed them to buy software packages). What actually made me most comfortable was when they said they were building their system like a ledger, so it can’t be messed up.

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

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 146

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. He then founded Upserve and sold that business to Vista Equity Partners. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55