SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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FastSpring

MAY 14, 2024

How Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager can help your business, plus FastSpring integration. FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Lifetime Value (LTV) is a metric that shows the average revenue generated by a customer before they churn. By calculating your customer’s LTV, you can get a better idea of how much each new customer will add to your overall revenue and how much you can justify spending on customer acquisition. In doing so, their LTV tripled.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. SaaS-struck. Where does your interest in SaaS and tech come from?

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

I want to sign up and try that service! ”. Luckily, you can take a lot of actions to influence that process and showcase your value. Or maybe the onboarding process is too complicated. The activation process solely focuses on conversion. There’s a science to SaaS pricing, and you should always be evaluating your pricing.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. After college, I went to work at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, which was my first experience in business.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. But the downturn in SaaS, at best, is uneven.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

“The idea behind it was to get creative and provide fans another multi-game option to get in the doors for each Cavs home game this season and to see the new Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and everything it has to offer," says Eric Clouse, Cleveland Cavaliers Senior Vice President of Sales and Service. And the findings were astronomical.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

Take a look at how the customer’s lifecycle (lifetime value or LTV) impacts virtually every sector of an e-commerce business. I see marketing, strategy, outreach, UX, development, product, customer service, management decision-making, sales, PPCs — basically everything that makes an e-commerce business viable.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, this company supports over +100,000 businesses nationwide. The platform is easy to use. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. Namely was founded in 2012 and currently works with over 1,200 HR leaders. Check here for details. Check here for details. Sendinblue.

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, this company supports over +100,000 businesses nationwide. The platform is easy to use. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. Namely was founded in 2012 and currently works with over 1,200 HR leaders. Check here for details. Check here for details. TeamViewer.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 10, 2024

WhatsApp has become a powerful tool for both personal connections and businesses to streamline communication and connect with customers. This messaging platform has a staggering user base of over 2.78 billion people worldwide and over 200 million businesses. Enables you with bulk contact list storage. And guess what?

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

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 your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue. The rate of change, right? Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Education has impacted both the supply of … we’re talking about the B2B SaaS entrepreneurs and the supply of investors. Maybe fifty of them are B2B SaaS. It’s become cheaper.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

But since there are so many to choose from—we’re talking Nuuly, Haverdash, Stitch Fix, the list goes on—RTR is looking to a new membership option to convince shoppers to get on board with its platform over others. Not the most original name for the service, but we’re here for it nonetheless…). They’re calling it Walmart+.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. What is SaaS?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. Replenishment.

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Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

UK online education company EdPlace has emerged as a “parent champion,” providing online tutorial services designed to help parents support their children in their education (specifically Math, English, and Science) at an affordable price. Founded in 2012, the seeds for EdPlace were planted many years before that. It’s working.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises across industries are adopting SaaS tools to modernize operations and gain an edge.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises across industries are adopting SaaS tools to modernize operations and gain an edge.

Technology 40

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. In an attempt to know more about the SaaS environment in Brazil, we have researched the best SaaS companies in Brazil and came up with a list of 20 SaaS companies in Brazil. Founded in: 2012.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The nation has produced 2,000 startups in the past decade, and a majority of these start-ups have been SaaS-driven. This has helped us come up with the list of the top 25 SaaS companies in Israel. Binah AI is one of a kind SaaS-based startup founded in Israel. Its AI platform is both easy to use and accessible.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 20, 2022

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses use a cloud-based technology distribution model to deliver software. The SaaS market is at the heart of several creative, high-growth businesses in the UK and worldwide. We have profiled a list of the top 25 SaaS companies in the UK.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Software as a Service (SaaS) is currently the most practical model of software distribution. It is the model in which a cloud service provider hosts software or application and makes them available for the end-user. The cloud service provider can either be a third party or the software vendor itself. 360Learning.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Rob Gonzalez: Yeah.

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FastSpring

APRIL 25, 2024

Pix, Brazil’s instant payment system introduced by the Central Bank of Brazil in 2020, has rapidly gained popularity among consumers as a preferred digital payment method. Director of Payments, Risk, and Compliance at FastSpring. It’s a must-have payment method in Brazil.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. Then, came integration.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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