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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

This is the same advice they give YC companies to become much more successful at fundraising when they’re pre-product market fit. Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

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14 User Behavior Trends For SaaS in 2024

User Pilot

The former tracks trends for software users , while a consumer behavior trend mainly refers to online shopping, such as buy-now-pay-later payment methods. Predictive analytics are driving business decisions such as product and marketing strategy. Personalized experiences are becoming standard in the SaaS world.

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10 Learnings on High-Velocity Sales to SMB with Gorgias CEO and VP of Sales

SaaStr

Gorgias, an eCommerce customer service platform, discovered that their customers’ main pain points were a lack of centralized customer support channels and poor integrations. For example, Gorgias knew they were targeting not only eCommerce but also customer service. Firstly, payment should be easy for customers. Make It Simple!

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

SaaStr

Even a stretch one before you have two reps that hit quota because a head of sales’ job is to hire reps three through 300, not to create product market fit. There’s another old classic SaaStr post, don’t hire the wrong VP marketing, you’ll just get a bunch of pens with your blue logos on it.

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How To Optimize Your Landing Page For Better PPC

Unbounce

PPC is a method of digital advertising in which you aim to get your ads to rank as the highest result displayed for user searches, and you, as the advertiser, pay a fee each time it’s clicked. It can also appear on websites that have similar content and keywords to your business. Image courtesy of Bloomberg Wealth.

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5 Funnel Analysis Examples For SaaS Companies (+ Process & Tools)

User Pilot

From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Review funnel.