Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. First, the ecosystem decides that infrastructure payments should occur in stablecoins - like USDC or UST. Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app. It’s too much complexity for a simple static blog.

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Payment Solutions GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup Payment Features 257

FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services AI Search 142

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Forbes , “mobile payments are increasingly being used by U.S. Not only are there a number of ways your customers could be using their mobile devices to give payments, but you as a business owner could be leveraging mobile devices to accept them as well. shoppers as customers become more comfortable with the technology.”

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pumped up profits, with less heavy lifting How Payrix gave a growing, health and fitness industry software strength to compete. That simple idea eventually led to fitDEGREE, Nick’s growing software startup for class-based fitness studios that want a more community-driven way to manage their local business.

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Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 130

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software. 3 Payment Processors.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 128

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 97

USIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Results Earned approximately $35,000 in additional revenue after integrating Went from processing $0 to $7.5mm in transactions in 12 + months Gained competitive advantage by offering new and easy-to-use mobile payment solution Became one of the leading booster club software providers on the market to date.

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Payment Services Payments PayFac as a Service Payment Solutions 130

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While running my financial modeling software business Flightpath (Now Forecast+) , we often get the question “Which SaaS billing platform should we use” from our customers. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Software Review 52

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

They weren’t a 3H startup. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. But they often have much lower gross margins than pure software. Yes, HubSpot didn’t get to 100% NRR until well past $30m ARR. But we aren’t all HubSpot. And even there — they were still very disciplined in the burn. can be great.

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Churn Startup SaaS Payments Venture Capital 247

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2024

Through interactive roundtable discussions and refreshment breaks, you’ll be able to share ideas, brainstorm solutions to your most pressing challenges, and form meaningful connections. We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster.

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Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 141

SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They can complete tasks, view status, send updates, make notes, and more —through the portal, email, or mobile app.

Merchant Services 254

Merchant Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 254

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2024

Ready to join Europe’s biggest startup and tech event with the leading startups, investors, executives, and media from 174 countries? We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster. We’d love to talk with you in person!

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 97

Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

A robust recurring billing software can make all the difference for your subscription business but win 2024 we are taking no gambles. Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

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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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 133

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode of Growth Stage, Carl will dives into his experience running acquisitions of SMB software businesses, including: His thoughts on what makes a software company a good target for an acquisition by a brand. So as probably most listeners know, WordPress is a content management system for building websites.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 136

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 21, 2024

But what exactly are these services, and should your startup business be using them? In this blog post, we’ll try to answer these questions and explain which solutions may be helpful to your business. One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it. What Is SaaS?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 40

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. A customer buys a license for your software, and they get the product (either through a download, a CD or even more old school—floppy disks). Enter the world of SaaS billing systems. how you receive the payment).

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Payment Solutions Merchant Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that being said, if you have the world’s best payroll app, you can absolutely still talk to Craft. Co-pilots — Co-pilots are where startups and founders can do new things that big companies won’t go after. Pre-AI SaaS — Pre-AI SaaS apps get turbo-charged in value by adding AI functionality. Software isn’t going away.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. Leveraging a cash flow modelling software will help you simplify the process even further. In that post, you’ll find everything you need to create a financial model that helps you operate your business.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 78

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free. Square Fees: 3.5

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

DeepStream

AUGUST 17, 2020

To some degree, this reluctance can be understood: anyone who’s had to go through the nightmare of lengthy implementation processes only to find themselves stuck with impossible-to-use software, would rather keep things simple, and at a human scale. . This is all about the price, including payment terms and the validity period of said quote.

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Payment Solutions Software Payment Services Automotive 52

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

The SMBTech economy is very different from enterprise software, and there is massive opportunity to capture it. PST — Jeff Richards, GGV Capital Managing Director, and Tiffany Luck, GGV Capital Partner, share what it takes to win as a SMBTech startup in today’s economy. There are over 400M small businesses worldwide.

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Scale SMB Merchant Services Payment Methods 216

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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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. Yet, I see most “Hybrid SaaS” startups ignore this and spend as if they had 80% margins. They don’t.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments SMB 223

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2022

With the summer of Defi behind us and a new year for web3, I wondered which categories of web3 startups generate the most revenue. Gaming, Wallets, Infrastructure, Consumer Apps, Insurance and Asset Management chart negligible share. Exchanges place second. Right behind, NFT exchanges rank third. Revenue Share. Market Cap Share.

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Payments Revenue Payment Solutions Blockchain 363

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2018

How long should you let a customer use your software before they sign a contract? Unfortunately, most SaaS startups don’t have enough samples to reach a statistically significant answer. Company A in the data above has a linear customer payment rate. You could offer them a 7 day free trial. Or 14 or 21 or 30 or 90.

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Payment Solutions Software SaaS Acquisition 196

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. In this article, we’ll discuss and compare these CRM solutions. What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? How to choose the right CRM software for your business?

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Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments Scale 52

Baremetrics

MAY 16, 2021

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. 1 Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Start your 14-day Baremetrics free trial now!

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Payments Forecasting Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 80

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Are you a startup founder, employee or enthusiast? If so, join FastSpring at the Austin Startup Week November 6-10th! Started in 2011, Austin Startup Week is a celebration and showcase of everything entrepreneurial in Austin. Don’t miss out on the biggest party in Austin since 2011- Startup Crawl!

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Merchant Services Startup Payment Methods Payment Services 88

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. It’s one of the top 3 pain points of mid-market and enterprise CFOs.

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Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Scale 223

FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. These include how to account for local pricing and preferred local payment methods, varied buyer behaviors, how to display checkouts with local languages, and much more — all of which can be different for every country you want to sell into.

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Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services 78

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Web Summit gathers policymakers, heads of state and the founders and CEOs of technology companies and fast-growing startups to ask a simple question: Where to next? The Atlantic says that Web Summit is “where the future goes to be born”, and the New York Times that Web Summit assembles “a grand conclave of the tech industry’s high priests”.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services 146

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Going global is tougher in payments and fintech.

Payments 283

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 283