SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns ? And more are coming: Putting aside oldies like Adobe and PayPal, now Atlassian , Snowflake , Shopify , Square , ServiceNow and Salesforce (maybe an oldie) all are worth over $100 Billion. Unicorns and even Decacorns are all we talk about in SaaS today. Does it make sense?

PayPal 293

PayPal SaaS Cloud Marketing 293

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2024

Is it: Customers Technology Go to market For example, some companies start in healthcare to build an EHR. You enter the market and discover nobody is looking to buy a new EHR. PayPal: Their Market Stayed the Same PayPal started as a payment encryption service, and now they’re a web-based payment processor.

Payment Services 250

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods PayPal 250

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Both the ACV and large customer contribution are increasing with time suggesting the company continues to focus up-market. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%.

Metrics 294

Metrics Benchmarks PayPal Enterprise 294

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally acceptable. But if you’re solely depending on PayPal, you could be leaving money on the table. Check out our list of the best Paypal alternatives that you need to have on your site today! PayPal, why it works.

Payment Methods 89

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 89

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Demandwell is redefining the space to drive results. There’s no reason you shouldn’t hire the brightest, most talented people.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 259

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? 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. Table of Contents.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

Especially if you spend 50% of your revenue on Sales & Marketing, it can take many years to really get profitable in SaaS. Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. Datadog: 78% Gross Margins. Zoom: 75% Gross Margins. This isn’t to say SaaS is always wildly profitable.

SaaS Payments 316

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 316

Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2024

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b Allium ingests & normalizes web3 data & works with leaders in the space including Visa to drive transparency into stablecoins, Stripe to fight fraud in payments, Grayscale to enable broader adoption of web3 in the public market, and Phantom to provide the most secure wallet for users.

Blockchain 243

Blockchain Merchant Services Payment Solutions Investment 243

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience. Reprise is the only complete demo creation platform that go-to-market teams turn to when they need to create live and guided demo experiences.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 261

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 261

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

A director of marketing experienced in one area (e.g., corporate marketing or growth hacking) insisting on being your CMO. The same with a double-stretch marketing leader. Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. A VP candidate stretching 2+ levels up the experience ladder.

Sales Hiring 339

Sales Hiring Growth Hacking PayPal Startup 339

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. VP Marketing (15 Employees). Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

CTO Hire 284

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 284

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2020

2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. 8: “Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years” A lot of lessons about marketing and scaling that are different than you might expect. #9:

Scale 246

Scale PayPal Cloud Startup 246

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Weighted by market cap, 80% of public Cloud and SaaS companies are still in the SF Bay Area: There are many ways to slice this data. You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. . — almost all of which are in the Bay Area, too. You could add in Microsoft, Amazon and Google and it would plummet to 50/50.

PayPal 230

PayPal SaaS Cloud Scaling 230

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Airdrops may be one of the most prevalent forms of marketing in web3. Today, UNI tokens’ market cap tops $5b. Marketers bet loss-leader campaigns like airdrops generate more revenue than the cost of the campaign. years payback on marketing dollars invested. Uni Airdrop Cumulative. That implies about 5.9

Blockchain 218

Blockchain PayPal Startup Pricing 218

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era 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. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system.

Software Review 264

Software Review Scale Systems Review Startup 264

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Zoom’s market cap grew over 4X to reflect that. Each of those, independently, are massive market cap drivers for their businesses as well.

Cloud 277

Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 277

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Several tools and apps offer this feature, including PayPal with their Pay in 4 option. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments. Familiar options like PayPal may increase consumer trust, which may increase sales.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services PayPal 145

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

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. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

Logan Bartlett, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, shares their yearly “State of the Market” report to understand what is and isn’t happening in venture capital today. 2024 is the tale of two markets, so let’s get into some of the data. That 71% compares to only 19% for the rest of the market. It was 10.8

Venture Capital 300

Venture Capital Management Scale AI 300

Neil Patel

AUGUST 30, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Having Gen Z representatives on your marketing team ( or in the firms you use ) will help you hit the right tone. This is why offering BNPL options, like PayPal’s enterprise BNPL , is crucial for attracting the Gen Z market. Here are five ways to attract and keep Gen Z customers.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods PayPal Social Media Advertising 145

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal. With PayPal, You’re Not Automatically Sales Tax and VAT Compliant The biggest issue was tax compliance. The problem?

