FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Buyers typically perform a thorough evaluation process before purchasing and are quite sure that the software will meet their needs when they deploy. How did we get here? Let’s consider an example.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 73

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?

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Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

Access to Funding Venture capital funding is a critical part of the startup journey, and non-compliance can hinder a startup’s ability to acquire the resources necessary for growth and expansion. Adhering to regulations prevents duplicated efforts, reduces errors, and guarantees efficient and effective processes.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. What is RBF?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

How to show different revenue streams in vertical SaaS A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Jobber announced (besides a $100M Series D) that its 200,000 customers — small businesses that provide home services like lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, and painting — have earned $13 billion in revenue in 2022.

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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.

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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.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. What is RBF?

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Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Beginning Stage: At the start, you’ll either not have any revenue or far less revenue than is sustainable. Customer-Funded Stage: At some point, your revenue stream will get to the point where customers can finally fund the day-to-day operations of the business. Focus as much as possible on your burgeoning revenue stream.

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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.

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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 Reilly Chase of HostiFi.

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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. Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine SaaS products are often first on the chopping block when companies affected by shrinking revenue look to slow their burn rate. The result: a bubble.

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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.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

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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.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. This can sometimes be underestimated by thousands but you should not be scared to make the first steps.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. It’s pretty incredible in fact that both these two businesses can hit $700m and $1B in ARR, both growing 30%, neither able to clip the wings of the other. Over $500,000 revenue per employee. 30% of its revenue outside the U.S.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. But after adding more credit cards and payments, and coming out of Covid … boom!! based revenue.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question, as the right timing depends on a couple of factors, including how much capital you’ve raised, how fast you’re growing, and if one of the founders has prior experience with or a talent for financials. From my own experience of joining the finance department of a startup in year 10 with ca.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders. They were doing $4.6M

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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. .

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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.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Today, we're pushing for discounted plans, adopting more flexible payment terms, and turning your product into a marketing channel. Our friend Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView —the expansion stage venture capital firm—says it’s time to revisit your pricing. Pricing, let's talk. ProfitWell featured user.

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Payments Technical Review Scale Venture Capital 59

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.

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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?

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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. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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

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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.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209