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? Funding options by stage of growth.

Venture Capital 61

Venture Capital Finance Payments Revenue 61

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. It’s a clear indicator that businesses want to expand their offerings and capabilities.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

SaaS Payments 141

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 141

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

Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

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.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. Buffer spent $3.3

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping. Beginning Stage: At the start, you’ll either not have any revenue or far less revenue than is sustainable.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 40

ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Let’s take a look how upgrades/new revenue are doing: The MRR Gain Index is up 1.5% We’re seeing new revenue coming in and less customers churning.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). 85% NRR.

Payment Methods 337

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 337

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn 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. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 147

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

The VC Fresco Capital is based in three key locations: Palo Alto, Hong Kong and Tokyo. It provides funding internationally to remarkable companies with strong human capital. Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

Scale 190

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 190

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

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

Enterprise 10

Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

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. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. It made the rounds in tech circles online. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth.

CTO Hire 65

CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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. Typically founders will pay 3%-7% of monthly revenue until they have repaid the fund 3x the amount invested.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online.

Sales Recruiting 175

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 175

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. They wanted to build something really big.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. They either work to manage things via spreadsheets, attempt to build their own, or try using a product management platform for this despite the poor fit.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April.

Part-Time VPE 177

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 177

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. 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.

Technical Review 206

Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 206

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. As if it’s a 50/50 call. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. As if it’s a 50/50 call. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue.

Investment 170

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 170

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

Payment Methods 55

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

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 156

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 156

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. Notey Labs.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

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. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136