Stax

MAY 5, 2025

Industry data shows that when it comes to marketing spending, 82% of companies agree that it’s cheaper to invest in retention than acquisition. A few renowned mobile payment gateway providers include Stax, Braintree, PayPal, Stripe, Adyen, and Authorize.net. This, in turn, will lead to more repeat business.

Payments 88

Payments Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Stax

MARCH 6, 2025

PayPal, Venmo, and Alipay). Small businesses can go cashless without a hefty investment or lengthy setup using QR codes. Invest in NFC or RFID-enabled payment readers that support contactless credit cards, mobile wallets, and wearables. Invest in up-to-date, PCI-compliant solutions. Static QR codes.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

She’s built PayPal for over four years. Previously, Marcy held several senior leadership roles at PayPal where she managed an 800 plus person global organization at global team, and led two of PayPal’s preeminent business units. So at PayPal I ran professional services and support for 95 million merchants.

Engineering 83

Engineering Scale Merchant Services Sales Hiring 83

Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2025

She’s built PayPal for over four years. Previously, Marcy held several senior leadership roles at PayPal where she managed an 800 plus person global organization at global team, and led two of PayPal’s preeminent business units. So at PayPal I ran professional services and support for 95 million merchants.

Engineering 70

Engineering Scale Merchant Services Sales Hiring 70

Stax

APRIL 10, 2025

The beauty of it all is that the credit facilities they offer can make your products and services much more financially accessible to customers, which could lead to more sales.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 88

Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2024

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b We are thrilled to announce our investment in Allium , alongside friends at Amplify & Kleiner Perkins. BlackRock & Fidelity have launched tokenized Treasury products with nearly $1b in assets combined. Understanding what data means across this universe isn’t easy.

Blockchain 242

Blockchain Merchant Services Payment Solutions Investment 242

Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. This article will cover PayPal’s metrics and reporting features, as well as how PayPal data can be better tracked in Baremetrics. Table of Contents.

PayPal 98

PayPal Merchant Services Payments SaaS Payments 98

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2024

At SaaStr Europa, Skyflow’s CEO, Anshu Sharma, and COS, Rajsi Rana, shared examples of what does and doesn’t qualify as a pivot and the biggest lessons learned from over 50 investments for making a pivot successful. Here’s the truth: most pivots fail. And many companies that you think were successful pivots weren’t actually pivots at all.

Payment Services 261

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods PayPal 261

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. If you’re trying to decide between Stripe and PayPal, you may arrive at a difficult crossroad. Overview Both Stripe and PayPal have exceptional payment processing capabilities, but their features don’t stop there.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments PayPal 93

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. billion in 2012.

CTO Hire 284

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 284

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith Rabois is an investment partner at Khosla Ventures where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. Keith : And really we learned this lesson at PayPal. How are you feeling today?

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. This is almost always the best investment you can make to help. But after that, it’s tough. OK besides a blanket Don’t Ever Do Double Stretches Except in Year One, what’s another idea, SaaStr? Get them a mentor VP on Day 1 who they can talk to.

Sales Hiring 339

Sales Hiring PayPal Growth Hacking Startup 339

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2020

This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. #1: “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” With David Sacks. A classic already. Watch it. #2:

Scale 222

Scale PayPal Investment Scaling 222

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Used “dollar airdrops” PayPal deposited $10 into each new user’s account when registering in their first growth phase. years payback on marketing dollars invested. There’s much more in the analysis that’s worth reading. Private Software Startups. Public Software Companies. Uni Airdrop Annualized.

Blockchain 216

Blockchain PayPal Startup Pricing 216

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square.

Merchant Services 222

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 222

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

You can see that dollars invested by these non-traditional investors grew at 31% CAGR from 2011 to 2021, which is kind of astounding. Traditional investors invested $62B into the asset class even at the peak vs. non-traditional investors at $286B. The tourists, a.k.a. These non-traditional venture investors participate meaningfully.

Venture Capital 300

Venture Capital Management Scale AI 300

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

You can absolutely make a ton of money investing in The Obvious. CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures. Underserved Markets for SaaS Companies with NextGen Venture Partners, Precursor, Unusual Ventures and Backstage Capital. I’m excited this session is already 60% full. It does work.

Trends 250

Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 250

The Angel VC

JANUARY 11, 2013

Here are some examples of unscalable hacks that I'm aware of: In the early days of PayPal, PayPal reportedly listed lots of products on eBay and made PayPal the only accepted payment option for these products. It's a classic chicken-egg-problem, and unscalable hacks can help you solve it.

PayPal 119

PayPal Payment Solutions Scale Payment Methods 119

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Some of these businesses, maybe even many of these businesses, have started investing more and more in selling online to their preexisting in store customers. crosstalk 00:11:49].

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 236

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. Okay, so the crazy thing is that when I was doing PayPal and Yammer we really just used Excel. Let’s see here, a lot of questions about my investments.

