SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2020

2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. 4: “Brand Demand: Creating Clarity and Driving Growth Amidst Uncertainty with Microsoft for Startups” We don’t think enough about brand. It’s enduring. #5:

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

349: Startups can get messy. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. And, wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could turn this s**t show into an army where instead of having this startup chaos, we could get the team working in lock step. Especially in growth. I was the CEO. billion dollars.

Software Review 188

Software Review Scale Systems Review Startup 188

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whether it was our interview with Podium’s Eric Rea on how he scaled with a team outside the Bay Area before it was really considered an option, or TripAction’s Megan Eisenberg on how to prioritize trade-offs in marketing without sacrificing pipeline, we’ve covered the gambit of relevant topics throughout the year. .

Scale 244

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling B2B 244

Chart Mogul

APRIL 27, 2023

After years of using generic CRMs that are ill-suited for our product-led B2B SaaS model, we’re using ChartMogul CRM, the only CRM tailor-made for SaaS sales teams like us. Even comparing conversion rates in our self-serve funnel with our sales-led motion took a lot of Excel magic. All the data would be in one place.

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Scale Forecasting PayPal Subscription 52

Teamgate

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The point of running a business is to make a profit through sales of your product or services. Digital marketing allows us to generate more leads, reach out to wider market space, and gain information that could help us develop a smarter business strategy. percent of cold calls end up with a successful sale. Visual content.

Scale 86

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Facilitation 86

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2020

Michael is a member of Revenue Collective, but perhaps most importantly, he’s the chief sales and strategy officer for Compass, that fast-growing real estate behemoth. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale. Michael talks about how he does that at scale and how he thinks about scale.

Scale 113

Scale Scaling VP of Engineering Technical Review 113

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Along the way, they’ve become something of a leading authority on subscription businesses.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). Founder/CEO.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2020

1: “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” With David Sacks. This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. Let’s take a look on what you need to get caught up on! #1:

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 225

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

What It Really Takes to go from Series A to Series B with Canvas, Scale Ventures and Index Ventures. How the heck to scale your product and engineering teams successfully. The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks. CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures.

Trends 210

Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 210

Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

Read more: Strategize to Scale Subscriptions and Make Sustainable Business Growth 2. Choice of Billing Options Churn usually happens because of repeated failed payments. SubscriptionFlow can be just that for you by offering you the choice to integrate with some of the market-leading payment gateways like Stripe , PayPal , etc.

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 192

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. When trying to grow a SaaS organization at scale, the idea of manually checking every single transaction in a spreadsheet is impractical. Securing payments.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 169

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At some point in your journey, you’ll need to think about your exit strategy from your SaaS startup. It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1.

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SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. 1 digital dashboard for SaaS teams, startups, and online businesses. It's the No.1 Try Baremetrics free. percent and $0.30

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Features 98

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

I’m asked with some frequency which startup sectors are booming. In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed. Mobile messaging and big data are knee-jerk reactions at this point.

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Merchant Services Payments Point of Sale Startup 100

FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To learn more about how FastSpring can help you scale quickly, sign up for a free account or request a demo today. All revenue is yours, but FastSpring is the liable party for the sale. FastSpring takes the lead to solve the issue on your behalf. Contact our sales team for information on markup rates.). And more…. …

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payments 146

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We’ve dissected the Baremetrics vs. Stripe debate, as well as Stripe vs. Braintree , Chargebee , Chargify , Gumroad , PayPal , Recurly , Shopify , Zuora , and ProfitWell. Baremetrics charges only one fee for everything, where the fee is on a sliding scale depending on your MRR. We’ve compared Chargebee to Recurly and Zuora.

