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.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Best For: Product Adoption. This is not all.

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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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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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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Note: These are written with SaaS and software products in mind, although many of the principles apply to other types of products as well. Intercom exemplified this with their CRM and messaging tool for the next-generation of SaaS and software companies. Salesforce just didn’t cut it anymore for this new breed of companies. Specialize.

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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. Virality was a huge one.

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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. There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. The four major SaaS life cycle stages we’ll cover: Pre-startup. Are we still a startup? I don’t think so.

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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? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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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. The main advantage of this model is that the revenue is very predictable. You might miss out on potential revenue by not offering pricing tiers, though. image source).

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Nowadays, everyone is after making things “Pinteresty”, and this trend is taking over all the major social media platforms. There are also other platforms, both new and old, emerging as Pinterest alternatives that are also worth checking out. Dribbble 2009 Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett 2.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

You must have come across the benefits of using a CRM into business but may be confused in choosing the best option. This guide is going to help you find the best CRM solution as we take you through all different types of CRM and how to integrate them into your business. Zendesk overtook Base to integrate it into its business.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

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. Gravity Forms went live for customers in 2009. Matson is quick to point out that the WordPress community is an integral part of Gravity Forms’ success.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. The SaaS company is responsible for maintaining databases and servers and making sure that users can access the applications from almost all devices.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2009.

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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 was the founding moment with Zylo?

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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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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) I love it. I was 23 years old.

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