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. How Messente scaled with no funding. One way to scale: be location-agnostic. Note: If you’re expanding to new regions, we can help. What Is Messente? Expand with your customers.

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 126

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The barbers still wanted cash payments too. So, while a customer might have scheduled a haircut through the Squire app on a mobile phone, they’d still have to stop somewhere to withdraw cash to pay for their haircut. “We Squire debated expanding its ICP to enterprise – think hair salon chains – hoping to scale faster.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 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. Whether founders want to admit it or not, less-than-ideal funding sources like personal savings and credit cards are more popular than you’d think. Buffer spent $3.3

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Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. Needless to say, this is strong evidence that you don’t need millions and millions of dollars in venture capital to build a large scale SaaS application. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. I believe you, it’s true, but venture capital is a weird niche thing that… Frankly, venture capital at any stage only wants to invest in folks that are already off to the races. Here’s my burn rate.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Perhaps the most interesting thing is just how similar both these website-builder-plus-ecommerce companies are. It’s growing at the same rate (~30%), booming from ecommerce (+78% for Squarespace, +60% for Wix). Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. 85% NRR.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 330

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. Some time around the $0.5–1.5

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Notable mentions that have helped the Asian SaaS space are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Eight Roads Ventures and Intel Capital. In May 2019 we are landing in Hong Kong to help the local ecosystem (as well as those looking to expand into it) get a fast track to growth and scale. Stage: Venture Capital.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

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.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 137

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. . When you land an enterprise client, you must be prepared to scale your business to meet their needs.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

I’ve come to believe that there are only two scenarios where it undeniably makes sense to raise venture capital: You’re building something so capital intensive that it can’t possibly be built without massive amounts of money. If the second describes you, well done—venture capital may very well make sense for you.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

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. Did they come through a paid channel?

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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

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

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. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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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.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 165

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. I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 195

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Jason Lemkin: Yep.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

ChurnZero secured $7 million in a Series A funding round in 2019 led by Baird Capital and supported by returning investors like Grotech Ventures. Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investments in strategically targeted sectors around the world.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus’ Approach to VC [23:59]. Sam’s Corner [41:10].

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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. Series A money is to fund the growth energy and the Series B money and C the expansion and the scale up. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so. Evgenia : Hi.

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Notey Labs create digital solutions to help companies handle international online space. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. ViSenze recommends items to customers on websites and social media.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Logical Customer Segmentation: The Key to Scaling Customer Success. How do I target my customers when they’re not online? Customer Success At Your Expense Hurts Everyone.

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