SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2022

It brings three products into one system: all-inclusive accounts payable automation, software-enabled corporate cards, and simplified employee expense reimbursements. TripActions is the only all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense solution, providing 8,800+ customers around the globe unprecedented visibility and control over spend.

Travel 199

Travel compliance Finance Engagement 199

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But time clock software isn’t just a less clunky alternative to the physical clock. When you’re ready to implement time clock software for your company, choosing the best one will be easy with our list of the top seven time clock software options. The Top 7 Time Clock Software Options. How to Choose the Best TCS For You.

Payment Solutions 111

Payment Solutions Software Payment Services Payment Methods 111

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In many ways, the most financially average person in our modern society experiences daily luxuries that history’s Pharaohs and Caesars could not imagine: instant communication, broadcast television, global travel, antibiotics.Ok We expect this time to be no different.

AI 133

AI Travel Technology Communication 133

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Just last week, Epic Systems shared that it was using Azure OpenAI Service to integrate this next generation of AI with its industry-leading EHR software. Yesterday, Microsoft & Google announced earnings.

AI Search 187

AI Search AI Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 187

Incredo

APRIL 8, 2020

3 Company: WorkPuls , Employee Monitoring Software Workpuls created an employer’s guide to work from home to help out business owners and managers who needed to switch to remote work.

Sales Recruiting 269

Sales Recruiting Travel SaaS Sales Hiring 269

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 5, 2020

If we tally the reductions by category, travel, retail, fitness, real estate, transportation, and recruiting constitute the top 6 categories. Software startups sold to human resources, security, legal, IT, and product teams are at the bottom of the list. Aside from recruiting, these are all consumer discretionary spend categories.

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Sales Recruiting Startup Headcount Transportation 304

Buffer Resources

MARCH 26, 2024

Travel Even if you’re not a travel creator, moments captured from holidays and special trips can be helpful in your content.    Here’s a montage of moments from @sarahbmarks — not from a specific trip, but several she’s saved over many months to create a video of tips for traveling on trains. 

Social Media 96

Social Media Travel Technical Review Software Review 96

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2020

The corollary to working online will be software to improve collaboration for distributed teams. In tandem, security software spend is sure to grow. I wonder if we will get to a point where we are routinely selling and deploying costly and complicated enterprise software entirely remotely. Could we do it at $500k or $5M?

Software Review 316

Software Review Technical Review Entertainment Outsourced Development 316

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Part 2: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – Payroll with Gusto and QuickBooks Part 3: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – QuickBooks Bank Rules Part 4: How to Choose SaaS Billing Software This post – Part 1 – focuses on how to categorize your SaaS expenses properly by using QuickBooks or Xero, and what are the benefits of doing so.

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Below are some edited highlights from this year’s speakers, where they share their experiences launching products, navigating tough times, and generally running 21st century software businesses. Here, he shares his thoughts on hiring during rapid growth phases, and learning which employees are in it for the long haul.

Enterprise 92

Enterprise Travel Generative AI Sales Hiring 92

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 19, 2024

One solution that has gained some decent momentum is the utilization of SaaS (software as a service) route-planning apps. These apps use advanced algorithms and real-time data to smooth out delivery routes, lessen travel times, and eventually help driver efficiency. Let’s learn about the apps in detail: 1.

Travel 40

Travel SaaS Operational efficiency. Pricing 40

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

As an avid traveler, Vanessa identified a gap in safety for solo female travelers, especially after a challenging experience in Morocco during the pandemic. This realization led to Greether , a platform that ensures safety and provides income opportunities for female travelers worldwide. She returned to the U.S.

Technical Cofounder 68

Technical Cofounder Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 68

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2020

Business travel, new hires, and new software purchases were the top categories of budget reductions. Typically, sales leaders have reduced quota somewhere between 10-50%. 80% of respondents have paused hiring, and a similar number have reduced their budget.

Sales Hiring 269

Sales Hiring Forecasting Sales Travel 269

Audacix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With cyber threats on the rise, it's essential to follow SaaS security guidelines along with security testing tools in your software development lifecycle. This will help you to protect your applications and sensitive data that is hosted on your software applications. By doing so, you reduce the attack surface of your application.

Software Review 40

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Systems Review 40

FastSpring

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I’m a Senior Software Test Engineer at FastSpring. I realized that in telecommunications there are only two entities involved, the business side and the software side, but with ecommerce, there’s another factor, the actual buyer which I thought was a really interesting component to add. What is your role at FastSpring?

Telecommunications 86

Telecommunications Engineering Software Travel 86

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. Or a personalized email to a sales prospect.

Scale 253

Scale Blockchain Banking Machine Learning 253

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2020

For most software companies, COGs encompasses cloud hosting costs and some fraction of customer success and professional services salaries. Operating expense, or OpEx, includes the salaries the remaining employees plus marketing and selling costs, travel, food, real estate, and other expenses. The company burns $1.9M

Travel 335

Travel Cloud Startup Acquisition 335

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

We are a business travel management and a new model for corporate T&E. We are very much a different model in that we’re one platform where you have your booking travel, your consumer-like interface married to your world class travel agents all in one. We’re looking at everything we do from software to people.

Travel 173

Travel Marketing Scale Outsourcing Services 173

Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

Hi Will, COMPANY is the only all-in-one software for corporate spend, expense, and travel management. Talking with remote teams, travel is starting to ramp back up. Hey Will, is the team traveling much right now? Watch the re-write, and check out the before and after emails below! Subject: RE: follow up. Cheers, Rep. +.

