Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Over the past decade, India’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)—has become one of the most proactive regulators in the world, advancing the digitization of payments and financial services at a rapid pace. Most importantly, perhaps, was the introduction of UPI in 2016—an instant, free national mobile payment system based on Aadhaar.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. The company has invested in ride-hailing, retail, online media, and electric car makers both inside and outside China.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

And learn about their personality, their likes and dislikes, and their career. Instead, place the reason you want to renegotiate as the enemy and yourself as the person who wants to figure things out. Instead, try to reach a solution person to person. To build rapport with them , you need to get to know them first.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

We’re talking about Singles’ Day—the biggest online shopping event in the world. In 2009, Alibaba and its founder, Jack Ma, decided to turn the anti-Valentine’s Day into an ecommerce dream. To make your life easier, get an all-in-one ecommerce platform to ensure you’re capable of processing any type of transaction.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank.

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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?

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SaaS Metrics

JUNE 28, 2022

Bitcoin was launched in 2009 by the crypto investor Satoshi Nakamoto. The idea of creating a cryptocurrency was to eliminate centralized currencies as the only payment method and ensure a faster way of processing transactions. The post Top 13 Benefits of Using Bitcoin As A Payment System first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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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. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

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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? I can help you accelerate your payment.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When I invested in FreeAgent in early 2009, I found the value of an online accounting solution SO compelling that I naively believed every small business in the UK would just have to adopt online accounting. known as the layer-cake strategy). Who will leapfrog the pre-AI Cloud?

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. All companies, big and small, can use Stripe’s APIs and software to receive and process payments. A comprehensive and easy-to-integrate payment suite, perfect for enabling self-service. 6 ChargeBee.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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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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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It had been studied by researchers that four out of five companies are storing records of their customers to use them productively for the long term in their enterprise CRM data tool. It was the first CRM tool that was based on the cloud and can be used with a monthly subscription model of payments. Social CRM Market Leader: Nimble.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. The value prop is shifting from payments and ticketing to helping event creators grow their ticket sales. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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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. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Making their product accessible on their website instead of hiring an army of salespeople was a disruptive idea in the early 2000s. In the past two decades, Atlassian mastered the way their software is discovered, tried and purchased, all assisted by an automated online experience. One PLG Adopter Created Hundreds More.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

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. That has turned into a big win for Google.

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Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

Back in 2009, MailChimp introduced their Free Forever plan that allowed people to use MailChimp for free until their email list reached 100 subscribers. You might want to consider this model if you have a product where one account can have several users who each need personal access to the software. image source). Pay-as-you-go.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Loved by the WordPress community at-large, Gravity Forms is praised as the “ best contact form plugin ” for websites powered by WordPress. Born from a personal need. Prior to forming Rocketgenius, Gravity Forms’ parent company, co-founders Carl Hancock , Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut worked together developing websites for clients.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO). The USP of the company is personalized video content – leveraging video content for interactions helps businesses increase their sales.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.

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FastSpring

JUNE 12, 2019

On September 14th, 2019 all payment providers who process payments for consumers in the European Union must adhere to new requirements for authenticating online payments as part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Merchants and other players in the payments space are required to have 3D Secure 2.0

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was initially created to help users get inspiration and ideas, discover new content online, and organize and save them for later. Dribbble 2009 Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett 2. Pearltrees 2009 Patrice Lamothe, Francois Rocaboy, Alain Cohen, Samuel Tissier and Nicolas Cynober 7. Photographers use it to showcase their work.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. In a lot of larger companies, they’re completely okay with giving you two or three year payments all up front. What has changed?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. Leading commerce platform Shopify helps merchants set up and manage their business and stores across various sales channels.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. There was one other person inside the company already digging into this lever, so we connected and really hit it off. We raised a $1.5-million

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Automate : Replace a person or manual process. RightMessage started as custom code to personalize the site experience, then was shared to other sites to increase conversions and user experience, and then was productized into what we now know as a growing business. Automation Examples. Productization Examples.

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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. This has led to solutions like biometric authentication, AI-driven fraud detection, and personalized financial management tools. What is Fintech?

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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.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Metering / Billing / Payment Process. How do I target my customers when they’re not online? ” Everyone should know this; from product to sales, and from marketing to HR… if you aren’t clear on how each person contributes to the Desired Outcome of the customer, how can you say Customer Success is your Purpose?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25)

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Besides messaging and calling, users can shop online, pay bills, buy groceries, transfer money, make reservations, book taxis, and more. Launched by the Chinese technology company Sina Corporation in 2009, Sina Weibo, or simply Weibo, is, a microblogging platform that compares to Twitter and Instagram. With over  1.32

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