SaaStr

JULY 31, 2020

Founded in 2015, Chorus operates a SaaS platform that provides valuable insights from conversations – say with calls, video conferences and emails — for revenue teams. Last year, the company doubled its headcount, tripled revenue and landed on G2’s Top 100 Global Software list. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

Sales Hiring 209

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

To help you with your search, we’ve compiled a list of sales leadership opportunities from around our community to help connect leading startups with the best candidates. . InEvent , a virtual and hybrid events platform, is looking for a VP of Sales to bring their cloud-based products to the emergent hybrid event market. Apply here.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 14, 2020

Using third-party integrations to bring company-wide customer data into a central hub that’s designed to automate and optimize a Customer Success Manager’s output is when Customer Success really becomes a force to be reckoned with. What are the benefits of integrating with Customer Success software? Who owns it? Who owns it?

Payments 87

Payments Payment Solutions Customer Success Software Review 87

Neil Patel

MARCH 12, 2021

Like any business, creating an app requires laying the groundwork before launch. Here’s a five-step guide for getting ready to launch your app, including how to do your research, ways to monetize your app , and what to include in your business plan. How are they monetized? Build an App Step 1: Do Market Research.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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FastSpring

MARCH 20, 2023

Release Notes is our monthly highlight of our great features coming out on the FastSpring platform so you’ll be able to pick up and go with the latest features for your store. New and Improved Webhook Status Reporting As we go into 2023, we are striving to deliver improvements to make our platform more developer friendly.

User Experience 81

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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 doesn’t necessarily mean they care about a ton of users or revenue, although they like that, too. Let’s use Airbnb as an example. That’s it.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

However, as they are multi-purpose in nature, you cannot expect these features to not be as in-depth and robust as more specialist platforms. Content management platforms. Whether you are a business writer or journalist, maintaining a personal blog is important. eCommerce platforms. An example of an information website.

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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. You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making regarding financing deals, from revenue-based financing (RBF) to term loans and lines of credit. What should VCs make of revenue-based financing? Turning revenue-based financing into pre-VC growth.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

We started Brightback in 2018 with a vision to automate customer retention for digital subscriptions to improve the consumer experience throughout the journey, deliver measurable revenue ROI to the retention manager via Brightback’s churn deflection funnel, and free up product managers to focus on core services and acquire more customers.

Payments 59

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. How did you manage that?

Payment Solutions 144

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

6M to $10M of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) or ~10 Customer Success Mangers (CSMs). But the best Sales and Marketing teams (which also have a relationship component) use well-defined processes and data integrations to drive their operations. A Customer Success platform allows CSMs to manage more accounts at a higher level.

Customer Success 90

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Totango

JULY 15, 2022

Detecting and protecting at-risk customers is important even in the best of times, but it is especially critical during times of economic instability when your current customer base is your greatest (and perhaps only) source of dependable revenue growth. . Total revenue at risk. Percent of revenue at risk.

Payment Methods 84

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 84

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. The Value Of CRM Integration [22:24].

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2022

Payhawk is the financial system of tomorrow that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, cash management, and pre-accounting into one integrated experience to give you maximum control and visibility over your business spend. That’s why we give boards and leadership teams an elegant solution that simplifies governance.

Payments 35

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Additionally, unlike small CRMs, enterprise CRM platforms are usually able to connect with many other tools. Lastly, an enterprise CRM platform is able to support more than just the sales organization.

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 84

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Do you want to start a blog to share your extensive knowledge and thought leadership with the world? E-commerce Platforms. As an e-commerce business, you want capabilities that let you list products, accept multiple types of payments, categorize goods, and allow you to track backend inventory in real-time.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 145

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Subscription based and fixed pricing were two payment methods that had benefits but also major drawbacks such as: flexibility for the client as well as the company. To keep a consistent revenue stream, your billing system must adapt to shifting business circumstances. This covers your approach to billing.

Pricing 52

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust your revenue forecast Base-Case scenario Worst-Case scenario Review bank balance before expense adjustments 4. Evaluate your new plan Expense breakdown Comparison to 2019 Comparison to 2020 Target Quarterly view % of Revenue 6. Other things to consider Loans Payment terms Annual plans 7.

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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.

Scale 183

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 183

OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Company Maturity.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments 40

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re not sure if FastSpring is the right payment system and merchant of record (MOR) for your B2C and/or B2B SaaS company, we want to know what questions and concerns you have so we can take that into consideration as we continue building out our features and products.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 124

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

Scale 148

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 148

Aysling

JULY 29, 2021

They are limiting – they limit the vision and forecasting of company leadership. It can handle payments, reporting, HR and freelancer management. But Aysling can do so much more than act as a spreadsheet replacement, and do it all on one cloud-based platform. Plus, there are many integrations you can use with Aysling.

Payment Services 40

Payment Services Payment Features Payments Payment Methods 40

ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

This book is an invaluable read for those building a company or in a leadership position. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. Ben also created the Cultural Leadership Fund , connecting the greatest cultural leaders to advance more African Americans into technology. How are churn and new revenue trending over time?

Payments 52

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. Leadership matters. The nature of the business changed, so why shouldn’t the multiple change with it?

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

Neil Patel

JULY 21, 2021

Whether it’s quarterly seminars or yearly upskilling boot camps, working with companies like Sandler Training and Dale Carnegie can help you establish an impactful thought leadership and corporate training franchise business model. Companies can also work with a fixed-fee payment structure for each franchise location.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Business Payments 121

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable. Perhaps they changed course, entered a new industry, or simply encountered problems with generating enough revenue and had to reduce expenses. Surveys may also be integrated directly into the cancellation page.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 52

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

While companies like Amazon, Alphabet, Tencent or Adobe might not label what they do a formal “strategy process,” their success owes much to tried and true principles of strategy development. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. It also involves adopting a new mindset.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If I had 1 mentor, just 1, Who said: If you are at $10m ARR, Growing 100%, With 150% net revenue retention, With 80% viral and free lead acquisiton, And 50+ NPS, Then, You have already build a unicorn-in-waiting. This CXO asked me if I could help him find a few good advisors to help them on the revenue side. If i'd had just 1.

Scale 348

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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

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