Scale 79

Scale Travel Scaling Growth Marketing 79

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

” Anu does not think generative AI tools for writing software threaten the role of developers. Asked how generative AI tools might affect the jobs of software engineers and other roles, Ariel explained that it’s like anything else in tech: “You always need to adjust, definitely, if you are in tech.

Generative AI 116

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence AI Enterprise 116

Kellblog

AUGUST 13, 2019

This is a sister post to my recent one, Career Decisions: What to Look For in a Software Startup. That piece is all about what to look for when considering taking a job at a software startup. This piece is kind of the opposite: what to look out for when considering an executive job at a software startup. ” Bye Mary.

Software Review 76

Software Review Startup Sales Hiring Software 76

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The best business credit cards offer features like purchase protection, membership rewards, travel insurance, and some even pay you cash. These can come in the form of cash back, points, travel perks, and more. Examples include food, gas, or travel. Your perks will be even better when you travel with that airline.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Airlines Business Travel 145

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

The travel industry also relies on dynamic pricing to accommodate peaks and troughs, with lower prices typically offered during the off-season to fill bookings. Their dynamic pricing software, named Smart Pricing, automatically adjusts prices according to factors like location, demand, and time left to book. Who uses dynamic pricing?

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Pricing Airlines Stax 88

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Last August, Marc Andreessen wrote a great essay titled "Why software is eating the world". In his article, which got a lot of attention in the tech world, Marc explains why and how a variety of industries have been and continue to be disrupted by software. Software is eating the world, but the smartphone is pretty hungry too.

Software 131

Software Travel Mobile Communication 131

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

You can’t keep giving software away for free, so you have to get creative with other features and services. Those travel so fast from venture teams straight to founders, boards, and other VC funds. This drove adoption for those six months, leading to more startups coming out of the program and 60% graduating into paying customers.

Startup 184

Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 184

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Trying to change the tires on the bus as it’s traveling 60 miles an hour is tough - but it’s worth the investment. The bus will travel faster. These tools provide the infrastructure for startups to grow rapidly but this is an area where startups continuously underinvest.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Scale Software Travel 100

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2024

Splunk is a 20-year-old Enterprise software giant that has accomplished many things — a 2012 IPO, a $28B+ Cisco acquisition in 2023, and $3.7 Today, they’re traveling a lot more than during the pandemic and a lot less than before. billion of ARR last year, with a market cap of $25.7 They were always hybrid, though.

Enterprise 245

Enterprise Scale Sales SaaS 245

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

59% of companies are implementing software cuts. As software lovers, this one can hurt, but it makes sense when spending too much on nice-to-have tools vs. the must-haves. What are companies doing today to scale efficiently? 80% of companies are slowing hiring. Last year, many grew their workforce by 50%.

Outsourcing Services 161

Outsourcing Services Scaling Venture Capital Forecasting 161

SaaStr

MAY 31, 2021

In a small way, a few of those age 10-20 skills I did acquire from starting a tiny software company then were what carried through to whatever success I’ve had. Building Software — Not Easier. I’d like to think in this low code + API age building software is somehow easier. The travel is harder.

Sales Recruiting 324

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 324

FastSpring

JULY 22, 2020

They sell audio software, samples, DJ software, etc. It seems silly to talk about travel right now but indulge me. For those of you who love traveling and are having withdrawals with the pandemic, now may be the perfect time to put your past travel experiences to work.

Travel 81

Travel Business Software Review Advertising 81

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

They can create, curate, market, and sell their information products without needing multiple complicated software programs. If you offer services in the travel and tourism space, Booking.com is the niche marketplace for you. One advantage of Teachable is that it allows users to run the entire production process on the platform.

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service B2C Payment Services Payments 139

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

He thought about retiring and took around six months to travel, relax and check items off his bucket list. Bansal felt passionate about enhanced software delivery, the need that Harness meets for developers. The Return to the Startup Game. In 2017, Bansal sold his unicorn company AppDynamics to Cisco for $4 billion.

Sales Recruiting 197

Sales Recruiting Scale Software Delivery Travel 197

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2019

Kustomer is a customer support software business based in New York that is doing just that. Since we partnered with Kustomer six months ago, more and more companies have become our customers and benefitted from the software Brad and Jeremy have built.

Enterprise 106

Enterprise Travel Customer Support Startup 106

User Pilot

APRIL 11, 2023

According to available retention data, the media industry and professional service providers enjoy the highest average customer retention rate by industry (84%), while the travel and hospitality industries have the lowest (55%). SaaS companies generally enjoy a high retention rate, with an average CRR of about 90%. Source: ExplodingTopics.

Retention 98

Retention Automotive SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 98

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Tools + Operations We use a variety of software tools to support our team and customers. Retreats Our travel budget includes all costs involved in team gatherings like retreats and meetups.

Merchant Services 74

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 74

Incredo

JANUARY 29, 2020

It covers many categories including travel, fashion, animals, film and more. Here are a few that you can consider: Unicheck – This is a cloud-based software that’s commonly used by writers, bloggers, lawyers and editors. There are over 1 millions users of the software around the world making it an extremely dependable tool.

Software Review 328

Software Review Engineering Technical Review Branding 328

Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, that doesn’t mean that businesses should simply throw a dart at a map and travel to any startup conference. Ultimately, it’s important to weigh the costs and logistics as well as the travel and lodging costs and whether it will eat into operational hours. There are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.

Startup 52

Startup compliance Cybersecurity Healthcare 52