Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. We’re very metrics focused as you’ll see below.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Handling an increasing percentage of this large payment volume has been a massive driver of Jobber’s rise from its humble beginnings to becoming the leading operations management platform for home service businesses. Vertical SaaS companies that generate payment revenue on top of a SaaS subscription fee are one example.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

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. What we love about it: Business, customer and financial metrics are evenly cited multiple times in the description.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Paying monthly for your software needs can be a lot better on your cash flows than buying a lot of expensive packages outright. If you both provide valuable software, maybe this is a good way to reduce your cash expense. Pay suppliers that offer an early payment discount first. Cisco Systems Inc. Dell Computers eBay Inc.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. We’re very metrics focused as you’ll see below.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

Christoph elaborates on how a long-term, strong economic market with low interest rates led to an influx of capital in the system. Renewal, payment, happy days. Prior to founding Salesroom, Daria was an investor at Oxx, a growth-stage B2B software investment fund. The result: a bubble. Click here to watch this point.

Trends 52

Trends SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 52

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. This capital can also greatly accelerate the progress and trajectory of the business with resources that others may not get for years down the road. Venture Capital.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

Technical Review 192

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 192

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I work with Dawn Capital. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Then we deploy the capital to build. Evgenia : Hi.

New CTO 146

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 146

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

With a few million dollars in ARR, improvements to how you manage working capital, credit controls, payments, various currencies, etc. he/she will create the model/plan based on your input, adjust/fine-tune it based on your input, and will be able to create monthly actuals vs. budget and a rolling forecast).

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: And so, I think for a lot of states and regulatory agencies and businesses that have been pushing back to enable remote work, they’re going to have to change a lot of stuff and that’s going to take … A lot of investment’s going to happen in software. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

Investment 159

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Account expansion is often a more telling metric at this stage as those companies with high-growth potential will often see off-cycle expansion just a quarter or two into a new customer subscription – the proverbial land and expand. . All the typical SaaS metrics can be indicative of potential … though some less so at this stage.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

So what’s the solution? As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Payment Methods Payment Solutions Development Team Review 199

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136