SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2006, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte set out to define a category around financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Jason starts with the meta-question we’ve been asking a lot of SaaS leaders lately ( Klaviyo , ZoomInfo ) — ‘are we in a downturn?’ Needless to say, he succeeded.

SMB 280

SMB Payment Services Payments Payment Methods 280

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.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

Payments 126

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 126

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Customers are more likely to leave if a service no longer provides value. When you see how the subscription-based economy helps both companies and customers, it’s easy to understand why this business model is continuing to gain traction across the board. What is the subscription-based economy?

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Payments Subscription Trends 49

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Number three is not understanding their business model. If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If you take the case of Justin.tv

Sales Hiring 172

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 172

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? How does the engagement model with customer need to shift? Travis Bryant: So I was in services at a software company and then had this pivot point to go either into product management or into sales and sales engineering.

Underperforming Technical Team 169

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 169