SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. For Stripe, again our core product is an API.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

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. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

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. What is SaaS?

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

a problem we’ve been wanting to solve for a while Payroll, the process of compensating your employees for their work, continues to be a complex and convoluted process for companies of all sizes. Payroll is a mission-critical process inside organizations but at its core, it’s essentially a data problem.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors.

New CTO 147

New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 147

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. Aileen Lee: But these are also super… I mean, you were talking about growth stage companies where they’ve got strong product market fit. They’re going to adopt the Shanghai processes.

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160