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.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2022

With Dreamforce scaled back, and our good friends at HubSpot moving Inbound to a hybrid digital/IRL event, SaaStr Annual is now the biggest event in the world for SaaS. All-day of Sep 14th we’ll have the best CROs and CMOs and more, one after another, showing you how to scale faster and better. The Playbooks to Scaling.

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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?

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leveraging Peer-to-Peer Payments One trend gaining traction with mobile payments is the use of applications such as PayPal and Venmo for more than peer payments. Choose a processor with POS hardware and software relevant to your business and the ability to scale if and when your business grows.

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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.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

You can absolutely make a ton of money investing in The Obvious. What It Really Takes to go from Series A to Series B with Canvas, Scale Ventures and Index Ventures. How the heck to scale your product and engineering teams successfully. CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures. It does work.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. However, you might find these analytics limited and want to invest in a more dynamic solution. makes it a wise choice if you're on a budget, but costs skyrocket as you scale. percent and $0.30 percent and $0.30 percent and $0.30

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Baremetrics

JUNE 16, 2021

technique at repeatable scale. 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. Listen to it here!

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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.

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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). per transaction. Stripe reviews 2.

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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.

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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.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 11, 2013

The advantage of a solution like this is that it doesn't take a lot of time to develop so it saves you money and time, but the disadvantage is that it, well, doesn't scale and that you're accumulating technical debt. with very few concurrent users) but won't work with a larger number of users.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

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? What mistakes does Harry see many founders make when it comes to investing in their early brand?

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

If you don’t invest in your docs, you’re cutting your growth. Another guest, Paige Paquette built and scaled platform and developer marketing at Slack. That’s the key to scaling your user base. Merline Saintil has led teams at Intuit, Yahoo, PayPal, Adobe, Joyent, and Sun Microsystems. . Do that and you’re going to win.

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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].

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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.

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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.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale. Payment gateways you’ve likely encountered include PayPal , Stripe , and Amazon Pay. May require a legal presence in each country in which you wish to do business Will require a significant ongoing investment in security. Merchant account.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Once again, when we looked at October through December revenue compared to the annual monthly average, we did see increased sales in October, November, and December, with sales peaking most in November — and the peak is significantly higher on a global scale. This includes digital wallets like PayPal, credit cards, and wire transfers.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Scaling globally promises to be extremely lucrative for your business, however, you also run the risk of adding layers of complexity to your operation that, if not taken into account, can limit your business’ success. To help you get started, here are four localization tips that will help you scale globally.

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FastSpring

MAY 22, 2019

It’s easy to deliver digital products to customers abroad, but acquiring international customers and scaling a successful global business requires paying attention to other aspects of ecommerce you probably have overlooked until now. Selling your digital product internationally is a huge opportunity to expand your business.

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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.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. 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.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

According to Paysafe , 69 percent of Americans have multiple subscriptions, and 36 percent of those consumers believe they’ll invest in more soon. It’s also easier to scale your shipping requirements to suit growing demand. Still, if you want to scale your business, outsourcing could be better long-term.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Waiting to invest in retirement has its own hyperbolic curve, and it’s not very pretty. On a macroeconomic scale, hyperbolic discounting can have devastating results. On a smaller scale — conversion optimization, ecommerce, etc. — Many people save for retirement because there’s no immediate reward for saving for the future.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

However, if they start to cause issues, the faults will grow to a massive scale. Payment gateways you’ve likely encountered include PayPal , Stripe , and Amazon Pay. May require a legal presence in each country in which you wish to do business Will require a significant ongoing investment in security. Merchant account.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 5, 2021

A WordPress popup plugin can help to increase your return on the investment you’ve made in your website, your branding, and your products or services. It also integrates with payment providers and gateways including PayPal, Stripe, and Razorpay. I’ve chosen plugins that can scale with your business.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Going forward, while VCs clearly have dry powder , what’s unclear is their willingness to invest it. Some companies treat these as publicity stunts, talking a big vision, but not really investing. While Davos , Main Street , and Wall Street may differ on scale and scope, everyone agrees that the economy is turning.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Again, to make it very simple, think about that just like a PayPal, but for the enterprise, for the Fortune 500 in the world. That leads me to the last point, and I think in SaaS really cannot be underlined and often, I think most companies are probably under-investing in too late, and that is alliances. Why is this?

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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.

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Frontegg

MARCH 22, 2023

Initially, biometric authentication systems required large, upfront investments and were primarily used to protect critical systems and locations in defense and industry. Members of FIDO include Google, Apple, PayPal, Microsoft, Facebook and hundreds of other companies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Let’s start with the first one, which I think really is to prepare your core product for scale. So the first product we launched had an integration with PayPal that made it very easy for the event organizers to get all their ticket sales directly into their PayPal account as they were happening in real time.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. It’s really kind of interesting to be inside a financial institution that operates at that $2 trillion scale. How many of you guys sort of are on the investing side? Bill Clerico : Cool.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 6, 2019

A few tips to unlock virality and maintain low CACs at scale At Point Nine, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest in about half a dozen companies building products that are intrinsically viral (or have a built-in growth mechanism in their product). grow exponentially) while not spending more on acquiring customers. How do they do that?

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 27, 2020

It’s much easier that way, as you won’t need to invest in separate solutions. For instance, you can connect third-party payment processors offered by PayPal, Square POS, Shopify POS, and others. With Shopify’s POS system, you get a branded online store and can sell through online channels, including eBay, Instagram, and Amazon.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

People are like, of course I do invest in Adyen, it’s a misspelling of his name, he’s investing in himself. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? I also want to break a lot of the stigma. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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