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. FastSpring automatically changes the language, currencies, and payment methods of the checkout experience based on where a customer is located. David used the U.S.

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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. We spoke to Lauri Kinkar , Messente’s co-founder, about how they did it. What Is Messente?

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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. Compliance requires creating security standards, implementing controls, monitoring systems, and remediating any issues.

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Payment Services compliance Startup SaaS Payments 52

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. Micro startup acquisitions.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. How Bigfoot Evaluates Initial-Scale SaaS.

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Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. How Bigfoot Evaluates Initial-Scale SaaS.

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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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Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Expenses It’s cheaper than ever before to build software—3 years into building Outseta, we’ve spent $66,326 on the business. Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. 2017 2018 2019 Total. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

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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. This capital can also greatly accelerate the progress and trajectory of the business with resources that others may not get for years down the road. Venture Capital.

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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. You can go to SaaStr.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

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. The goal is to design a site where potential customers can quickly connect emotionally and find conversions like shopping carts, checkout, and secure payment options.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. What makes things tricky is, first, the uncertainty of how your CACs will develop at increasing scale and of how your churn rate will develop over time. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 106

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. Sometimes, the self-serve / PLG engine stalls out at a certain scale. Fintech is the engine of growth at scale.

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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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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

With a few million dollars in ARR, improvements to how you manage working capital, credit controls, payments, various currencies, etc. he/she will create the model/plan based on your input, adjust/fine-tune it based on your input, and will be able to create monthly actuals vs. budget and a rolling forecast).

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Squarespace may be more design-focused, Wix the somewhat more cost-effective solution. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites. But it doesn’t monetize the payments themselves directly very much.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 330

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. What makes things tricky is, first, the uncertainty of how your CACs will develop at increasing scale and of how your churn rate will develop over time. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

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

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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Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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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. Wistia is certainly not the first tech company to suffer from over-scaling, but their story is both unique and illuminating for a number of reasons.

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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

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

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Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

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Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Michael and his team created a lucrative reward system for startups , which they were able to do through group purchasing (taking advantage of a vertical that allowed them to buy software packages). What actually made me most comfortable was when they said they were building their system like a ledger, so it can’t be messed up.

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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.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

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. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. 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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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

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. I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 195

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.

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Payments Technical Review Scale Venture Capital 59

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. 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. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software.

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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. I work with Dawn Capital. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us.

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

About Angus Davis & Foundation Capital [1:45]. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. He’s a venture capitalist but he’s been an active entrepreneur executive and investor in the internet industry since its commercialization. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Sam’s Corner [41:10].

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? 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. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software.

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