Startup 293

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 293

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Along with membership management, this plugin has a great range of additional features, like: Member emails where you can welcome new members Unlimited subscription packages Performance reports Data exports Payment integrations with Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, and Authorize.net Extensive support. S2Member is an excellent option.

Payment Methods 137

Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions PayPal 137

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Unless you were a very large creator who could afford complicated and expensive enterprise software, you were likely stitching together a PayPal merchant account and a spreadsheet. Moving further to the right, a light marketplace will invest in basic search and contact flows.

Marketplace as a Service 141

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Stax

JULY 9, 2024

Peer-to-peer digital payments Venmo, PayPal, and even Facebook Messenger are examples of peer-to-peer electronic payment solutions. If you run a market stall or a small services business, peer-to-peer payments could be a great way to start accepting payments before investing in the more costly payment gateways and solutions.

Payment Methods 163

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 163

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

PayPal was the main alternative at the time, which allowed companies to receive payments, without having to build their own stack. But integrating with PayPal was equally complex and it was done in a way that required businesses to send their customers to the site of PayPal where payments were completed.

Payment Methods 105

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 105

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Rico Mallozzi: Yeah, I think oftentimes people look at marketplaces as like a storefront, like an eBay, but it’s much more like a PayPal. It’s definitely an investment that requires that kind of executive level visibility. And to build off that point, invest the resources. Rico Mallozzi: Yeah. Good advice.

Scale 259

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 259

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

PayPal and Stripe are both examples of payment gateways. But if you want to analyze that data and look for trends so you can budget smarter, make better investments and just be in an overall better financial position, you’d use a budgeting tool like Mint or YNAB. how you receive the payment). Stripe reviews 2. per transaction.

Payment Solutions 106

Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 106

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

He has many initiatives to finance progress: the Thiel fellows programs, his numerous investment vehicles and working with his colleagues from PayPal who have built SpaceX, Telsa, Yammer, LinkedIn and other disruptive companies. To his great credit, Thiel is a contributor to this effort.

Innovation 112

Innovation Transportation Entrepreneurship Travel 112

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Along with our experience, we also offer the peace of mind that comes with being backed by a top-performing, highly reputable investment firm. PayPal for Business PayPal is a well-known digital wallet for personal online payments, but they also offer a payment processing option for small business. QR code and POS systems.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 78

Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

As public interest in fundraising has grown, people are increasingly invested in supporting the causes that resonate the most with them. Unlike one-off charity payments, a recurring donation system schedules donations automatically after a set time interval. Having recurring donors mitigates this issue.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 105

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

Whether it’s customers or retailers, figure out how to identify what is the most meaningful thing to solve and really be ruthless about prioritization, both in how you invest resources, but also what you want to really drive, what you want to build …then execute perfectly.” ” Monetization requires scale.

Marketplace as a Service 184

Marketplace as a Service B2C PayPal Scaling 184

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

David Sacks has a long history in tech from his time as a Founder and CEO of Geni.com and Yammer to his stint as COO of Paypal. Today, David Sacks is Co-founder of Craft Ventures, an early-stage VC fund that counts Bird, Reddit, Cloud9, and SpaceX amongst its investments. Hear how you can turn your SaaS Startup into an army.

Payment Services 113

Payment Services CTO Hire Payments New CTO 113

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

So, they invested in FastSpring, a specialized ecommerce platform to take care of order fulfillment and processing transactions. Businesses need to invest in a strategy that means their customers will be able to find them, they have a presence online, and orders will be fulfilled quickly. Tip #2: Invest in great content.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

IT World

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Businesses such as AT&T, Microsoft, Visa, and PayPal all accept payment by Bitcoin and even small companies are getting into cryptocurrency. If you invest in Bitcoin, I'm sure this is great news. Bitcoin is more popular than ever. To me, it's more proof that a sucker's born every minute.

PayPal 75

PayPal Investment Business 75

Neil Patel

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s essential to establish your goals before investing time into strategy and implementation to ensure you’re taking action to move you closer to your goals. Whether or not you want to pursue social commerce for your business, you should still be investing in social media marketing. Conclusion.

Social Media 145

Social Media Payment Methods Payments Payment Services 145

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

However, you might find these analytics limited and want to invest in a more dynamic solution. Unlike Stripe, there's a fee of $149 to use the platform, and you must invest in a payment gateway and merchant account to collect payments, which increases costs. This billing software also provides real-time sales data and history.

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

Baremetrics

JUNE 16, 2021

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How To Build the Future by Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is a cofounder of PayPal and known for his investments in companies including Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yelp and Stripe. The Hard Thing About Hard Things was mentioned by in our Founder Chats episode with Brian Parks of Bigfoot Capital.

Scale 97

Scale Startup Sales Hiring PayPal 97

Subscription Flow

MAY 2, 2024

of transaction value in 2022, the adoption of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins by companies like Ferrari and PayPal signal a potential growth in the market. As a result, shifting to crypto will be an investment with limited (if any) benefits for them.) 2. Less Currency Volatility for Some: Hear me out.

Payment Solutions 105

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Services 105