SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. What does this mean for startups and tech companies? I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 159

User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. For established SaaS companies, the average churn is between 5% to 7% per year, early-stage startups should expect an average annual churn of 10% to 15%. Monthly recurring revenue. Poor onboarding.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products.

Sales Hiring 98

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company.

Payment Solutions 52

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Like, you’re literally on the floor like crippled with crying just like two years of your hard work, or whatever, you know, you’re like, ah, and then you get a phone call at that exact moment. It really took a few pivots, and even name changes to get just the go to market efforts and product market fit right.

Payment Solutions 111

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

What’s the next milestone disrupting the market? Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere.

Sales Hiring 59

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? Products Are Finding New Growth in the Opposite Segment. And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company.

B2C 146

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. In an integration platform, the product integrates with other types of software the product’s customers already use. The Types of Platforms. Supply Value Prop.

Payments 56

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Can one person buy via a credit card or will multiple stakeholders need to be involved? Goal of website.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. New Product Value and S-Curve Sequencing In my previous post, I talked about S-Curves. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Choose the right one for your SaaS startup. 6 Essential skills for SaaS inside sales team to boost product’s sales. CHOOSE THE RIGHT ONE FOR YOUR SAAS STARTUP. Your startup has finally landed on its feet, but something still seems off? The cloud application service market remains a huge challenge for all newcomers.

SaaS Payments 157

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 157

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this Mucker Growth session, Kyle Poyar from OpenView delves into the critical topic of pricing for SaaS startups, aiming to rectify prevailing mistakes in your pricing strategies. Optimizing SaaS pricing is an ongoing process, and one that most startup founders struggle to perfect. Achieving product-market-price fit is paramount.

Payments 59

Payments Pricing SaaS Payments Startup 59

User Pilot

MARCH 14, 2024

You want to trigger in-app experiences based on analytics – Heap doesn’t offer built-in tools to personalize the user experience based on product analytics and insights. A product adoption platform like Userpilot can help you bypass the process of finding the right engagement tools.

Technical Review 52

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Basically, every user interaction is an event, and this can be everything that the user does in the app or on the website, for example, clicking on a button, completing a form, viewing a page, closing a pop-up window, etc. Userpilot is a product growth platform that drives user activation , feature adoption, and expansion revenue.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. A SaaS company maintains responsibility for the servers, database (and the data they contain), and other software that allow their product to be accessed and used. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

From the founder’s point of view, in the upmarket, a lot of founders will survive because the market is great. And it is extremely especially important in a market where certain aspects become more important because we’re, in a downturn. Timelines’ longer for fundraising for closing customers and payments get delayed.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Payment Methods Travel Development Team Review 143

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

MAY 12, 2024

With Userpilot, you’ll be able to track both product usage and user behavior to get a holistic view of how customers use your product — which will guide future development, improve the user experience, and inform your growth efforts. Appcues is a robust product adoption and user onboarding platform for web and mobile apps.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

Payments 52

Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Pricing plans of Heap.

SaaS Payments 52

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So, I started in ’99 and at that time there was nobody who even understand what a startup were in Denmark. Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. You pay a subscription.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

Pricing 135

Pricing SaaS Payments Payments SaaS 135

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. And that’s been really fun during the pandemic.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Reduce failed payments.

Blockchain 90

Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Baremetrics

APRIL 30, 2020

It may not be a metric you highlight in the next board meeting, but it can narrow your market focus and lead your sales team to the right segment. It can be a strong signal of product market fit. A by-product is that it will also help your cashflow since you’ll get all that cash up front. It depends on who you sell to.

Retention 95

Retention Metrics Payment Methods SaaS Payments 95

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. Which was that pioneering inside sales motion driving a lot through online and through WebEx at the time.

Underperforming Technical Team 158

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

This post will help you wrap your head around the main concepts in product analytics, and how to implement them to grow your product! Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics? It’s the tools and methods you use to understand user behavior within your app. Efficiency.

SaaS Payments 90

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payments Underperforming Technical Team 90

User Pilot

JULY 6, 2023

We know it’s perfect for customer success and product marketing because we built it for it. Userpilot brings more than the ability to trigger NPS surveys inside your app, you can also create onboarding flows , collect user behavior data , and give access to advanced product analytics —everything to nurture product growth.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review Payments 98

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

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. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. What about Customer Success in early stage Startups?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. How does Harry think about when is the right time for a startup to raise VC funding? Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. So I started a website in college. Sam’s Corner [39:02].

Leadership 63

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