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With more customers expecting a hyper-personalized, real-time experience, the demand for AI technology in marketing has never been greater. It makes sense, then, that so many marketing AI tools and software are targeting the conversion funnel. Here is a deeper look at nine of the top AI tools for successful marketing funnels.

AI 145

AI Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

Startup 293

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 293

Neil Patel

MAY 7, 2021

One of a for-profit business’s best investments is often their online marketing strategy. Let’s take a look at how nonprofit marketing strategy is different from for-profit strategy and how nonprofit corporations may be able to better reach their goals by further leveraging digital marketing. Think about your messaging.

Payment Methods 141

Payment Methods Marketing Social Media Sales Recruiting 141

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Enough not to churn. In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Hubspot sells to SMBs and just passed $1B in ARR.

Business Model 293

Business Model Scale Business PayPal 293

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. “How to Market to Customers Small, Medium, Large & Extra Large” A SaaStr classic with the prior VPM of Box, Lauren Vacarrello. A classic already.

Scale 211

Scale PayPal Investment Scaling 211

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. If you’re a company looking to get started with content marketing, this can be tough.

Content Marketing 140

Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Sales Hiring 140

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

Underserved Markets for SaaS Companies with NextGen Venture Partners, Precursor, Unusual Ventures and Backstage Capital. Underserved Markets for SaaS Companies with NextGen Venture Partners, Precursor, Unusual Ventures and Backstage Capital. CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures.

Trends 240

Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 240

FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Market options have been opening up for both publishers and players in the mobile games industry thanks to shifting laws and regulations around the world. cases against Apple and Google , the EU Digital Markets Act , and recent regulatory laws in Japan , for starters. More details on those below.)

Merchant Services 148

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 148

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Square PayPal FIS Stripe Payline Data Fiserv BitPay Adyen Dharma Merchant Services Fattmerchant. Digital wallets like PayPal, Google Pay or Apple Pay have become extremely popular. 2 – PayPal Commerce Platform Review — The Best for Individuals & Low-Volume Sellers. The Top 10 Credit Card Processing Companies.

Payment Services 144

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Technical Review 144

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023. There are many good products in the market that provide you with all of the features you need, but we will only focus on Quicken software and Intuit’s QuickBooks Online.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

PayPal for Business: Available on Major eCommerce Platforms. They previously experimented with platforms like Stripe and PayPal. With FastSpring, you’ll be supported by multiple payment processors that specialize in global transactions and accept the most common payment methods around the world — including PayPal and Amazon Pay.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features 147

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

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. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 213

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 213

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Affiliate marketing is a way for online publishers (including bloggers) to make passive income by recommending products and services they love. Amazon Associates is one of the most trusted affiliate marketing platforms where anyone can start an income stream from the comfort of their home. Just make the products look irresistible!

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Revenue PayPal 145

USIO

JUNE 11, 2025

Misaligned Check Placement Your carefully crafted marketing flyer ends up folded inside the check itself. Verifies envelope matching so the right check + marketing insert lands in the right envelope. Send to Venmo/Paypal And more! Common horror stories: Wrong Insert, Wrong Envelope A vendor receives someone else’s royalty check.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payment Features Healthcare Payments 130

FastSpring

JULY 25, 2019

One question that gets asked frequently, is when online businesses should consider switching from accepting payments through a payment solution like PayPal and transitioning over to a comprehensive ecommerce platform. For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally fine!

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services PayPal 60

FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether you’re a game developer looking to capture more of the Apple market – and take advantage of the new rules under the Digital Markets Act – or if you’ve been selling on Mac for years, this integration offers a quicker, and more familiar, checkout process for Apple users. Learn more about Apple Pay here.

Payment Methods 159

Payment Methods Payments Payment Services PayPal 159