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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. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Airbnb handles the payments and gets you a guest, and now your rent is covered for the next couple of months. That’s it.

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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. When you move all of that responsibility to a third party, then you can really focus on your core product.

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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? One of the criticisms of SMB software is that each customer can only provide so much revenue. BILL started much heavier on subscription, but has really leaned into payments over the last several years. It’s a transaction business.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Average salary: $105,761/yr.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. So I knew nothing about building a card product. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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Conversion Rate Optimization For SaaS Companies: A PMM Guide

User Pilot

TL;DR A SaaS conversion rate refers to the percentage of visitors who take a desired action on the website or in-app. For SaaS companies, this isn’t just about website sign-ups but also in-app conversions, leading to paying users, unlike e-commerce, where a conversion might be a purchase.