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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. Why did you do the deal?

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14 User Behavior Trends For SaaS in 2024

User Pilot

Product analytics can help you track changing user behavior for your app but here are some industry-wide changes that are influencing purchasing decisions in 2024. The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods.

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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

This is the same advice they give YC companies to become much more successful at fundraising when they’re pre-product market fit. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. That’s it.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. If you find a product market fit, take your business global early.”

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

SaaStr

Ellevest is on a mission to close the gender investing gap by leveraging a robo-advisor designed especially for women. Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

When you hire your first couple reps, they do need to have sold a software product. It can work out a little bit for tiny SMBs, but it doesn’t work in software, okay? There’s another old classic SaaStr post, don’t hire the wrong VP marketing, you’ll just get a bunch of pens with your blue logos on it.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Average salary: $105,761/yr.