FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

A lot of the findings are expected (there are more internet users than ever, and we’re becoming more obsessed with social media and ecommerce). We’re Personalizing Customer Experiences More Than Ever Before. But for those who have a smartphone, nearly a quarter are “almost constantly” online.

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All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the past couple of years, COVID-19 has steadily made the financial sector take 360 degrees by integrating tech to evolve buying and spending. It has been just two years and almost 150 Americans have chosen to switch from credit and cash to online digital wallets. The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. I’ll go easy on you.

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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. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses. Grew to over a hundred million dollars in revenue in five years.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

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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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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2013. GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. 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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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Point of Sale 88

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

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. It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. 3 Frontegg. This is not all.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

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Stax

AUGUST 1, 2024

Did you know that the delinquency rate for small businesses has reached a record high owing to inflation and declining revenues? One way to do that—though often overlooked—is to optimize their payment processing to reduce fees associated with credit card purchases. This applies to both in-store and online purchases.

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Stax

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Forbes , 32% of consumers use it as their primary payment method. But as great as they are for consumers, merchants know that accepting credit card payments comes with added costs in the form of processing fees. The processing fee can be a fixed value or a percentage and varies among card brands.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. When it comes to document and data collection, the future will involve fewer documents and more direct, automated connections between platforms. Liam: Yeah.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

Using the wrong metrics, using them in the wrong way, or overlooking the crucial ones can be a disaster for your business. There are so many business metrics platforms out there that it becomes hard to choose the one you actually need. By the end of the article, you will have a clear overview of both these platforms.

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GetUplift

JANUARY 19, 2023

million selling partners worldwide, Amazon is the number one source for online shopping. I can’t even remember the last time I purchased toothpaste, dishwashing liquid or detergent at a store. A personalized shopping experience One of Amazon’s greatest successes is owed to personalization. Amazon is almost instinctive.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A: I joined the company in 2013. FastSpring’s core business. FastSpring sits at the intersection of three core areas: software and subscription billing, payments, and ecommerce. We’ve mostly grown from inbound leads and were doing about $8 million in revenue…I like to call it the teenage years.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content marketing is one of the most effective methods of generating brand awareness and brand preference specifically among your ideal target audience. The purpose of this marketing strategy is to attract organic traffic to your domain, and establish your business as a trusted authority in that area. Take Baremetrics for instance.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If your eCommerce business needs an online payment processor, perhaps you're considering Stripe vs. Braintree. Online payment platforms make it possible to send and receive payments. Braintree, as well as how Baremetrics can expertly analyze data from both platforms. Table of Contents.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 59

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. Here’s Lynch’s website (now seemingly somewhat out of date) to hear his side of this story. 2020 Predictions Review.

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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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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. Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue.

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BitPay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For some context, let’s look at previous halving years: 2012 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2013 2016 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2017 2020 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2021 Why should your organization care about any of this? When the price of Bitcoin rises, spending habits change.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 2, 2019

Travis Todd is a co-founder at FullContact, but in his current role, he is fully dedicated to Contacts+ as the team’s Head of Revenue. Contacts+ has a platform with applications that are available on the web, iOS, Mac OS, and Android — and also has extensions that work with the Chrome browser along with a number of integrations.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time. 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.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. We did some hacky stuff, turning virtual assistants in the Philippines into SDRs, leveraging ToutApp (one of the first sales engagement platforms), and building web scrapers via Upwork to assemble endless leads lists.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 2, 2019

Travis Todd is a co-founder at FullContact, but in his current role, he is fully dedicated to Contacts+ as the team’s Head of Revenue. Contacts+ has a platform with applications that are available on the web, iOS, Mac OS, and Android — and also has extensions that work with the Chrome browser along with a number of integrations.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They launch a product, start bringing in some solid revenue, and put all their efforts into acquiring new customers. Understanding the top reasons why customers churn—and knowing how to adapt your approach and keep them around—is vital for keeping your SaaS business sustainable and profitable. 1: You’re attracting the wrong customers.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We were always extremely transparent about our cash in hand, our months of runway, our traffic, our revenue.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 11, 2025

Put simply, price testing is a process where you present different prices to the market in an effort to increase revenue and attract customers. For instance, ecommerce brands commonly use bundle pricing , where you create a discount for customers who buy an assortment of products in a single ordershoppers love a good bundle.

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Unbounce

JANUARY 11, 2025

Put simply, price testing is a process where you present different prices to the market in an effort to increase revenue and attract customers. For instance, ecommerce brands commonly use bundle pricing , where you create a discount for customers who buy an assortment of products in a single ordershoppers love a good bundle.

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Pricing Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

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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