Payments 94

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments PayPal 94

Stax

JANUARY 23, 2024

Examining reviews of Xero vs QuickBooks Online can often lead to more confusion. The former will deal with purchase orders and ringing up sales at the register, while the latter will need capabilities related to invoicing and managing client records. Both are comprehensive tools that tick all the foundational boxes. for ease of use 8.1

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Features Software Review 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Checkout (including payment processing and gathering sales tax, GST, and VAT). Reconciling payment with accounts and remitting sales tax, GST, and VAT. To learn more about how FastSpring can help you scale quickly, sign up for a free account or request a demo today. So, SaaS companies can no longer ignore sales tax and VAT laws.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Services 137

The Angel VC

JANUARY 11, 2013

This really struck a chord with me because it's a very important concept for many startups but I didn't have a term for it until I read Chris' post. In some cases the success of these hacks can be a make-or-break factor for a startup. Recently I stumbled on the term "unscalable hack", in a blog post by Chris Dixon.

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PayPal Payment Solutions Scale Payment Methods 119

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This summer, many VCs and startup pundits started suggesting that the key to success is simply winning the “hearts and minds” of a community. Another guest, Paige Paquette built and scaled platform and developer marketing at Slack. That’s the key to scaling your user base. Remember that time when Clubhouse was all the rage?

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Scale Entrepreneurship Cybersecurity PayPal 73

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Once we got to about 15 or so connections, we then started having very serious conversations with Venmo, and that was the first kind of big customer that ended up really scaling with us. When you thought of financial software, it was Mint, PayPal, and then like a few people hadn’t heard of, and that was it.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Banking Outsourced Development 80

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It isn’t just for young people or startups; anyone with a mobile device can utilize mobile payment processing because it’s so simple. In most cases, your payment software or point-of-sale (POS) will offer an app that allows you to take NFC payments from mobile wallets like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or Google Pay.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Mobile Payments Payment Services 88

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. sales tax, VAT, or GST) that needs to be collected and how those taxes get remitted.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

Baremetrics

MAY 20, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. All the data your startup needs 1 Why Use Financial Forecast Software? As your business grows, both in terms of scale and complexity, financial management becomes more challenging. Table of Contents.

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Payment Solutions Forecasting Payments SaaS Payments 87

SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. How does Harry think about when is the right time for a startup to raise VC funding? Do you have to invest in it from Day 1?

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 210

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

There are two common modes here in lead gen and peer to peer e.g. Zillow, Thumbtack, Craigslist. Unless you were a very large creator who could afford complicated and expensive enterprise software, you were likely stitching together a PayPal merchant account and a spreadsheet. Square, Styleseat, Mindbody. It’s a bit of a free for all.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 141

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some believe that capital won’t flow again until after an extinction-level event for startups in 2023/2024. While Davos , Main Street , and Wall Street may differ on scale and scope, everyone agrees that the economy is turning. The metaverse remains meta. I think PLG momentum built — and peaked — in 2022.

Software Review 119

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 119

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

This includes startup costs like website fees, too. It’s also easier to scale your shipping requirements to suit growing demand. Still, if you want to scale your business, outsourcing could be better long-term. You need to make sure your website can handle making sales. Popular options include PayPal and Stripe.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 123

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds).

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack December 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Contentful , the leading content infrastructure for digital teams, today announced $33.5 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

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Technology Scale PayPal Software Delivery 53

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Pricing for WP Engine starts at $25 per month for their Startup plan, which supports a single site. But StartUp users still have access to 24/7 live chat, as well as phone support during business hours. Like other providers, Nexcess will auto-scale your resources to meet demand. Kinsta offers a tremendous range of plans.

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Management Technical Review Outsourced Development Engineering 137

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work. Des: It would sound like you’ve gone from a scale where software companies can’t really get much bigger, and you’ve obviously come all the way down. Des: And here we are.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

It helps you strategize, generate, and monitor your campaigns, leading to brand up growth. It includes followers, engagement scale, contact, and more. Paid plans are available via an inquiry to the sales team. TRIBE is one of the leading influencer marketing software, that aims to connect global brands with micro-influencers.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Here let’s make it clear that both are the platforms for online course creation, and often placed side-by-side by businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs. Nowadays, every entrepreneur, online business company, author, startup, and trainer thinks about the creation of perfectly detailed online courses. Sales & Marketing Tools.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52