Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Does your business book appointments online? An effective booking plugin can be an essential part of your business puzzle. Once you’ve read through my top choices, you’ll be able to make the best decision for your unique business needs. million times since 2009 and is available for free here. #3 Let’s get started. #1

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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. What is mobile credit card processing?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff: Yeah.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Besides it’s proven business results, this strategy helps empower end-users to get the best possible product for their needs. This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. That company would go on to be acquired by TaskRabbit, where he helped 3x core business volume as co-head of marketing. We raised a $1.5-million

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is particularly the case in startups, where the word ‘disruption’ is almost a business pitch requirement nowadays. And each serve different kinds of people (and businesses) with different needs. Word and Google Docs have a huge variety of templates and are also widely adopted and used by businesses of all different types.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

This usually comes from a sudden change of revenue or a sudden change in prices of the products or services needed to deliver on the offer. For instance, a company may need to raise prices to keep up with inflation, or a business may want to renegotiate a deal after their solution is successful. The AMPTP didn’t accept. The result?

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Panintelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Fintech , short for financial technology, uses technology to provide financial services like mobile banking, online payments, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. In summary, Fintech is transforming financial services for both consumers and businesses. What is Fintech? It aims to make financial services more accessible and efficient.

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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. How the hell does that happen? I’m proud of all that.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Alibaba and its founder, Jack Ma, decided to turn the anti-Valentine’s Day into an ecommerce dream. Tmall, an Alibaba-owned platform, is the main driver of the event, but other platforms are starting to get in on the action. What impact does it have on business? Keep reading. How did Singles’ Day start?

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

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Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

However, keep in mind that freemium comes with its challenges, and making this model work for your business might be harder than you think. Back in 2009, MailChimp introduced their Free Forever plan that allowed people to use MailChimp for free until their email list reached 100 subscribers. image source).

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. Understanding which stage your SaaS business is in can help determine the appropriate time to scale to the next phase—and do so successfully. We found ourselves asking this question in a marketing meeting not too long ago.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

CRM softwares have seen a drastic growth in the market with a rising shift towards the use of technology in business. How has the CRM software changed the business civilization? You must have come across the benefits of using a CRM into business but may be confused in choosing the best option. What Are CRM Softwares?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? The reason for that is because they have a financial discipline when they’re looking at the businesses. This is also annual payments only.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. People still need to buy things, businesses still need to function.”. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. The job market vanished overnight. This is normal.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Throughout the series we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. The few form solutions available also didn’t look like WordPress, which made it difficult to utilize on sites for customers who were only familiar with that platform. The power of community.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We just need to discover how to use these platforms to create value. The number of apps created by independent developers was steadily growing, so in 2009 the Atlassian Plugin Exchange was born, which evolved into Atlassian Marketplace by 2012. Any business user is empowered today to look up and try business software on their own.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2009. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2008.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet. Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2009. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2008.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What needs to change? What has changed?

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you are a seasoned social media marketer, a marketer looking to venture into  social media  marketing, or a business owner who wants to leverage the enormous power of social, it’s helpful to know about the most popular social media platforms out there right now. Jump to a social media platform: 1.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Technical Support.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In the last few years, we have witnessed digital wallet apps taking over the market, especially after Covid 19, and cashless payments became all the rave. Almost all of us are acquainted with the best digital wallet apps and use them daily for online shopping, bill payments, and splitting with our friends. And why would they not?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) That was the business. I love it.

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